Posts Tagged ‘ open source ’

Time to upgrade your WordPress installations. Need help? Let me know. Just FTP a backup to your pc, and backup the MySQL database, then hit the upgrade automatically button in the WordPress Dashboard and you’re away. Be patient while it ticks along. So, what’s new? According the the official WordPress.org blog, these are the...
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WordPress, the most popular open source blogging platform, has just introduced its new piece of software, BuddyPress. WordPress describes BuddyPress as a sister to WordPress, although it actually requires the WPMU (WordPress Multi-user) version of Wordpres to run. The idea is that website owners can easily build their own social networking sites. Rather than...
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Today the might Sun Microsystems announced that it will be cutting up to 6000 jobs to reduce costs to help counter falling sales. It has been hit hardest with a reduction in sales of servers to the financial sector, and has lost market share to other big computer chip players. 6000 job losses represents...
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As part of my ongoing self education of the internet and computers in general, I have just installed the open source operating system, Linux, onto my old Athlon 1Ghz pc. I chose Ubuntu (version 7.04) as I was advised that it is a very “newbie” friendly distribution. It was a breeze to install, there...
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The much loved Digg-style CMS, Pligg, has announced that it is for sale. Many website owners have installed the Pligg CMS to build web communities, to share stories and videos. As the Pligg code is currently open source, meaning that everyone is free to download it, and tinker with it, to make their own...
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