Archive for the ‘open source’ Category

Backup script for a LAMP server

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Over the years we have used several backup systems on our various IT systems. I have recently been asked by a few friends to publish these scripts. Firstly, please allow me to make a few assumptions: We want to run the backup every two hours and we want to keep 400 copies ...

Powershell, Drupal and market analysis, yep, SuperMondays is back!

Monday, February 16th, 2009

The next SuperMondays event is booked for the 23rd February at the usual place (the Beehive Research Facility in Newcastle University). You can find a map here: http://tinyurl.com/czs4dp The speakers this month will be: Jonathan Noble — Microsoft Windows PowerShell, an introduction Microsoft released Windows PowerShell in 2006 to finally give Windows a decent shell and ...

Proprietary software is often more expensive than the open source alternative

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

This week I was asked why felt that it was expensive to use proprietary software. While the following line of thought will not be new to anybody who is involved in the open source community I felt that perhaps it might be useful for others to read. I think 'cost' for a ...