SMF Bridge for Joomla! Discontinued

I am lucky, I am using WordPress and not Joomla!

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.

Linux: Setup Mail Server

Have seen post from ubuntuforums about setting up mail server using ubuntu linux. I wanted to share to you probably you might want to try it out.

Wallpaper Collections

Just wanna share wallpaper collection sites that may help your desktop looks like heaven. I am currently not using it due to organization’s policy about wallpaper settings.

Periodic Table of the Internet

This sounds interesting for all of us. On our school days, we have learned Periodic Table of Elements and now – the Internet.

Ubuntu: Setting Date/Time using NTP Server

I am a user of Windows and I normally update Windows Clients’ time using the NTP server. On linux, especially Ubuntu, I am thinking how can I change or synchronize system time to existing servers. Luckily I found information on how to do this.

Next Release of Ubuntu LTS Announced (U 8.04)

I am a biggest fan of Ubuntu. Actually, Ubuntu is the reason why I am using Linux. I am very excited on this news and will watch on its development. See the story on this link. By the way, dont forget the 7.10 version of Ubuntu which will be released this October 2007.

Screen Tabs for Windows (Stick)

Stick is a freeware utility for Windows that will help users in everyday tasks. I found it great specially on its note tab feature. For more details, you may check on their website. Thanks to ghacks for posting this utility.

ReactOS – Windows-based architecture

This is the first time that I have seen an Operating System that was based on Windows’ architecture. You may check this out:

ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.

More details on this URL: http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

Restrict ssh-server access to specific network

I build an Ubuntu Linux with two network interfaces connected to LAN and WAN (Internet). I have installed ssh-server using:

sudo apt-get install ssh openssh-server

Just notice that even external users can access the server thru ssh so I decided to secure it by allowing ssh access to listen ontly LAN and not to WAN interface.

Why Linux is better?

Got nice article from PHPUGPH thread about advantages of linux over Microsoft Windows. Hope that it may enlighten some of us which is which, especially on some organizations that are planning to implement linux.

Here is the direct link: Why Linux is better?