Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.

Chances are that if you're a network operator you know the IP address 4.2.2.2. It's an easy to type and easy to remember address, which since 1998 has been a "beefy" DNS service responding to the public Internet. Since you need DNS before you can use anything other than IP addresses on the Internet, it can come in handy for testing or initial configuration. Before Google started doing public DNS service on 8.8.8.8, and because 4.2.2.2 is typically pretty fast, many people have used it as their standard DNS server. Since the most basic test of Internet connectivity you can do is to ping an IP address (with DNS disabled), a "ping -n 4.2.2.2" can tell you if your networking problem is at a higher level or a lower level right away. Is this just an accident, or was this a deliberate choice? Was it intentionally set up as a public DNS service, or an accident. I've wondered this for years. But just recently I was investigating a networking oddness reported by Kyle who uses this, and I decided to try to dig deep and find out the story behind whatI imagine is one of the most famous IP addresses on the public Internet.

We recently posted a article entitled, Switching from Microsoft Office to Openoffice.org. We hope by now you have downloaded this great free office suite and that the migration went smoothly. The following article will further help you migrate, but this time concentrating only on the similarities between Microsoft Word and Openoffice.org Writer. These similarities are divided into basics, mid-level and advanced tasks.

The SIF Certification Program has been designed to certify SIF-enabled software applications. A SIF-certified application is one that meets the conformance requirements and has been certified as conformant through the SIF certification program. As a condition of participation in the program, the applicant must warrant and represent that their product meets the applicable conformance requirements, which include conformance to the applicable SIF Implementation specification(s) as interpreted by SIFA from time to time, and a passing result from a current version of the SIF-approved test suite(s).