Occasionally, a Linux Kill command is what you need to terminate an application. This happened to me last night. I was trying to re-run Firefox 3.0 after it had crashed. I was getting an unusual error which I’ve never witnessed before. I wished I had taken a screenshot of the error since I can’t remember [...]
The open-source community have spoken. The winners of the Sourceforge.net 2008 Community Awards were announced and OpenOffice.org and phpMyAdmin grabbed more than one category. This year’s nomination were left open to any project or repository. 17 of the finalists were hosted outside of Sourceforge.net. The winners are:
2008 Community Choice Awards Winners
Best Project - OpenOffice.org
Best Project [...]
Yesterday, CherryPal introduced a low cost cloud computer called CherryPal, powered by open-source Debian Linux. The unit sells for $249 available at the end of July. The unit is about the size of a paperback and only weighs 10.5 ounces. It’s perfect for people who just want to browse the web, check for email or [...]
Dell recently started selling Linux laptops and desktops. I can’t understand why it took a better of four months to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu 8.04 release also known as Hardy Heron. Ubuntu 8.04 was released back in April 2008 by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Dell is now making the latest release available on [...]
I came across an article documenting how to install a ProFTP server that uses MySQL virtual users instead of real system users allowing up to thousands of FTP users on a single machine. The instructions include the installation of ProFTP, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin, the latter is a web administration tool for the MySQL database. It’s [...]
Adeona is a Roman goddess of safe returns. It’s appropriate that a new open software service under GPLv2 is named after it. Adeona is an Open Source system for tracking the location of lost or stolen laptops. It does not require a proprietary or central service, [...]
I just saw this announcement today regarding a deal between Microsoft and Netflix. In the very near future, Netflix subscribers will be able to view Netflix Watch Now streaming movies from their Xbox 360 systems. This service is not available with the current Xbox 360 now, but will be included in the upcoming XBox system [...]
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox.
List of Features:
Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds
Newspaper feed rendering customizable via style sheets
Feed Discovery
Integrates with Firefox’s bookmark system
Imports and exports OPML feed lists
Support for a number of locales: Argentine Spanish, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, [...]
Introducing my latest WordPress theme called Black Green. It’s simple, ultra-minimal and uses an Ajax Accordion script. The theme is a spin of the Black-Letterhead theme, but it’s more elegant and simpler. See the Accordion script in action by clicking between the Articles and Archives links. Enjoy.
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