Open Source

How To Fix JAuthentication Error in Joomla!

Posted by on October 29, 2009 at 12:07 pm

I recently had an error in Joomla! and was unable to log in to the administrator site. The error was: JAuthentication::__construct: Could not load authentication libraries. Username and password do not match I almost panicked. It turned out that I had accidentally disabled the authentication module and plugin thereby denying access to the site administrator. [...]

Microsoft Launches WebsiteSpark Program

Posted by on September 28, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Scott Guthrie has announced on his blog that Microsoft Corporation recently launched a sponsor-based program called WebsiteSpark. The program is designed to help small professional web development and design service companies with 10 employees or less succeed by providing access to business opportunities, support, training, software and solutions. WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers [...]

KDE 4.3.1 Released

Posted by on September 7, 2009 at 3:17 pm

The KDE team has released KDE 4.3.1. This is a bugfix release of KDE 4.3 with a few new improvements. So, users of KDE 4.3 or older versions may want to upgrade it to the new release. From the changelog, a few significant bugs were fixed: More than 25 bugs fixed in KMail, KDE’s default [...]

Device Manufacturers and the fleecing of consumers

Posted by on June 13, 2009 at 7:27 pm

I’ve recently had cause to wonder if device manufacturers purposely make sure their devices are of limited use to people who buy their products. A few examples: I recently bought a couple of NAS devices and each one of them failed woefully to do what was advertised. First is what I actually started calling the [...]

Backup Options for Small Business Owners

Posted by on May 26, 2009 at 10:27 pm

You’ve heard it a thousand times: backup your data. But I still find it rather amazing to walk into a client’s environment and ask, “so what do you do for backup?” and get a blank stare or “oh, we are doing ok”. The “it will never happen to us” syndrome is prevalent in the small [...]