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- Live from Googleplex: Chrome OS details revealed
- Ubuntu 9.10 has more immediate potentialMight I suggest trying Ubuntu 9.10? A phenominal OS with much more to offer then even Windows 7.Open source, free and ready to try today...http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1122http://www.tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparisonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYgWE6Svpaghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-nad9N3pgNot that I have readI'd stick with 904immediate potential to sink in obscurityGoogle was Linux's last fleeting chance to turn...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Qilan 3.2 (Mac)
- Qilan is a database and web application graphic user environment. It allows developers to work with database data and schema and to create dynamic Web applications linking one or several SQL database engines. A knowledge of SQL or code level programming is not required.In addition to SQL engines (Apache Derby,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- IQ Proxy 3.0.0R (Windows)
- IQ Proxy IQP is a robust and secure forward/reverse proxy server solution for Windows. Featuring the most scalable server engine with up to 10,000 simultaneous connections for both filtering and caching content proxy and securing and accelerating reverse proxy. IQ Proxy Server features a state-of-the-art multiple-connections/thread asynchronous architecture, providing the...
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- JumpBox for Tomcat Java Web Application Deployment 1.1.1 (Mac)
- Apache Tomcat is an open source servlet container that implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages specifications. Like other deployment JumpBoxes, the JumpBox for Tomcat makes it easy to deploy a web application (specifically a java-based web application). Notable features of this JumpBox include: Flexible deployment options: Applications...
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- JumpBox for Tomcat Java Web Application Deployment 1.1.1 (Windows)
- Apache Tomcat is an open source servlet container that implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages specifications. Like other deployment JumpBoxes, the JumpBox for Tomcat Java Web Application Deployment makes it easy to deploy a web application (specifically a java-based web application). Apache Tomcat has flexible deployment options, applications...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- WebLog Expert 6.2 (Windows)
- WebLog Expert is a feature-rich Web server log analyzer. It will give you information about your site's visitors: activity statistics, file access statistics, paths through the site, information about referring pages, search engines, browsers, operating systems, errors. Flexible filters will help you perform comprehensive research. The program generates HTML-based reports...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- WebLog Expert Lite 6.2 (Windows)
- WebLog Expert Lite is a Web server log analyzer. It can return specific, precise information and statistics about visitors to your site, including general activity, file access, referring pages, search engines, browsers, operating systems, and errors. The program generates HTML-based reports with tables and charts. WebLog Expert Lite supports log...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Web Log Explorer Professional 4.0 (Windows)
- The Web Log Explorer web server log analyzer generates reports of any kind and displays them. The system of filters provides the ability to carry out deep analysis of visitor activity. It gives you activity statistics, file access statistics, and information about referring pages, search engines, errors, visitor countries, referring...
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- EvriChart: A Linux Success Story
- Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Engine Yard draws funding as it ushers more developers onto the Ruby services train
- testingtestA knit[i]"The result has propelled a wave of alternative stacks, such as LAMP (Linux-Apache web server-MySQL-and either PHP, Python, or Perl"[/i]LAMP has been at work for YEARS supporting the backbone of the Internet.Ruby is still 'wet behind the ears' and I wouldn't recommend it on any major project.I'll take Perl...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Yahoo pays its 'technical debt' with IT overhaul
- Yahoo had a lot of "technical debt"---systems that most companies would call legacy infrastructure---and has it just about paid off. Sam Pullara, chief technologist at Yahoo, walked developers through its infrastructure changes over the last three years. The talk could have come from any enterprise that finds...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Apache 2.2.14 (Mac)
- The Apache Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP Web server. The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and...
- Software downloads 2009-10-06
- Easy File Management Web Server 2.5 (Windows)
- Easy File Management Web Server is a Web based file management software to manage your files and folders easily through a Web browser (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari). You can administrate your files and folders as easy as in your local drive and access with 128 bit SSL encryption HTTPS all...
- Software downloads 2009-09-24
- Open source does not work well for bad guys
- Open_Source is the futureOpen_Source 'Linux distro' driven appliances are the future, such as the many companies already doing extremely well.Closed source is a huge lethargic insecure monopoly trying to license/patent everything, however it is failing miserably. Look at the exploits of Windows, $9 Billion in damages last year just from...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Webmin 1.490 (Mac)
- Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms and Java for the File Manager module, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on.Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which...
- Software downloads 2009-09-18
- The Linux botweb story that wasn't ...
- One of the things that always confused me...If you can access the source code to Linux, then wouldn't it be possible to crack a password, and then alter the compromised system's source code to suit the hacker's needs?That doesn't seem to secure to me...The short answer is yes.But in reality...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- TrustLeap G-WAN 1.0.3 (Windows)
- G-WAN is a web server, with a small-footprint (50 KB). It supports GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE and OPTIONS, conditional requests and directory listings. G-WAN is also provably safer (speed is a side-effect of good designs). G-WAN is an application server (hence the other 50 KBs). Its C servlets (that...
- Software downloads 2009-09-09
- MAMP PRO 1.8.2 (Mac)
- "MAMP PRO" is the commercial, professional grade version of the classic local server environment for Mac OS X: MAMP. Designed for professional web developers and programmers, MAMP PRO allows easy installation and administration of their development environment under Mac OS X. As a professional web developer you have to...
- Software downloads 2009-09-08
- News to know: VMWare; White House; Google Books; Skype; Apple vs Android
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: VMware to step up data center automation game Sam Diaz: White House not equipped to hold keys...
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Apache.org hit by SSH key compromise
- The open-source Apache Software Foundation pulled its Apache.org Web site offline for about three hours today because of server hack caused by a compromised SSH key. by Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
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