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ITWire: Can you run your business on Linux and open source? Readers tell us you can.

Ok, I’m a bit of a political junkie – but hopefully this is useful to some … I’ve made a quick-and-dirty dot NET 2.0 app to pull down the results off the virtual tally room web site every five minutes.

You can download the .exe right here. It’s about 11Kb, and requires you have the .NET 2.0 framework installed.

ITWire: One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. And one person’s primary means of instructing a computer is met with disdain by another. There’s a perennial battle between mousers and keyboard jockeys, and “what’s in” appears to go in cycles. I ponder that here.

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ITWire: Part two of building a great hosted WordPress site for nix!

Part one told where to find free high quality web hosting, and part two takes you through some key steps in customising WordPress – themes, dealing with comment spam, making money from AdSense and getting search engine stats.

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ITWire: Welcome to the Linux Distillery.

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Check out my brand new Linux blog on ITWire, with postings twice-weekly.

http://www.shahine.com/omar/default.aspx#a94255528-8f88-4a97-8fc0-2c659934c1ae … but yet Sony STILL haven’t released it in Australia. Come on!

ITWIre: Ok, not really nothing: it’ll cost you $9.99 for a domain name. But once you’ve got that, here’s how to build a dynamic and high-class online presence with free web hosting and the powerful open source blogging and content management system WordPress.

This isn’t just your basic story about how to buy a domain name: we’ll add content and features, bring it to Google’s attention and also try and see if it can bring some money back in.

In this two-part story, we tell you the whole end-to-end process and give you real tips and advice from experience.

Here’s part one.

And here’s part two.

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