All your friends and business partners run Microsoft Office and you cannot afford to have any blunders when reading their documents. Likewise, you don't want to have your presentations all garbled up when you import them from Impress to PowerPoint. What about Office 2007? What about macros in your Excel sheets?

Looking for a quick and easy way to set up a Web-based photo gallery? Consider GMPhoto. This application lets you create a snazzy Web-based photo album literally in a matter of minutes.

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Debian Lenny. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.

Microsoft uses Novell as a promoter in the O'Reilly Media Gov 2.0 Summit

Just as Microsoft has being accused of playing dirty over sales tactics and patents, the software company has launched its first open source organization. The CodePlex Foundation aims to act as a liason between commercial enterprises and open source developers and communities while increasing open source participation, says the foundation.

Seriously, the "Days of our Lives" writers couldn't come up with this stuff if they tried. Just when everything was starting to seem all warm and fuzzy between Microsoft and the open-source community, this week brought so many twists and turns that it was difficult to keep up.

Open source software developer Red Hat Inc., riding a six-fold uptick in partner membership, recently bolstered its channel program by adding a new top tier, three specializations and a raft of sales, marketing and technical benefits.

Microsoft is Microsoft. The Codex Foundation claims that it 'will complement existing open source foundations and organizations, providing a forum in which best practices and shared understanding can be established by a broad group of participants, both software companies and open source communities.' I don't believe it for a minute.