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Ooh, shiny…

Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 3 September 2008

I’m writing this post from Google Chrome. Can I just say how happy I am, that although it probably resembles Vista more, the title/tab bar reminds me of Ubuntu? *sniff*
I first read about Chrome this morning, when a co-worker brought it up. I had a lot of fun reading the comic (learned a lot, too), [...]

CMS’s and work so far

Posted by: Kat on: Saturday, 30 August 2008

One of our consultants installed two FOSS Content Management Systems in his own server so we could play around with them. Here are the notes I took while doing just that:

MODx: Manager users cannot log in from the front; Web users can’t log in from the back. Moderators/Admins need both a Manager and a Web account.
WordPress: [...]

Do I really need an OS?

Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Recently, I read some posts (1 and 2) by Larry Dignan on ZDNet. He had this to say:
The OS will never be totally irrelevant, but it will be increasingly less important. It’ll be plumbing.
He also introduced me to the idea of “the Webtop, which will deliver programs through the browser.”
Actually, the idea doesn’t surprise me. [...]

Resources for the web church + a dream discussion group

Posted by: Kat on: Saturday, 9 August 2008

A few posts back, I mentioned that I’d started work for the website of a local church. While on the job, I found a bunch of sites that were a great help to me, so I decided to share them:
The Internet Ministry Conference – site of an annual conference on, well, Internet ministry. Contains schedules, [...]

ARGH.

Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 16 June 2008

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve tried to download the Xubuntu alternate ISO. I’ve tried downloading through Firefox’s download manager, a different download manager, and through Transmission (the bittorrent client that  came with Hardy Heron), and for some reason, I can’t get one with the right hash. :(
See, we’re trying to breathe life [...]