Once again, Google has bought something only to open source it. This time it’s ReMail, first acquired, then put on Google Code as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. (It previously did the same thing with DocVerse.) ReMail was more efficient in terms of system resources than Apple’s own mail.app, it offered full text searching, and it had other neat ... [
Apple’s suit against HTC could end one of two ways. Either Apple becomes the next SCO, which ran itself aground claiming rights to Linux, or it becomes the next Microsoft, which is prospering while claiming to own Linux. The answer depends on how hard Apple presses its case. You can get a clue by looking at who Apple has sued. While ... [
The low-hanging fruit in the renewable energy business still lies with efficiency. Cutting your energy use without crimping your lifestyle gives you a faster payback than turning into Ed Begley Jr. It’s still good to be a little Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) on energy use, even if your politics are to the right of Rush Limbaugh, because there’s money in saving, ... [
The 311 service has been a “red headed stepchild” for American cities practically since it was launched in the mid-1990s as a phone service. (Picture from Moonbattery, a conservative blog.) The idea was to make 311 the 911 for non-emergency calls. A burning building call 911, a burning question call 311. But that charge was so broad that most cities did ... [
In all the talk about New York financier Paul Singer’s plan to go all Gordon Gecko on Novell, one word has not been mentioned nearly enough. Microsoft. Microsoft needs a viable Novell, and Novell’s Linux business was on the verge of becoming viable when Singer’s Elliott Associates swooped in with an offer to break up the company, seize its cash, split ... [
Dries Buytaert of Drupal and Acquia is warning that Software as a Service is becoming a threat to open source and that clouds could create the same vendor lock-in customers sought to avoid with open source. (This is Dries at last year’s Drupalcon in Paris, in a close-up of a photo by Pedro Lozano. From buytaert.net.) Even where SaaS companies let ... [
That first step is interoperability. Getting proprietary gear to work together, to transform reports among proprietary standards, is the first step on the road to an open world. The HIMSS show takes that step every year with what it calls its Interoperability Showcase. At this year’s show in Atlanta it occupied the whole end of one hall of the Georgia World ... [
The announcement by Twitter that it is switching to Cassandra for its database lookups puts new attention on a project that has yet to reach Version 1.0. Cassandra had been underway long before Oracle bought Sun and mySQL. Facebook first launched it in 2008 to power their inbox search feature. It was released on Google Code in 2008 and became an ... [
Today Matt Asay urges government buyers to support open source, open data and open standards. Why? Because it’s better. Because it promotes competition. Because it gives government flexibility. But after watching government on every level, in various countries, for over half my lifetime, I can tell you the last thing any government wants is to make a decision its successor can ... [
Since I began writing this blog in 2005 I have watched open source move from a fringe idea to something embraced by the IT mainstream. But there are still extremists out there who want to destroy open source. Some of their names may surprise you. What they have done is retreat into a group where they seek not to be identified. ... [
No. Matt Asay hits the nail on the head. In full “knock this board off my shoulder mode,” the Ubuntu COO dares Microsoft to sue Canonical, or Google, or someone else over its Linux claims who might fight back. To torture my recent analogy (analogies can’t fight back), Microsoft isn’t Neville Chamberlain. It’s the guy on the other side of the ... [
In response to my piece yesterday, my Italian friend Roberto Galoppini referenced a piece he did last August called the Open Source Innovation Backbone. Packaged software companies may just use open source to build a common base on which they can innovate. Or they may copy a proprietary product, competing against it together in order to drive out a competitor’s monopoly ... [
Open source may become the default position of customers, but it is still not the first option when a market is new. This is a point open source executives like Matt Asay continue to struggle with, one that closed-source advocates continue to hammer on. (Picture from the Breakthrough Institute.) Open source is shared freeloading. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ... [
Another day, another Microsoft patent deal. This time with Amazon. And more whining from Linux advocates that this is a “Microsoft tax” aimed at making Linux users pay Microsoft for the open source operating system. I have thought that too. But let me play devil’s advocate a moment, using as my text Marshall Phelps’ Burning the Ships. Isn’t Microsoft just buying ... [I came across this HTML Resume Template the other day that was produced by Alex King a few years ago. You can download it here, modify it to fit your needs, and then put it up on your site. I put it on the ETP site so you can see what it looks like.
This template is really designed to enable people who may not be all that familiar with php, html, and may not necessarily even have their own website. That’s all well and good, but I thought that if that’s your target audience it would be helpful if you actually showed folks how to use the thing.
Given the economic climate and all of the people unemployed, I thought I’d take a few minutes and explain the necessary steps. While it can be a bit intimidating, it’s actually not too hard.
You need a domain & website:
- Probably the easiest ways to accomplish both is to use Go Daddy.
- Follow the link to Go Daddy and do a domain search for the domain name you’d like to use. A good choice for a job seeker could be something like www.yourname.com .
- Once you find one you like purchase it. I think you can by a domain for about $10 on the site.
- The next step is to get the domain hosted. You can do that at Go Daddy pretty inexpensively.
- They have a variety of plans available. If you’re new to this and just plan to put your resume up, I would recommend signing up for the lowest cost LINUX hosted plan for one your. You can always upgrade down the road if you need to. I recommend the Linux plan because besides being Open Source and more reliable than windows, the Linux option offers a lot more free applications for your site which you will probably use once you become more familiar with website functionality.
- Once signed up, open your browser to the admin site they send you to, sign in and look around the admin panel to familiarize yourself with some of the functionality.
At this point you need to modify the resume.php download . This isn’t all that hard, even if you don’t know php.
- Open the document call resume.php that you downloaded with your favorite text editor.
- Save it as yourname.php if you want to put it on your website that already exists.
- Save it as index.php if this will be the only item on the site.
- Go into the document and replace all of the boiler plate wording with your own information.
- When you’re done save the document.
FTP the document to your site
- If you don’t have ftp software, you can use fireftp plugin for firefox which is easy to use.
- Use the same password you received for the administrator site.
- Copy the file you created to a folder called htlm which you can navigate to by home >> var >>> www >>> html.
Logout wehn done. Make It shoudl work when you go to your home page. If it doesn’t you should probably that php is turned on which you can check and turn on from the admin console.
Good Luck!
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