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Customize MediaWiki into Your Ultimate SMB Collaborative Website

November 22, 2009
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Can’t convince the boss to shell out some bucks for Sharepoint server? Oh what’s that…He doesn’t trust Google with company resources? Ok well, you still need to figure how to set up a collaborative website/cms/wiki whatever you want to call it. In this case we will use the term “wiki” because that is the solution [...]

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Pulse 2.1.2.4 Open Source Computer System Management Now Available

November 21, 2009
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Pulse 2 helps organizations ranging from dozens to 100 000+ heterogeneous computers to inventory, maintain, update and take full control on their IT assets. It has been designed to handle 100 000+ computers spread on many sites.  It supports heterogeneous platforms such as MS Windows, GNU/Linux (Mandriva, Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu., etc.), Mac OSX, HP-UX, IBM [...]

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Google Chrome OS: The Video Demo

November 19, 2009
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Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security… Blah Blah Blah here is the video:

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Round 1: Google Sites vs Microsoft SharePoint…Fight!

November 19, 2009
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Leena Rao over at TechCrunch reports that:
Google Sites, which launched a little under two years ago, have given businesses and consumers a way to quickly build their own websites with no HTML knowledge required, making it relatively easy for anyone without a technical background to build a simple website. Now, Google [...]

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RackTables, a nifty solution for datacenter/server-room asset management

November 8, 2009
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Racktables is a nifty and robust solution for datacenter and server room asset management. It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration, etc.
Lots of system and network administrators come to the point where they have to maintain quite complex documentation of the racks, devices, links and network resources they have in [...]

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Mozilla’s Thunderbird Team looks toward the cloud with Raindrop

November 6, 2009
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For almost all of its existence, Mozilla Messaging has been known for Thunderbird e-mail software with the traditional view that a person’s PC is the center of their computing existence.
Now, though, the Mozilla Foundation subsidiary’s scope is expanding beyond the confines of the computer under your desk or on your lap. In the near term, [...]

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Google Apps will get stronger video chat capabilities

November 4, 2009
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Google Apps users can expect to see significant improvements in the suite’s voice- and video-chat capabilities, as the company builds on Gmail’s current features in that area.
Gmail’s voice and video chats are now limited to one-to-one communications, but Google wants to broaden that capability to more than two participants and make it more robust all [...]

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