Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube Lessig blog: Huge and important news: free licenses upheld NYT: Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...
Heads-up to Joomla users:Â There's a patch out for a critical password-reset forgery issue that could compromise your content management system. Oh, by the way, it's already being actively exploited. The open-source group warns in an advisory that the issue affects Joomla version 1.5.5 and all previous...
One of the big concerns arising from the pending Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo, and of proprietary open source in general, is the fear that a project's owner will abuse its power, even kill a worthwhile project. Well, fork that. (Picture from a YoLinux tutorial on the fork...
Moodle is trying to lead the break by putting its open source course management system into Amazon's cloud. Moodle is a Sourceforge Community Choice Award finalist. by Dana Blankenhorn
Most colleges and universities use Virtual Learning Environments VLE like Moodle, Blackboard and Dokeos and it's a great way to share information, collect coursework and essays, and keeping in touch with the students as well as the students keeping in touch with the lecturers. But...
Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Making sense of Windows' irrational pricing and licensing Robin Harris: 2.5" disks to become new standard in 2009 TechRepublic: 10 common mistakes to avoid when you're installing Linux software Christopher Dawson: My kid hates...
