Applications on Facebook and their automatic quiz result feed, photo feed and message feed are a huge problem on Facebook. These applications are annoying and they spread like virus by exploiting your friends. Some applications even lead to loss of money by exploiting your mobile phone or credit card.
In our example, we want to keep [...]
Privacy is being threatened.
The answer to this is to use software, that can
confirm, that messages is in fact from the expected sender,
confirm, that messages are authentic, and,
encrypt and decrypt messages, documents and files.
In terms of software, this is referred to as signed and encrypted messages. In order to do this, a pair of keys are [...]
Read the rest of this entry »On Saturday, October 24th, Open Source Days will host the Community Day 2009 conference at Symbion in Copenhagen, which will include a number of simultanious talks on open source subjects.
The program has been published on the website.
The price is 145 DKK per guest and includes T-shirt and lunch.
There are lots of open source software, that can be used to combine a series of raw movie clips from a digital camera into a single compressed movie clip. A simple solution is to use the command line movie encoder mencoder.
In this example, we want to combine three raw movie clips, 1.avi, 2.avi and 3.avi, [...]
This is the procedure for upgrading a WordPress installation. It is based on the procedure from WordPress. However, this procedure is optimized for those, who has direct shell access to their web server.
Backup the database.
Backup the WordPress directory, download and install the new version.
cp -r www.foobar.com www.foobar.com-backup
cd www.foobar.com
rm -rf *
ftp http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
unzip latest.zip
rm latest.zip
mv wordpress/* .
rmdir [...]
In our example, we want to set up a website, that has a log, a static page and a content management system behind it. We want to be able to change between different theme designs.
There are many of such open source systems around. We will choose WordPress for this example.
It is assumed, that system account [...]
First, we define our requirements for a multiuser invoice system. These will help us find the right system.
The system should be available as open source and have an online demonstration or satisfying screenshots.
The system should be easy to install, easy to backup, easy to restore, easy to use, have a neat layout and use English [...]
Dear customers, users and guests, the content management system, the frame work, for our new website has now been installed and implemented.
After testing three different well known content management systems for our requirements, such as simplicity, learning curve and scalability, our choice fell on WordPress, which meet all our requirements. Among other tested systems was [...]
