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DSpace open source repository can be downloaded as a live CD. However, trying to run the Live CD on Microsoft Virtual PC will result in an unrecoverable processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset now error. This entry presents a fix to get around this. [More]

Windows Vista is so slow and annoying. Microsoft have finally created an operating system that improves on Windows XP. As so many are saying, this really is "Vista done right". [More]

Strong passwords are vital in the battle against identity theft. By using KeePass, an open source password management system, and Microsoft's free Mesh, a simple solution is at hand to mitigate this threat. [More]

Experiences with bad installation experiences of Open Source Issue management systems lead me to Eventum which is a great Issue management System, it's open Source licensed under a GNU GPL. It may not be the most attractive application, but it does all that I could ask of it and is very easy to use. [More]

A short rant about a great free online Moodle Programming course offered by the Humboldt State University covering a broad range of subjects from installation, administration, documentation, testing and extending Moodle. [More]

I managed to migrate all the content from my DasBlog installation to my BlogEngine.NET installation. It was not too bad, I got some great information from a post on Kivanc Ozuolmez's blog. He has a link to a utility by written by Paul van Brenk and located at codeplex. I didn't really figu... [More]

Media RSS (MRSS) is an XML format which extends the RSS format. By using this format, a website can be enabled to provide rich media functionality. This can be used for images, audio and video. This entry discusses enabling Media RSS for images. Video is very easy to implement, but will not be discussed here. By using PicLens in Firefox, the result looks like below. It is very fast, full screen, and has nice facilities to scroll around the images, zoom in and out and other such things. Here I will discuss a simple implementation, and you can scroll below to download a small .NET application to automate this process. If you already have a Media RSS viewing application, then check out an example of the output (Note, copyright links were added after the page was generated). [More]

After upgrading Moodle, an open source Learning Management System, I started experiencing problems uploading SCORM objects. The specific errors I was getting were PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature, and An error occurs during package unzip (sic). Other error messages that can be caused by lack of disk space are An error occurred while copying the zip file to the course directory and An error occurred while backing up course start [More]

The description is used as the meta description as well as shown in the related posts. It is recommended that you write a description, but not mandatory [More]

Continuing from a previous post in which I added a Google Map of the visitors to my blog, this post will discuss how to take the same information and present it in a Visifire chart. Visifire is an open source Silverlight charting component which is very easy to use and well documented. [More]