Habari: Not gone to hell just yet

September 16, 2007 23:13 | 1 Comment

Root who, on his about page, describes himself as a “contributing developer in the Habari Project where I am keeping an eye on the interface.” has posted a little rant called Habari: Is it going to hell? where he lashes out about the current design on habariproject.org….

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Wordpress/Automattic: All you data is belong to us

May 6, 2007 23:53 | 14 Comments

The guys over at Automattic has made the Automattic Stats plugin available for download, which makes it possible for self hosted Wordpress installations to get the same statistics package as wordpress.com hosted blogs have by default. While this sounds like a good idea, and I’m sure a lot of people …

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Windows XP Password Hoax: II

November 3, 2006 13:53 | 5 Comments

Yet another “how to change the administrator password in Windows” hoax is in the wild….

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Windows XP Privilege Escalation Exploit - No, it isn’t.

September 22, 2006 23:47 | 15 Comments

The recently surfaced “Windows XP Privilege Escalation Exploit” is really no such thing. In fact, it’s not even close. At first glance, it does look valid enough, but the fact remains that it’s not even close to being a real exploit….

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Linux on the Desktop II

January 10, 2006 23:30 | 12 Comments

Podz, a Wordpress Support Maven and frequent flyer in #wordpress has posted his reasoning behind going back to Windows XP after a short affair with Ubuntu. I have to say that I agree wholeheartedly with his experience. Linux simpy isn’t ready for desktop usage, at least for people …

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    Hopefully this is the last Developer Review release, before Habari enters official beta status.

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