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Blog: Historic Moment - Linux & Open Source Blog v.2 Launched

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Dear readers, subscribers and visitors …. may I have the pleasure to welcome you to my v.2 of Linux and Open Source Blog, featuring all new theme. A historic moment for this small blog, and it all started on 26th September 2005:
“Soon I’ll start populating the blog.
It will primarily focus on Linux, especially the [...]

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Blog: New Header From The Upcoming Theme

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Here is a very small preview from my new theme that I am hoping will be up by mid next month.

This is a header from new theme, consisting of main background, LinuxOSS logo and the blog title. The original size will be around 950px. I wanted to continue using the green colour as the main [...]

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Blog Notice: New Theme Development For This Blog

As most of the readers are aware of, I am after all slowly moving to my own wordpress.org hosting. A day ago I sat down and drew few rough sketches for the new theme, and here is what I came up with, the one I liked the most:

yups, hand sketched … not good with PSD, [...]

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Fixing Wordpress and MySQL Charset Problem (Wordpress Posts Using Several Languages)

*!!!!! I think that this post needs some modifications, as not all is working as expected. Any tips and comments are very much welcomed. (Think I have resolved the issue …. check UPDATE section at the bottom)
I am in the process of moving my blogs from wordpress.com to my own wordpress.org hosting. While doing so, [...]

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Why Opt for Wordpress?

If you are new to WordPress and looking for reasons to use WordPress as a CMS (content management system) in your new website, let me give you some.
Open Source Software
WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial [...]

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Major: WordPress 2.5 Released and 10 Plugins to Combat Spam

WordPress 2.5 has officially been released. Along with the release is a refresh of most WordPress properties, including WordPress.org website.

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin [...]

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Most Usefull Wordpress Plugins

If you’re planning to start a new blog, you would probably choose to use the most popular system out there, Wordpress. Unfortunatelly, Wordpress only comes with a couple of features preinstalled, only the basic ones. To get all the goodies you need to install some extra plugins. But, with the vast number of plugins available [...]

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WordPress 2.2 Release

The latest public release of WordPress has landed; version 2.2, and it is good. At the top of the new features list (trac list here) is the native incorporation of the insanely popular WordPress widgets plug-in from Automattic; they’re built right in now, which should help spread the word for theme authors everywhere to start [...]

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CONGRATULATIONS: 1001 Post on Linux and Open Source Blog

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Comgratulations to me :)
This is 1001st post on this blog. A long way …….. and still going on. And it all started on 26th September 2005.
 

Another blog started later in October last year by me, which I named E@zyVG’s Vichar, is personal blog. There I mostly have posts on things that interest and concern [...]

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Host a personal diary on your PC using WordPress

A post written by Ravi on his blog with a cool idea of using wordpress as your personal diary. The same article might be as well of some help for those who are looking forward to setting up wordpress on their computer.
A couple of months back, I did something really interesting. I downloaded the WordPress [...]

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Announcing Phoronix Redblog Dedicated to ATI Drivers Development

In an effort to get a better understanding for the current state of ATI's proprietary fglrx Linux display drivers, and to provide the alternative OS community with more facts as well as in-house comments, Phoronix has today announced the creation of redblog.phoronix.com. This blog will focus on the Phoronix Editor-In-Chief, Michael Larabel, personally evaluating ATI's [...]

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Take Action to Save Internet from Corporate Control

 
Right now USA Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the First Amendment of the Internet — a principle called "network neutrality" that preserves the free and open Internet. Congress needs to hear from you today or they will hand over control of what you do online to companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.
 
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Blog: Top 2 on Wordpress

C'mon, just one more to climb. Last time I was on 2nd spot was back in October. So it's nice to see I am there once more.

Support Open Source Software :)

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Blog: Top 3 - Linux and Open Source Blog and Some Statistics

Ever since the SUSE Linux 10.1 came out the traffic to my blog has risen more than twice fold. I remember the times when for months my blog was always featured in Top 10 on Wordpress.com, as there were much lesser bloggers. Today it hosts more than 180 thousand blogs and in last few months [...]

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Wordpress 2.01 released

Wordpress 2.0 made big waves at the blogging world, and soon everyone upgraded to the new wordpress blog engine. But, there were some bugs and sometimes I felt that the older 1.5 version was better. But, the import tool for Blogger was really nice and I love it. Exactly 1 month after version 2.0 was [...]

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WordPress 2.0 is better than ever

Here is a nice article on WordPress 2.0 from NewsForge. (a must read i think)
WordPress 2.0 is out, and it brings a slew of improvements and new features, including WYSIWYG editing, user roles, easy database backups, and more. The WordPress home page describes the software as “state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform,” but when you [...]

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Flock Preview on Linux

Received an e-mail yesterday confirming that Flock is now available publicly as Flock Developer Preview, and as of today stands as 0.5 Pre version. For those of you that are not aware of this browser , Flock is a new browser that is being developed using open source engine from Firefox and promises to bring [...]

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WordPress 1.5.2 Is Good Fit for Business

Here is a review on Wordpress from eWeek, which is little old, but I found it interesting, as I myself am experimenting before I will settle down for one. Till now I find and hope that WordPress will be my choice ….
Review:  The open-source blogging platform WordPress is an excellent choice for building a straight [...]

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