A UBS Investment Research report based on industry rumors says that Bell and Telus are moving from CDMA to "GSM like" technology.

I do most of my work using ssh and other command line tools, such as vim and screen. This is the environment I am most comfortable and productive in.

However, this is not always an option working on client sites. Some do not have ssh enabled for various reasons, including hosting restrictions (e.g. shared hosting) or security concerns and workplace policies.

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote an article for Linux Magazine on DrupalCamp Toronto 2008.

Another scam that claims one has won half a million Euros and a new Audi Car. None of that is true of course.The usual "keep it confidential" clause is there.

From:    online notification <ophrat@012.net.il>
Reply-to    uwaplpnp1@yahoo.es
To    undisclosed-recipients
Date    Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:50 AM
Subject    MAIL

Dear Winner,

This is another scam, capitalizing on the building boom in the United Arab Emirates. The scammer claims that there is excess money due to contract over estimation, and wants a reliable person to help with the bank transfers.

None of that is true of course ...

Date:   22 Jun 2008 12:00:09 -0000
From:  "ali " <alimohammed07@rediffmail.com>
To:  alimohammed07@rediffmail.com
Subject:   From The Desk of Mr. ali mohammed

According to the CBC gadget early adopters are arrogant.

Moreover they quote a study:

In a study earlier this year, Mindset found that people who bought
Apple Inc.'s Macintosh computers to be more liberal and open-minded,
but also exhibiting traits of superiority.

Here is an overview of the study.

Everyone who is in the tech field must have checked the Dilbert at some point. For those who are working in large corporations, they can draw parallels between what is on the comic and what they see around them at the work place.

Other tech oriented comics are xkcd and User Friendly, which is Canadian by the way.

Fellow Toronto DUG member Rob Loach, , committed the 120,000 th commit to Drupal's CVS on June 6, 2008.

Several notable news items on the Xdebug front lately. As many of us know, Xdebug is a remote debugger and profiler for PHP applications, including Drupal. Many IDE's support Xdebug, such as ActiveState's Komodo, and Eclipse with PHP's extension.

This is a classical scam promising a lot of money for a too-good-to-be-true job for little work. The scam centers on the victim getting a cheque and asked to cash it and wiring the bulk of it and keep the difference for "testing the wire transfer service".

The RCMP have uncovered a widespread cheque scam that attempts to lure consumers with promises of jobs as secret shoppers.