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Encrypted Contact Form for WordPress

07-Dec-06

Zirona OpenSource Consulting has created a plugin for WordPress that provides encryption capabilities to the contact form on your blog.
It is called Subrosa, and it is designed to work with all WordPress contact forms. I successfully set it up with Contact Form ][. To see what it looks like go to my [...]

Don’t Buy a Zune

26-Nov-06

Microsoft’s new music player – the Zune – has received a scathing review in the Chicago Sun-Times. The review is so scathing that it makes for an entertaining read – even if you have no interest in music players.
The Zune is so hampered by DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) that it doesn’t work with three [...]

Ubuntu Wins Most User Friendly Linux Distribution Award

23-Nov-06

I’m a big fan of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution. It recently won an award for being the most user friendly Linux distribution, which is not surprising. If you are interested in learning GNU/Linux, Ubuntu is a good place to start.
Full Press Release
Burning ISO Howto – Ubuntu has a great tutorial on how to [...]

Dual-Boot Laptop Abandoned

24-Sep-06

My goal was to have a dual-boot laptop with Windows XP Pro and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 or Ubuntu Dapper. I ran into problems with both SUSE and Ubuntu. SUSE would not install with ACPI enabled, which resulted in SUSE not being able to power-off the laptop. it would restart, but [...]

Top 50 Projects in the Open Source World

28-Aug-06

A PDF list of the top 50 open source projects – according to the CEO of Uversa, David Uhlman. I listed most of the projects below. Check out the PDF for descriptions and links.

Ubuntu
Open/Suse
Linspire
Fedora
Redhat EL

Linux Server Distributions:

Debian
Redhat Enterprise Server

Other Software:

Gnome
Evolution
Tomboy
Beagle
F-Spot
Planner
iFolder
Auto-Pano sift
K3B
Gimp
Cine Paint
Subversion
Inkscape
Scribus
RDesktop
VNC: UltraVNC – RealVNC – TightVNC
Jabber
Asterisk
Ekiga
Eclipse
Open Office
Firefox – Firefox is the must-have Web browser. [...]