Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya

(This page has been used for base discussion on 15/02/07.)
Status: Archived.

Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya

Projects

Past Activities

• Linux Install Fest

Current Activities

• Workshops
  • Server Administraion
    How to create your own web site
  • Advance: Linux Kernel Customization and Compilation

• Talks
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Customization
  • Samba Administration
  • (Proposed) Intermediate: Shell Scripting
    Creating your own shell script
  • (Proposed) Advance: Introduction on Load-Balancing Cluster
• Folding@Malaysia Distributed Computing Project
  Info: Folding@Malaysia, Stanford University’s Folding@Home
  keyword: awareness, distributed computing
  • Collaboration with Red Crescent Society during Blood Donation Drive
  • Set up booth and flyers for donator
• TULIP – The ULtimate Intranet Project
  Intended to be used for students usage.
  Currently develop towards bringing internet usage to intranet.
  Owner: Mr. Mohd Nazri Ramliy
  • Hostel Committee Bulletin Board
  • Jabber Instant Messaging Chat server
  • Hostel servers directory, indexing and search engine
  • Source code revision control
    • Goal: for hostel collaboration on programming projects and final year projects

• Open Source & Creative Commons Awareness
  • Talks by Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd.

Hosted Students Projects

• Multimedia University Bulletin Board RSS

Merchandises

• Linux Special Interest Group T-Shirt

Linux Special Interest Group Cyberjaya Branch Members List

Linux Special Interest Group Cyberjaya Branch members list prior to Friday, 2 February 2007.
Names below are the member’s respected Yahoo! Messenger (ym) ID.

Legend: cyber = Cyber Tracker, belmig = Belmig Tracker, lyn = Lowyat.NET.

1. syazli7
2. vrx02
3. syazhani
4. d_zul99
5. sam_ng
6. cannonball_2000my
7. bobhandburry
8. Lancerdragoon @ cyber
9. megat_nice_guyz
10. mcvities @ cyber a.k.a. totoro @ belmig
11. AswaD AzroY @ cyber . ym: shinodashadow69
12. razgriz @ cyber
13. deadcold @ cyber
14. trompowsky @ lyn
15. aizad02
16. Invince_Z @ cyber
17. yoshikuni @ cyber
18. Kimz @ cyber
19. thina_as
20. xraccer
21. mcflurrry_oreo
22. fredo @ cyber
23. zakisy
24. final_zenith
25. paan_zx85
26. timljh @ cyber
27. shredder_ex
28. faizulzone @ cyber

If you want to run Microsoft’s new Vista operating system on a Mac using Parallels Desktop for Mac, you’re going to have to buy the Enterprise or Ultimate editions. Parallels’ Ben Rudolph recently posted about the issue on the official Parallels Virtualization Blog.

With the release of Vista, Microsoft has reworded its End User License Agreement (EULA) to forbid the use of Vista Home Basic and Home Premium Editions with virtualization products like Parallels and VMware. Macworld has confirmed the information with a Microsoft spokesperson.

“USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system,” reads the EULA.

That doesn’t preclude Vista Home editions from being installed on Macs running Boot Camp, however, since Boot Camp isn’t a virtualization or emulation technology — instead, it makes Windows run natively on the Mac. For now, however, Boot Camp is still in beta development, and still officially works only with Windows XP.

Meanwhile, the EULA included with Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions allows that operating system software to be installed on virtual or emulated hardware systems.

“In short, this means that if you’re a user and you want to run Vista virtually, you MUST buy the highest end versions of Vista, or you’ll be in violation of the Microsoft EULA,” writes Rudolph.

“Most customers using this technology are primarily business users addressing application compatibility needs, or technology enthusiasts,” said a Microsoft spokesperson. “So virtualization will be supported in Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate and Vista Business SKUs. Home users have rarely requested virtualization and so it will not be supported in Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium SKUs.”

The issue for users is price: Microsoft sells its Home editions of Vista for $199 or $239, while Business and Ultimate editions cost $299 and $399 respectively.

“To me, this strategy could hold back users who embrace cutting-edge technologies like virtualization, which means they won’t upgrade to Vista. This means that Microsoft has effectively lost an upgrade customer (in the case of Windows PCs) or an entirely new customer (for Mac and Linux users),” writes Rudolph.

Source : Macworld