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How to run multiple Adobe Air apps Tweetdeck

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

Twitter columns can get pretty busy if your tweeting from multiple accounts. I wanted to find the benefits of utilizing 2 display monitors for separate accounts or in some cases the same accounts with unique columns per screen for tweets …

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Posted in Open Source, Opinion, RDBMS, Software

Open Source, Developers and the Database

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

I will discuss the database layer and at some point in the topic what open source tools are currently in use on some of the biggest media sites today.  I myself have been a systems engineer and Microsoft Certified SQL …

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Netcraft releases February 2011 Web Server Survey

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

Are more people using Apache? With 9.6M new hostnames  there is a 1% point increase in the market share this year from a survey of 284,842,077 site responses. Reports from Netcraft sourced here are shown indicating that a significant contribution …

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Posted in Hardware, Open Source, Servers, Software, Storage, Virtualization

Cloud and thin clients, the past is future

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

Cloud – repurpose your old machine with Jolicloud 1.1, download. Recycle any computer with a useable lightweight web operating system. For those that are waiting to try out Google chrome OS, this is the product available. While there are no …

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Posted in Industry, Open Source, Software

eBay Chooses Joomla!

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Nicholas O'Neil

eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY), the world’s largest online marketplace, today announced an agreement to use Joomla, one of the most popular open source content management system (CMS), to launch a community portal as part of eBay’s internal analytics platform. eBay is leveraging …

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WordPress reaches 200 million blog posts – how big is the WordPress hosting service?

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Nicholas O'Neil

As reported by Mashable and Tier 1, WordPress – the weblog hosting provider owned by Automattic – crossed the 200 million blog posts mark.  An estimated 350,000 new posts and 260 million visitors inundate WordPress-based blogs a month.  These metrics …

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Xen Hypervisor 3.4.3 Now Available

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Carter

Xen Hypervisor 3.4.3 Ready for Download : VMblog.com – Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone. Device passthrough improvements, with particular emphasis on support for client devices (further support is available as part of the XCI project). RAS features: cpu and …

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PHP turns 15

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Carter

What was originally called Personal Home Page Tools — for the 0.01% of the population who were willing to learn a new programming language to create their home page — is now at version 5.3.2 and going strong. Created by …

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