Anonymous Reader writes “You just finishing converting your servers to Linux, but now want to get the corporate MS Access database into a MySQL database. How do you do that? Well, In this short tutorial we are going to show how to convert an MS Access database into a MySQL database. To accomplish this task we are going to use a script written by Brian Andrews, that converts Access tables into MySQL tables. So let’s get started.

From USA Today: “The once-dependable police radio is literally being drowned out by a torrent of information-age services, such as wireless phones and instant messaging, that have made mobile communications available to millions of Americans. Even as police, fire and emergency medical services upgrade to pricey new radio systems, dozens of agencies — including those in Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Denver; and Miami — face increasing interference from more powerful commercial wireless services.”

“Hasty approval of a revised contract with VeriSign could do lasting damage to ICAAN’s reputation, a series of passionate speakers said Monday at a public ICANN forum. “This new agreement came as a surprise,” said Philip Sheppard, an ICANN business constituency representative. “It cannot be accepted without providing due time for the Internet community to comment.”” Full story at Wired News.

Scott McNeil of the Free Standards Group tells us: “Today the Free Standards Group is announcing the release of the LDPS 1.1.”

In a nutshell the LDPS 1.1 allows for the greatest portability of
application development across the largest number of popular Linux
distributions.

Other events happening at the Free Standards Group include:

* The Linux Standards Base, www.linuxbase.org, is now moving forward
  at a good pace. With engineering support from the open source
  development community along with IBM, Intel, Oracle, Red Hat,
  Caldera, SuSE, and others, version 0.6 was released last week
  and are looking forward to a complete version 1.0 this year.

* Though our internationalization standards effort, Li18nux,
  www.li18nux.net, we are about to launch a certification
  program with Red Hat 7.0 as our pilot distribution. This will
  be followed by all the major and several regional distributions
  which have already signed up to be certified.

* By unanimous vote George Kraft of IBM has been elected LSB Technical
  Committee Chair. George is a software engineer who has been working
  with Linux since 1993 and on the LSB since 1999. George is one of
  the unsung champions of open source within IBM.

* I'm still the "unofficial" Executive Director of the Free Standards
  Group... ;)


Thanks for your support.

Scott
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Scott McNeil
Free Standards Group
www.freestandards.org

LWN.net posts the latest edition of the GNUStep developers’ weekly e-mail newsletter.

A press release at LWN.net mentions that MontaVista and ITT are working together to build a new wireless communications service. Described as “ultra-capable,” the new service will use MontaVista’s Hard Hat Linux to power the multiple StrongARM processors at the heart of the system.

It’s down to the wire: Music trading service Napster has until Wednesday to stop its users from swapping copyright-protected songs. The Recording Industry Association of America has sent the company a list of over 135,000 songs it claims are being traded in violation of Napster’s own Terms of Service. Full story at CBC.

ZDNET commentary: ‘Although there is an advantage to customers in that they can use the source code to see why an API does not work as documented and
then code around this, the benefit to Microsoft is much greater. It
gains access to the huge resources of its enterprise customers’ IT
teams, which essentially become little more than glorified Windows
bug testers. “Perhaps,” fussed the Furball, “this ‘look but don’t touch’
scheme could be used as the basis for a new standards body known
as almostopen.org.””

ZDNET: “If you believe what you read on Slashdot, we’re rapidly approaching a desktop Linux revolution.
But whether or not Linux some day shatters our desktop Windows, you need only glance into
any school, home or workplace to see that the day of Linux mascot Tux the Penguin’s desktop
dominion is not today-and won’t be tomorrow, either.”

Patrick Mullen writes “While many distributions strive for cutting-edge versions of software, TurboLinux has chosen to strive for stability. TurboLinux 6.1 delivers just that, as the Duke of URL found in their review of TurboLinux Workstation Pro 6.1.”