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18 Jun

Firefox 3 released - Firefox 2 bookmarks fix

Posted by ScottCrumpler in bookmarks, firefox, open source, tutorial

Firefox 3 has just been released to a massive wave of early adopters, and, based on my experience with the betas and now the production version, I can attest to its performance improvements and cool new interface. However, I ran into a problem when installing Firefox 3, wherein all of my Firefox 2 bookmarks were lost. For all the open source folks here, I thought I'd post a link to mozillaZine's solution to the bookmark problem.

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30 May

45 Minutes to Moodle

Posted by Matt Barton in cms, moodle, tutorial

Really Linux has posted a Moodle tutorial that's supposed to have even newbie Linux users up and running Moodle in 45 minutes: This beginner article by Mark Rais provides step-by-step instructions for installing Moodle, a Learning Management System, on to a Fedora Linux server. It provides everything necessary to setup a full powered intranet web-server that can support course listings, event calendars, student/teacher communication and much more. Best of all, a prototype server can be functional within about 45 minutes. For those not in the know, Moodle is a free alternative to Blackboard or WebCT--nuff said!

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