Open Source Web

Setup Open Source Systems in a Snap

No Comments 18 October 2007

In todays times, if you’re hosting your website in the public domain with a web host, it’s most likely that you will have some sort of platform already setup for you where you can just copy the files from the open source application of your choice’s website straight to the file space setup for you [...]

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TEDglobal2007 Talk Take aways from 27Dinner Cape Town

1 Comment 02 September 2007

Even though were packed together like your names on the tag cloud on Your Web AddiCT(s); community page. The TYFYC community Your Web AddiCT was not like Kahlil Gibrand this time round and said more than one sentence. Here goes a quick recap (of some) of the ideas and concepts experieced at TEDGlobal2007 and the [...]

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Open Source Web

Linux alternative to Microsoft Surface enroute

3 Comments 17 July 2007

Miguel blogged about Microsoft’s Surface multi-touch computer interface. Found out about the Linux alternative beeing called MPX or Multi-Pojnter X, on Tectonic Open Source news, that is still in the early phases of development. Some interesting bits… The software is still in development and there are a ton of bugs to fix according to Hutterer. [...]

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Open Source Web

Bizcommunity gets RSS right.

9 Comments 22 May 2007

First they (Bizcommunity) beefed up their RSS by allowing your to subscribe to category specific RSS feeds. Subscribing to Bizcommunity RSS feed was a pain though, until today. The Bizcommunity Web Developers are our neighbours at the Bandwidth barn, the office is right accross from the VeloCITI office, so payed them a visit and transferred [...]

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Innovation, Open Source Web

Ubuntu coming to Dell desktops & notebooks

1 Comment 02 May 2007

As you know, finding a notebook with any Linux distro in South Africa or without Windows pre-installed is easier said than done. Read this on the Direct 2 Dell blog : As part of an overall effort to update our Linux program, today we are announcing a partnership with Canonical to offer Ubuntu on select [...]

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Open Source Web

Kubuntu 7.04 – Is the the Linux distro for those coming from a Windows background

1 Comment 25 April 2007

ZDnet reports: The other day I posted a question which asked “Which is best – Ubuntu or Kubuntu?” Interestingly one of the most popular replies that I got was “it depends.” With this phrase in mind I decided to take Kubuntu for a spin and see for myself which I preferred. read more | digg [...]

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Africa, Blogging, Cape Town, Innovation, Open Source Web

Meeting 2 Web Guru’s & …

1 Comment 23 April 2007

Your Web AddiCT(s); were fortunate to meet some Internet Legends, Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales (pic on the right) and Prof. Larry Lessig of Creative Commons on Friday at the iCommons ccSalon at the Armchair Theatre in Observatory. We asked Jimmy Wales & Prof Larry Lessig about TED as they are both TEDsters. They both raved [...]

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Open Source Web

10 things you didn’t know about open source

No Comments 21 April 2007

One of the world’s leading advocates of the open source software movement, Brian Bahlendorf gave a talk at the Digital Freedom Expo at the University of the Western Cape on Thursday, entitled “Ten things you may not know about open source”. Open Source predates proprietary software Apache kept the Web flat and free Open SSL [...]

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Africa, Blogging, Open Source Web

Translation Help Please, again.

4 Comments 20 April 2007

We got this Trackback from from the mawazo na mahaidha blog on the Blogging is Dead ‘mashup’ Help translate it please. alianza kwa kusema Hip Hop is Dead kisha wanablogu wa Afrika Kusini wakamnukuu kwa undani sana na Blogging is dead sasa kati ya watu wote wale mwandishi Paul Graham – yule aliyetufunza mengi kuhusu [...]

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