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Ubuntu open week

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu.

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Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. Once Ubuntu finished booting, I clicked the wonderful “install&# icon at the top. A few minutes later, I had a Ubuntu install with KDE – but it was bare bones. Ubuntu doesn’t come default with an easy GUI way to connect to a wireless access point.

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Last 10 (selected) delicious.com links

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List of Nonprofit, NPO, NGO Websites Using Drupal » The ENGINE Blog » ENGINE Industries: Atlanta, Georgia Web Design. EC2StartersGuide – Community Ubuntu Documentation. Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Amazon EC2 API Tools. EC2 and Ubuntu – Alestic.com. AboutUseCaseMaps < UCM < Foswiki.

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Tools I use: Personal Web Presence

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I’ve had a web presence of some sort since way back when most personal URLs looked something like: [link] In 2002 or so, I ditched HTML for a series of CMS systems for my personal stuff. I started out using the CMS I wrote in Perl, called XINA. Those were the days.) Anyway, that was then, and this is now. Here’s what I use.

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The evolution of web hosting

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. In October I went to a presentation by Rick Clark, the Ubuntu Server Team Manager. They started out with their S3 – simple storage service.

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My wish for Web 2.5

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 November 28, 2006 Well, both in the process of learning about all of the very cool web 2.0 Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0

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Alternatives to MySQL

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The problem is that the major Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat) don’t yet have MariaDB in their repositories, so it will be a while before MariaDB is an easy apt-get or yum away from installation (there are some independent repositories and builds.). MariaDB is a true drop in replacement of MySQL!