Thaidoweb 2008

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 tiny bit to mail order it or buy it from a company. Linux came into being about 11 years ago- it was developed by Linux Tornados of [...]

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 systems. Snort has been ported over to Microsoft Windows operating systems also, but it’s bread and butter is back on the UNIX/Linux side of the house. Most [...]

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 reviewed.
Administration – It is hard to determine what some features are and do, such as the Ephemerides feature. Documentation is sadly lacking! The most complete documentation is [...]

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 customers can communicate with you as much as they like
before they buy. To start up an e-commerce ‘web shop’, however,
you need to take a look at e-commerce software.
The Free and [...]

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 when using and/or providing offshore software development services.
When purchasing software development services, many people make the mistake of assuming that the only reason [...]