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  1. Re:Oh fuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server

    Go to Bitnami. Find the thing you seek. Download it for whatever you are running (hardware, virtual, or cloud). Do your work. When done, you can either learn how to use the tools that you utilized and move that to production or pay Bitnami money to host it for you.

  2. Re:Looking to implement SP by flyingfsck · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees

    Here, download a KnowledgeTree VM instead. It is trivial to install and it works way better than SP: http://bitnami.org/stack/knowledgetree

  3. Re:SharePoint is like a Swiss Army Gun by flyingfsck · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees

    Here you go: http://bitnami.org/stack/knowledgetree

  4. Bitnami by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 0 · on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server?

    Bitnami, Bitmami, Bitnami
    http://bitnami.org/cloud

  5. Ted is making excuses by rsborg · · Score: 1 · on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development

    You can not only run VMWare, you can run virtualbox if you just want free (linux is free too). There are numerous VMWare appliances stores like Bitnami

    You can install MAMP/XAMPP. You can learn to man up and actually use the package managers.

    I've done all of the above in different circumstances. Compare and contrast with my windows coworker who had serious issues with symlinks, svn and windows (XP doesn't support junctions, and neither did svn at that point, IIRC).

    Just about the only issue I've had with Mac development is that svn is noticeably slower in doing lots of file operations than on our stage and production linux boxes... but not that much.

  6. Use a document mangement system by rsborg · · Score: 2, Informative · on How Do You Organize Your Experimental Data?
    Document Management Systems are great - they combine (some of) the benefits of source control, file systems, and email (collaboration).

    I would recommend just downloading a VM or cloud image of something like Knowledge Tree or Alfresco (I personally prefer Alfresco), and run it on the free vmwareplayer or a real VM solution if you have one.

    I recently setup a demo showing the benefits of such a system, I was able to, in about one day, download and setup Alfresco, expose CIFS interface (ie, \\192.168.x.x\documents) and just dump a portion of my entire document base into the system. After digestion, the system had all the documents full-text-indexed (yes, even word docs and excel files thanks to OpenOffice libraries), and I could go about changing directory structure, moving around and renaming files, etc. .. and the source control would show me changes. In fact, I could go into the backend and write SQL queries if I wanted to with detailed reports of how things were on date X or Y revisions ago. Was quite sweet. All the while, the users still saw the same windows directory structure and modifications they made there would be versioned and modified in Alfresco's database.

    Here is a bitnami VM image, will save you days of configuration. If the solution works for you, but is slow, just DL the native stack and migrate or re-import.

  7. Re:Tell us what it's called... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How To Spread Word About My FOSS Project?

    He did a google search of 'dandaman32' probably and followed the link results. That is what I did and found out a bit more about the project.

    Though, it seems that Enano CMS has a professional-looking website, a Freshmeat page, an ohloh page, a BitNami stack page, and a Twitter feed.

    Did I miss anything? ;-)

  8. Re:redmine by SirKveldulv · · Score: 2, Informative · on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking?

    If you want to use redmine (or some of the other software mentioned below) on windows, bitnami have a stand-alone package for this. Just run the setup.exe and you'll be live in 5 minutes.

    Redmine
    http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine

    Trac (issue tracker)
    http://bitnami.org/stack/trac

    Tracks (gtd app with a familiar sounding name)
    http://bitnami.org/stack/tracks

  9. Re:redmine by SirKveldulv · · Score: 2, Informative · on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking?

    If you want to use redmine (or some of the other software mentioned below) on windows, bitnami have a stand-alone package for this. Just run the setup.exe and you'll be live in 5 minutes.

    Redmine
    http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine

    Trac (issue tracker)
    http://bitnami.org/stack/trac

    Tracks (gtd app with a familiar sounding name)
    http://bitnami.org/stack/tracks

  10. Re:redmine by SirKveldulv · · Score: 2, Informative · on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking?

    If you want to use redmine (or some of the other software mentioned below) on windows, bitnami have a stand-alone package for this. Just run the setup.exe and you'll be live in 5 minutes.

    Redmine
    http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine

    Trac (issue tracker)
    http://bitnami.org/stack/trac

    Tracks (gtd app with a familiar sounding name)
    http://bitnami.org/stack/tracks

  11. Re:Fedora by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 1 · on Fedora 12 Beta Released

    Try Bitnami stacks. Much easier than setting everything up piecewise. Here's the LAMP for you.

  12. Re:Fedora by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 1 · on Fedora 12 Beta Released

    Try Bitnami stacks. Much easier than setting everything up piecewise. Here's the LAMP for you.

  13. dokuwiki is great for this by jollyreaper · · Score: 1 · on How Do You Document Technical Procedures?

    http://bitnami.org/stack/dokuwiki

    This is an installer stack that will get it working on a windows box no muss, no fuss. It uses files in directories rather than a database so backups are a snap. You can include screenshots, there's an integrated search engine, all the features you could ask for.

    I highly recommend it.

  14. Making the business case by twasserman · · Score: 1 · on How Do I Start a University Transition To Open Source?
    While I, too, strongly favor open source solutions for my own personal use, I recognize that introducing open source software into a large organization is a complex and time-consuming procss. To me, you should not focus primarily on displacing Microsoft or other incumbents, or about the religious issues around open source. With the lousy economy and the uncertain future, everyone is receptive to looking at solutions that can reduce costs.

    With that in mind, you should focus on how to provide the highest value IT services for your University. That means building a business case around any changes that you proposed, including the upfront and ongoing costs of transition, training, and support. As many others have noted, "free" software isn't free.

    Your University has thousands of users, including a broad diversity of stakeholders, including executive and administrative staff, faculty, and students. All of them expect to have systems up and running 24x7. Any lengthy downtime in a critical system must be avoided.

    So what should you do?

    • Recommend the formation of a University-wide task group to look at "future needs" and at potential cost-saving approaches. Make sure to include students. Bring in outsiders with expertise on open source software, including commercial open source solutions, e.g., Sun/MySQL and RedHat/JBoss. You can help to justify the need for a task force by mentioning the costs of moving everyone to Windows 7 next year.
    • Make sure that one of the task force recommendations is to set up a server from which people can download various high quality open source software to try on their own mchines. That set can include many of the 25 packages that Palamida rated as enterprise-ready, along with Firefox and OpenOffice.org.
    • Perform a census of existing open source software on your IT systems. You might be using a lot more open source software than anyone realizes.
    • Put together a couple of demos or pilot projects. For example, you can bring up a working Drupal CMS or Mediawiki wiki within an hour, even less if you start with a preconfigured Bitnami stack. Anyone need a new web site right now?

    Of course, there is no assurance that these methods will work, or that proprietary vendors won't try an end run around your efforts. But I've found these techniques to be an effective guerrilla marketing approach in the past. Good luck.