Hey Guys! Don’t raise your eyebrows or fear by hearing the word Linux. It is as user friendly as windows. Just take a look at the articles below and all myths about Linux in your mind will disappear. Introduction to Linux: It’s a free operating system available to download but you have to pay a [...]

What is Snort? Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) that can audit network traffic in real-time. Snort is a packet sniffer, a packet logger, and a network intrusion detection system. Snort as I mentioned before is an open source software which means it can be configured and complied on most operating [...]

TikiWiki is open source software – it is written in PHP, uses phpAdmin for mySQL database administration, and uses the Smarty Template Engine. Installation – Since our host installed the TikiWiki, I cannot comment on ease of installation. While TikiWiki has many features, only the features used on the Spotlight on Lake website will be [...]

If you have products to sell, then your number one reason for starting a website is likely to be promoting them. Have you considered, though, that you could sell your products directly, online? This is e-commerce – basically like a much better version of mail order, where the descriptions can be any length and your [...]

In combining Open Source software and offshore development, high quality, cost effective software is more easily obtainable. In fact, I suggest Open Source should always be a part of any outsourced software development, but that is a different topic. The focus of this article is how Open Source provides a foundation of trust and confidence [...]