Slashdot:

Qt, the highly polished, well documented, modern GUI toolkit owned by Nokia will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5! … [Nokia] want to encourage and stimulate the use of Qt Everywhere. This is fantastic news for all commercial developers looking to create cross-platform applications …

Wikipedia:

Qt is most notably used in KDE, Opera, Google Earth, Skype, Qtopia, Adobe Photoshop Album, VirtualBox and OPIE.

Really good news for KDE project and fans.

One of Drupal’s best features is the modular design, the core of Drupal is very small but flexible, and it only implements basic functionality.

The good news is that Drupal already has hundreds of modules to implement any missing feature, you can even build your own module if you didn’t find a module to fulfill your needs.

But having all these choices make finding the appropriate module a really hard job, to help you select the best Drupal modules I found a good list of module at Acquia (a commercial company founded by Drupal inventor Dries Buytaert to provide different services around Drupal).

nginx [Engine X] became the world 4th most popular web server, according to the latest Netcraft survey.
It is an event based web server, which makes really scalable especially for static files, so if you are serving many images, audio files, video, you might consider it.
It can also configured to work as HTTP and mail proxy.
Of course you should look also at Lighttpd [Lighty] which work with the same principle, and I have been using it for around 2 years for alriyadh.com

More update will come 🙂

via: reddit

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It seems that Al Madina daily newspaper is using drupal fro their newspaper website, really nice.

al-madina.com

FreeBSD my favorite OS, has an official web based discussion forum:

http://forums.freebsd.org/

Congratulations, an good job.

It seems to me FreeBSD is getting easier everyday.

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Only 14% of IP addresses are left, which is estimated to be used in 811 days which is around 2 years!!

Does that mean the Internet as we know it will stop growing? yes exactly, if we ran out of IP addresses you can not connect your new game console, phone, notebook, etc... to the Internet.

Scientists has found many solutions to delay this problem, including “classless network”, and NAT, which allowed us to use the IP address space more efficiently.