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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 129

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @02:21PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Michael J. Ross writes "Web developers are oftentimes under pressure to build attractive sites as quickly as possible, and thus they are increasingly making use of content management systems (CMSs), which offer most of the functionality typically needed in a site, such as user authentication, site-wide styling, and of course managing content contributed by site owners and users. Joomla is an extremely popular and heavily-used CMS, partly because it is one of the easiest to install, configure, and use as a starting point for a new site. But with all CMSs, Joomla's online documentation and forums can prove frustrating to the new developer. Books such as the recently published Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 are intended to fill that gap." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.

Comment i can only speak for my self (Score 0) 471

by peavy on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @02:17PM (#23406996) Attached to: Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard

most if my systems run on linux 5 linux 1 windows.

Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard 471

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @01:05PM from the positive-move dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We first heard about Splashtop back in October, when the instant-on Linux desktop was announced. At the time it was a really exciting concept but Asus only rolled out the technology on high-end motherboards. Splashtop just announced that Asus will be expanding the desktop to the P5Q motherboard family and later on to all Asus motherboards. That's embedded Linux shipping over a million motherboards a month! The release also mentioned that the technology will be appearing on notebooks this year as well."

MySpace Wins $230 Million Judgment Against Sanford Wallace 160

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @11:00AM from the i-thought-that-guy-was-done dept.

smooth wombat writes "Apparently some people just don't take the hint. The latest story in the Sanford Wallace spamming saga is a $230 million verdict against Wallace and his partner, Walter Rines, when they failed to show up in court. Wallace and Rines were accused by MySpace of creating their own accounts and taking over other accounts through phishing scams, and then using those accounts to send out bogus emails to other members. The emails sent would indicate a video or web site but when people would go to the link, the two would make money through the number of hits generated or they would try to sell something such as ring tones. According to MySpace, the pair sent over 730,000 emails to members which resulted in bandwidth and delivery-related costs as well as complaints from hundreds of members. The 2003 CAN-SPAM Act allows MySpace to collect $100 per violation or triple that amount when the spam is sent 'willfully and knowingly.'"

Submission + - Stealing laptops? Don't touch a Mac (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

robipilot

on Saturday May 10, 2008 @08:57PM

robipilot writes: "Mac stolen, Mac comes online, owner connects back to Mac using "Back to My Mac", owner takes picture of culprit, and viola, criminal caught. Okay, it wasn't that easy, but here's an interesting story of using some built-in technology on the Mac to recover a stolen laptop."

Submission + - Bell Canada misinformation regarding throttling (itworldcanada.com)

Submitted by rsax on Tuesday April 15, 2008 @06:22PM

rsax writes: Bell Canada's chief of regulatory affairs Mirko Bibic attempts to justify the throttling of the last-mile connection to independent ISPs. As is typical, Bell Canada is abusing peoples confusion between issues around the last mile natural monopoly and Net Neutrality. If people continue to confuse these two related but separate issues, Bell Canada and other incumbent phone and cable companies will win this critical debate.

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