Posted by: Kat on: Sunday, 28 September 2008
I’ve decided to take what I’ve learned and put it into a tutorial. But just so you know, these things aren’t new. I’m just compiling information from other sources and presenting them here for other Wind users’ benefit. A more apt title for this post would be “How I Got Ubuntu 8.04.1 Running on the [...]
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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: [...]
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. [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 26 June 2008
clipped from blogs.zdnet.com
After months of rumors that Microsoft might rethink its decision to pull the plug on Windows XP, the� official word is out: XP is on its way out.
Microsoft is sticking to its plan to cease providing PC makers with XP to preload on new PCs after June 30, as Microsoft is now letting [...]
