See BredMedia.com for Show Notes and more info. Today is Tech day – “The Best of Personal Technology Made Easy”. We’re talking about Ubuntu Linux and the global Free Open Source Software (FOSS) movement. “What the heck is Ubuntu Linux and why do I need it?” Matthew Jording of http is the founder and president of the Linux Users Group of New York, and is with us to discuss what Ubuntu and FOSS is all about and how the average non-technical user can benefit from it. Please email your feedback, comments and questions to: bruce@brucewagner.com or via twitter to: @brucewagner 🙂
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The Screen Savers – Open-Source Music
Leo and the founder of magnatune.com, John Buckman, explain what open-source music is on The Screen Savers Originally aired 2003 on TechTV.
How To Install MAMP & WordPress on OS X (MAG 22)
Learn how to install MAMP for Mac OS X; a freeware web server environment that includes PHP, Apache, and MySQL. We’ll also show you how to install WordPress locally on your machine, and teach about symbolic links. (They are the UNIX equivalent of aliases). NEED TO TROUBLESHOOT? Having Problems? Getting errors? Visit macappguide.com for a great troubleshooting video & installation tips! Mac App Guide is a weekly video podcast. Visit macappguide.com for more information, show notes, and to subscribe for free! MAMP www.mamp.info WordPress: wordpress.org Viewer Survey: macappguide.com Episode #22 for July 22, 2009 Mac App Guide is produced by Market Vision Media and distributed by Orange Media Network. marketvisionmedia.com http Thanks For Watching!
Firefox, Mozilla, & Open Source: Software Design at Scale
(April 3, 2009) John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, and Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox, share their backgrounds and perspectives on how the Mozilla project produces Firefox and other products: what works, what could be better, and what issues they’ve found themselves thinking about most recently. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford Center for Professional Development: scpd.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
Learn How to Install Ubuntu Linux in 5 Minutes
A Tutorial: Ubuntu Linux is a completely free open-source operating system that has many useful features and abilities, and this guide will show you how to try this new OS without harming your Windows system, and it only takes five minutes to learn! This guide will show you how to: -Download and burn the Ubuntu image to CD -Shrink the Windows installation to make room for Ubuntu -Boot to the Ubuntu live CD and begin the installation process -A step-by-step description of what options to choose and when during the installation, including how to manually partition Ubuntu on your hard drive This guide was created for Windows Vista (using the disk manager to shrink Windows and make room for Linux) but should work with Windows XP as well as any version where you can shrink the partition through the control panel. This guide was designed for systems with a single hard disk, but may be used on a multiple hard-disk system with minor changes. For more information on Linux go to www.linuxhaxor.net Check out more of Nixie — http for more of my crazy videos and less crazy tips!
How to Put Adsense on Your WordPress Blog
Video shows you two easy ways to put your Google Adsense code on your WordPress blog.
Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics
Wondering about whether to switch to open source. Here is a economic view of the open source movement.
www.ted.com Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they’re paving the way for a new set of economic laws, where empowered individuals are put on a level playing field with industry giants.