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About two years ago I posted an article recommending some WordPress plugins. Well, times change and two years is a long time in the world of tech, so I thought it might be good for us to take another look. Some of the plugins I recommended then I’m still recommending now. I’ve replaced a few, for one reason or another, with different plugins that serve the same purpose. There are others that fill new shoes that didn’t need filling back then.

Deciso announced a Linux-supported, AMD-based board, also available as a 19-inch rackmount networking appliance. The Netboard A10 and Netboard A10 Rack Appliance are built around a quad-core, 1.65GHz AMD Embedded GX-416RA G-Series SoC, and offer up to 8GB RAM, an open source Coreboot BIOS, four GigE ports, and I/O including USB, serial, SATA, and DisplayPort connections.

It may not be fair to call Weechat the little brother of Irssi, but in my short introduction to it, that's what it felt like. If Weechat didn't seem quite as powerful as Irssi to me, I definitely can say that it is better-looking out of the box. So, little brother has one thing going for him!

TurnKey Linux, the ready-to-run Linux cloud server app company, is now offering 64-bit server apps on Amazon Web Services. TurnKey Linux is built on top of 64-bit Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 Linux.

A modem designed specifically for Africa has been announced at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh. The device combines rugged design with a range of connectivity options, switching between wi-fi, 3G and fixed broadband. Ushahidi, the Kenyan tech firm behind BRCK, believe Africa-specific hardware is long overdue.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: June 11, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced a promotional exam lab for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at EuroPython 2013 (https://ep2013.europython.eu/). LPI's affiliate, LPI-Italy (http://www.lpi-italia.org) is hosting the exam lab and is a certification sponsor of EuroPython 2013.

Here is a little trick to close the terminal automatically after a certain period of inactivity.

If you are using nagios in your hosting environment and need to install nrpe on your XenServer servers, here’s a good way to do it.

BASH can be a difficult shell to use and many commands may be too long to type. Some users may find some commands to hard to remember, and then other users want to customize BASH and make it more interesting. This article will help to solve some of these issues and show readers how to make BASH better.

The team is proud to announce the release of Snowlinux 4 'Frosty'. Snowlinux 4 'Frosty' is the latest release based upon Ubuntu 13.04. MATE 1.6, the default desktop environment, and Cinnamon 1.8 run perfectly. While MATE 1.6 was mostly improved technically, Cinnamon 1.8 was improved with an unified control center and an own screensaver. Snowlinux 4 'Frosty' uses the latest technologies and has an updated package base. New features: Linux kernel 3.8; MATE 1.6 and Cinnamon 1.8; Snowlinux Metal theme; Nemo 1.8; Caja 1.6; Firefox 21.0 and Thunderbird 17.0.5; Cinnamon control center and screensaver; Snowlinux Full HD backgrounds.

HERE document is a special purpose code block through which text inputs can be supplied to programs on command line and within shell scripts. This way, HERE documents provide a good alternative for fetching inputs from text files. In this article, we will understand most of the important aspects of HERE documents through some practical examples. Also, towards the end of article will be a list of resources which are worth read on various practical aspects of HERE documents.

Linux Mint 17 will be in a position to get a lot of innovation and new features, however Linux Mint 16 will suffer in this area to accommodate it

The Maker's Eden is a first-person point-and-click adventure in three parts from indie studio ScrewyLightbulb. Presented in the style of a motion comic with explore-able (and sometimes panoramic) scenes and stylised, comic-esque dialogue systems, the story drops you into a sci-fi noir world with no clue who you are, where you are, or even why you are.

rcron is a powerful tool that helps system administrators in setting up cron jobs redundancy and failover over groups of machines. RCRON ensure that a job installed on several machines will only run on the active one at any time.

Over 36,000 students, teachers, and staffers at more than 20 schools in the Swiss capital of Basel are using Kolab, an open source email and collaboration suite.

But thank heavens for Free Software and those making them available. With much gratitude to them, here are two Free Software services that can help you deal with PRISM and Boundless Informant.

After two years in beta, Red Hat's platform as a service cloud, OpenShift, is ready for business.

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 12.3. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.

How can you apply the concepts of open source to a living, breathing city? An open source city is a blend of open culture, open government policies, and economic development. I derived these characteristics based on my experiences and while writing my book, The foundation for an open source city.

Characteristics such as collaboration, participation, transparency, rapid prototyping, and many others can be applied to any city that wants to create an open source culture. Let's take a look at these characteristics in more detail.

Before CEO Tim Cook handed over the iOS 7–introduction chores to other Apple execs at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference, he took a moment to slag Android and its OS fragmentation in an appeal for the hearts and minds of developers. "This version fragmentation is terrible for developers, as many of you know," he told the devs attending his WWDC keynote presentation in San Francisco on Monday.