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Comment on Open-Source on Proprietery Server? by Andrew Chlup

Andrew Chlup — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:56:08 +0000

Great link. I know many folks that are looking for FOSS software that was built for windows, instead of linux.

I have to ask what compelled you to open-source EbWeb? Or has it always been an open-source project?

Comment on AzTEA – Session @ WOW – Virtualization by Andrew Chlup

Andrew Chlup — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:43:38 +0000

Thanks for the addition, I’ll add it to my list for the future.

Andy

Comment on AzTEA – Session @ WOW – Virtualization by Gregory Thomson

Gregory Thomson — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:19:13 +0000

http://www.xen.org/ may be another useful link to add to the list – open source virtualization. I believe they got bought by Citrix who is contributing to the open source project, but also adding their own commercial addons (non-free, and probably not open source) to further the use of it.

Greg

Comment on Open-Source on Proprietery Server? by Gregory Thomson

Gregory Thomson — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:13:29 +0000

While I can’t say how many, I can say I’ve seen Microsoft pushing developers in this way a bit. They’ve started hosting open source projects at http://www.codeplex.com. I haven’t looked at most of what they have there, but I’m guessing many are specific to the Microsoft platform.

Greg

Comment on Arras Theme with WPMU by rj

rj — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:29:08 +0000

Nice work. Have you used it with WP3 and multisite? I have tried and unfortunately, no bueno ( – Thx. ./rj

Comment on Is the Cloud Stifling Innovation? by Andrew Chlup

Andrew Chlup — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:15:37 +0000

I agree that the ISPs would have a fit over the idea, given that most already block ports 80 and 443.

I would argue that in today’s world, lack of knowledge = laziness. I can find 20 websites will graphically illustrated guides on how to setup and manage a linux webserver with 5 seconds of searching. Of course, I have to spend the time reading them to truly understand them.

Mostly I’m just asking myself. “Do you really have an open Internet with the cloud”?. Basically, users of the cloud are giving up rights and freedoms because they don’t have the knowledge to create their own.

Twitter is cool, but what happens if the government decides to shut it down (i.e. Iran)? Gmail is great, but is really there to stop them from using your information anyway they please?

Don’t get me wrong I use both services and enjoy their usefulness.

What worries me is that the cloud increasingly feels like the antithesis of the idea of an open and free web.

Andy

Comment on Is the Cloud Stifling Innovation? by Lee Graham

Lee Graham — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:50:47 +0000

Very interesting and thought provoking concept. It would be really nifty if it worked like that. Unfortunately, I think we are beyond the point of being able to change.

It makes sense that we own the content and push it to aggregators. In fact, I really like this concept better than the current model. Yet, I don’t its necessarily a laziness thing, but rather lack of knowledge. I don’t think that everyone has the skills to setup, manage and protect their own individual web servers at home, PLUS I’m not sure ISPs (especially those here in the US, would be too fond of this idea either).

Cheers!
Lee

Comment on DIMDIM Web Meetings by Kelsey C

Kelsey C — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:43:44 +0000

You should probably check out RHUB Web Conference. It has done wonders for us.

Comment on Arras Theme with WPMU by Andrew Chlup

Andrew Chlup — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:36:43 +0000

Hi Mattew,

It was my mistake. I never had the demo site using Arras for the home site. The if then at the bottom seems to fix it and allow anybody else in your WPMU site use it.

Andy

Comment on Arras Theme with WPMU by Mattew

Mattew — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:13:09 +0000

Hi,
Thank you for provided solution, but it doesn’t work for me
I use WPMU 2.8.4a on Nginx, but also tried on Apache – no results.

Any help would be tremendously appreciated.