Archive for April, 2011

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Upon the Subject of MediaWiki

Installing MediaWiki for IT 566 was pretty much the same as for WordPress. Download the tar file into your web root, create a MySQL database and user then go to you MediaWiki directory via a web brower and follow the instructions. The site is at http://librarymonk.zapto.org/mediawiki/. A screenshot is below.

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Monday, April 25th, 2011

Upon the Subject of WordPress

One of the IT 566 challenges was do install WordPress. WordPress has a very simple installation procedure. I created a MySQL user and database using phpMyadmin. After extracting the downloaded WordPress tar file to my web root and edited wp-config and I was ready to go. The site is at http://librarymonk.zapto.org/wordpress/. A screenshot is below.

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Sunday, April 24th, 2011

From Dan On Twitter Last Week

Free Curbside Recycling in Knoxville city limits http://www.cityofknoxville.org/householdrecycling/ # @pfaffman @it566 Upon the Subject of Chrome OS / Chromium http://bit.ly/gpBXlc #storypoints #challengeChromeOS #it566 # Powered by Twitter Tools

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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Upon the Subject of Chrome OS / Chromium

One of the challenges for IT 566 is to get Chrome OS. The pilot program for the CR-48 notebook closed sometime in March. Hardware running Chrome OS won’t be commercially available until June or July. So running Chrome OS on native hardware isn’t an option. Chromium OS is the open source variant of Chrome OS. [...]

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