Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

Elgg Community Support and Development Forum

Posted: December 10, 2008 in Community, Elgg, Open Source, Social Networking
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Please come check out the new….. Elgg Community Support and Development Forum at  ElggForum.com Please help me by posting a message elsewhere… everywhere… and help spread the word about this new totally OPEN community of sharing….. If this new community takes off… and does some good…. it will benefit us all. Thanks, Bruce Bruce Wagner [...]

Super Easy install of Elgg – rated the number one open source social networking software

Posted: December 9, 2008 in Community, Elgg, Open Source, Social Networking
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UPDATE: (Dec 10, 2008)  I’ve now created a new Elgg Community Support and Development Forum Mind you, I am an Absolute Beginner with Elgg…. But I just wanted to point this out…. I’ve discovered that GoDaddy.com hosting provides something called ‘Quick Install Apps’….. It’s a free service…. And ELGG is one of their Quick Install [...]

‘One Laptop per Child’ to Switch from Linux to Windows?

Posted: June 4, 2008 in Consumer Issues, Free Software, Internet Freedom, Issues, Life, Linux, Open Source, Technology, Ubuntu, Windows, Windows XP, XP
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As posted to our Ubuntu users Meetup forum, by Jay: One Laptop Per Child may eventually switch from GNU/Linux to Windows http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2008/04/23/sigh/ It seems like locking kids minds into proprietary frames still remains a priority for the educators. So here is…  My email correspondence with OLPC just now… ____ To: press@racepointgroup.com Is it true that [...]

Free Yourself from the Proprietary Corporate Greed of ‘Big Brother’: Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Posted: May 28, 2008 in Asus, Consumer Issues, Copyright, Entertainment, Free Software, Google, Intellectual Property, Internet Freedom, Life, Linux, Media, Media Center, Microsoft, Money, Movies, Music, News, Open Source, Personal, Photography, Photos, Random, Technology, Television, Thoughts, Ubuntu, Video, Vista, Windows, Windows Media Center, Windows XP, Writing, XP
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Always choose the superior Open Source Free Software. Now, there is an equivalent or superior Free Open Source version of all the best software that exists. Do you use Ubuntu Linux on your PC and laptop yet? Google does.  Did you know that Google’s search engines are all running 100% on Linux?  Not Windows.  Not [...]

Yet Another Reason to NOT buy Vista

Posted: May 22, 2008 in Consumer Issues, Entertainment, Free Software, Internet Freedom, Life, Linux, Media, Media Center, Microsoft, Movies, Music, News, Open Source, Technology, Television, Ubuntu, Vista, Windows, Windows Media Center, Windows XP, XP
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…as if we needed one. Microsoft’s Media Center Does Not Record Television Shows from NBC Microsoft has come out with an astounding admission, courtesy of Greg Sandoval at CNet News: “Microsoft included technologies in Windows, based on rules set forth by the (Federal Communications Commission),” a Microsoft spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. [...]

Ubuntu Linux is More Than Twice as Fast as Windows XP — Latest Performance Benchmarks

Posted: May 22, 2008 in Consumer Issues, Free Software, Internet Freedom, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Technology, Ubuntu, Windows, Windows XP, XP
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Ubuntu is 2.3 times Faster than Windows XP, acording to the latest performance benchmarks. ~ Free yourself from the closed proprietary ‘Big Brother’ of Microsoft, Apple, etc. Choose  Open Source Free Software. Are you using Ubuntu Linux on your home computer yet?  Do you use Google?  Did you know that the Google search engine you [...]