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I have been following Microsoft open source strategy from 3 years or so now, and they are not an exception: adaptation is a gradual process at Microsoft too.

Hank Janssen, Director of Program Management at the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center,  over these days is traveling around Europe, and yesterday we had an interesting conversation about how open source things are going at Microsoft these days.

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In reality, the Internet is more like a giant cascading multiplayer game of pachinko. You pour some balls in, they bounce around, lights flash and —usually— they come out in the right order on the other side of the world.

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For our fifth annual roundup, BusinessWeek readers nominated a record number of young entrepreneurs. Meet the 25 most impressive

Welcome to our fifth annual roundup of the country's most promising young entrepreneurs. Before we get started examining the new batch, consider this question: Who is more likely to start a business: A college student or a worker with a few decades of experience? Yep, you guessed it: the experienced worker.

It turns out it's boomers, not twentysomethings, who start the most businesses in the U.S. Over the past decade or so, the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity belongs to the 55-64 age group. The 20-34 age bracket, by contrast, had the lowest rate. That's according to a recent report by Dane Stangler, a senior analyst with the Kauffman Foundation, based on data collected from 1996 to 2007. It echoes research by entrepreneur-turned-academic Vivek Wadhwa, who found that twice as many tech entrepreneurs create ventures in their 50s as do those in their early 20s.

So not only are these entrepreneurs navigating the toughest economy many of us have ever lived through, they're also vastly outnumbered by older, more experienced competitors, who usually have more contacts and capital. That's even more reason to continue to give young entrepreneurs the encouragement, respect, and awe that they've received since becoming cultural icons during the dot-com boom.

Stangler says he's not suggesting young people aren't entrepreneurial or won't be. "The cachet of large, established companies has taken a hit. Job tenure has been falling for a long time. Employment is not going to recover in the very near future. People across all age groups are going to take the future into their own hands."

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Basic Networking How To on Open Solaris

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

السلام عليكم

قمت امس بتنصيب OpenSolaris جنباً إلى جنب مع Windows XP  و كانت عملية التنصيب سلسلة بدون مشاكل او تعقيدات فى التعامل مع القرص الصلب Hard Disk  كما كنت اظن (مثل تجربة سابقة سيئة مع لينكس فيدورا عند بداية ظهوره) خصوصاً اننى قمت بعملية التنصيب على قرص صلب اخر Another Hard Disk مع نظام المفات الذى طالما قرأت عنه ZFS

واجهت مشكلتين فقط و إن شاء الله يتم حلهم سريعاً المشكلة الاولى كانت عدم ظهور سولاريس ضمن خيارات ال Boot Menu  و لم اجد طريقة تعمل بالبحث فى جوجل حيث ان الطرق التى قرأتها لا تناسب المبتدئين فى عملية التنصيب لاول مرة فلا تعلم كيف تتعامل مع الموقف

المشكلة الثانية غريبة جداً  فالمفترض انك تضع كلمة مرور لل root  عند التنصيب و تقوم بانشاء مستخدم افتراضى بعد التنصيب و بعدما قمت بالخروج من جلسة العمل Session  للمستخدم الحالى لم اتسطع استخدام اى حساب للدخول بالرغم من معرفتى ان حسابات المستخدمين حساسة للاحرف Case Sensitive  إلا اننى لم استطع استخدام اى حساب

على كل التجربة فى مجملها جيدة و ان شاء الله احل مشكلة ال Boot لابدأ فى استخدام سولاريس

Yesterday I Got The Following Email From Yahoo Team , I Think The Tough Economy Affected Yahoo Policy Toward Their Customers (No One Can Blame Them)

Dear Yahoo! Briefcase user,
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If you are a Yahoo! Briefcase Premium subscriber, your current subscription will be canceled on March 30, 2009. We will refund the unused portion of your Premium subscription, if any. The refund will appear as a credit via the billing method we have on file for you. So please make sure that your billing information is correct and up-to-date. For more information, please visit https://billing.yahoo.com.
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We appreciate your being a Yahoo! Briefcase user.
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Yahoo! Customer Support

Microsoft Egypt Has Launched http://imaginecupegypt.com/ For Young Egyptian Participate In ImagineCup Competition , The Site Offer Both Offline and Online Training , Registration Is Free

From The Most Funny And Most Expressed Things I've Seen About Programming Languages

http://compsci.ca/blog/if-a-programming-language-was-a-boat/

The World’s Premier Student Technology Competition

"I wish there had been an Imagine Cup when I was growing up. It gets people involved in seeing that software is changing the world."

--Bill Gates                       
Chairman, Microsoft Corp.

Everything that the world may become "someday" lies in the hands of young people today. As they look at the road ahead, their close relationship with technology enables them to dream in ways we never have before. Put the two together, and you have young minds holding the tools that can make their vision a reality.
This is the recipe that inspired Microsoft to create the Imagine Cup. What begins with a burst of inspiration and a lot of hard work can become a future software breakthrough, a future career, or a flourishing new industry. The Imagine Cup encourages young people to apply their imagination, their passion and their creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world – today. Now in its sixth year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real world issues.
Open to students around the world, the Imagine Cup is a serious challenge that draws serious talent, and the competition is intense. The contest spans a year, beginning with local, regional and online contests whose winners go on to attend the global finals held in a different location every year.  The intensity of the work brings students together, and motivates the competitors to give it their all. The bonds formed here often last well beyond the competition

Imagine Cup Official Web Site

I Was So Pleased To See That Egyptian Students Won Places From 7Th to 10Th Place In This Global Competition

Oracle Announces the Winners of the 2008 Oracle Academy Global Data Modeling Competition - MarketWatch

What Is Fishbone Diagram ?

When Should Fishbone Be Used ?

How Is Fishbone Diagram Constructed ?

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Pareto principle

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The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Business management thinker Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy went to 20% of the population. It is a common rule of thumb in business; e.g., "80% of your sales comes from 20% of your clients."

Pareto principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia