Newsforge is running a story about the realities of using OS Commerce, the open source shopping cart/e-commerce package. It describes the pluses and minuses fairly well: NewsForge | OSCommerce in action
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🕑Jun 03, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Running Windows is more risky than ever
The Register is running a story today about a botnet--a network of compromised computers--that is under the control of hackers. Is your computer one of the bots? For a surprising number of people, the answer could be yes.
🕑Jun 03, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Open Source Timesheet program
Lots of people have been looking for a good timesheet program. Here's one I just stumbled upon. Timesheet.php Homepage. It's available on Sourceforge, under the GPL.
🕑May 26, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Digital Music: Who Benefits?
Continuing on the thought-stream I started last week...
🕑May 24, 2005 🖋John Locke
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What's a Wiki?
If you haven't paid attention, the World Wide Web has been changing dramatically over the past few years. It used to be that if you wanted to create a web site, you either had to learn the basics of HTML, or spend a few hundred dollars on a web development tool. Or hire a designer to put one together for you.
Every time you want to add new content to your web site, you'd have to go back to your tools, add a new page, update all of the site navigation, or pay another fee to your web designer.
Those days are history. Thanks to a variety of different content management systems, you can easily add new content to your web site with no technical knowledge whatsoever.
🕑May 23, 2005 🖋John Locke
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A premier open source portal: Metadot
Joining the ranks of Sharepoint Portal Server, Plone, Mambo, PostNuke, and hundreds of other portal systems, is the open source Metadot Portal Server.
🕑May 19, 2005 🖋John Locke
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The future of digital music
Why pay for something you can get for free? Many reasons:
🕑May 14, 2005 🖋John Locke
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How Linux Could Overthrow Microsoft
Interesting article about the open source and free software movements in the MIT Technology Review. While the author generalizes a little bit too much, he makes some interesting arguments.
🕑May 14, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Clearing the Active Directory hurdle
Can you tell I have posts stacked up to write? Taking a bit today to post some links I've stumbled across in the past few weeks.
🕑May 14, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Digital Knowledge is power
Where do you get your information? Seth Godin wrote a very interesting post about The New Digital Divide.
🕑May 14, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Linux.com | Using a Linux failover router
Technical note: here's how to configure a Linux router to handle multiple Internet connections, providing automatic redundency should your primary Internet connection goes down: Linux.com | Using a Linux failover router.
🕑May 14, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Software Project Management Tool: Trac
Stumbled across this project management system recently, an open source web-based system called Trac. Developed by Edgewall Software, Trac is a Wiki-based system complete with task management, bug tracking, and milestone tracking.