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XMPP Standards Foundation
We’re please to announce that we’ve become a sponsor of the XMPP Standards Foundation .
XMPP has been around since 1999 and was/is commonly called Jabber Instant messaging, but it’s much more than that now as social networks take off and architects are looking for a protocol to glue these systems together. XMPP has s shot [...]
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VPS with 2 and 4Gb :)
I’ve been looking for a VPS solution that offers 2Gb or more for a while now, and Slicehost have something that may run Clearspace!
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You really do need your own enterprise IM system
The article linked below should demonstrate a good enough reason to use an enterprise IM platform rather than public IM. Apart from the levels of ’security’ offered by each public IM network it’s fairly obvious from the embedded chart that your conversations may not be very private…
How safe is instant messaging? A security and privacy [...]
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Dell To Acquire MessageOne
Not sure how I missed this, but I did;
‘Dell will acquire MessageOne, a provider of on-demand e-mail management, compliance and archiving services, for $155 million in cash, the two companies announced Tuesday. Dell said the deal would add to its growing portfolio of software-as-a-service offerings
Rest of the story here.
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It’s all about the support
Support is our driving force at Cleartext, if customers are happy they spend more and give you a bit of leeway when things go off the rails. It’s for this reason I’m recommending JoomlaPlates as a Joomla template provider.
During a recent ‘free’ web site project I needed a good template and selected one of JoomlaPlates, [...]
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Hosted archiving
I used to wonder why companies would want to archive their email externally, given they’d almost certainly be charged a premium. That is until I got a call from a client needing help ‘fixing’ a tape archive that wasn’t restoring.
Of course, it’s all about media rotation, or not having to do it. Hosted archiving not [...]
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Hybrid Hosting
My previous post has prompted me to drop this post in from the new Cleartext Systems web site, which isn’t live yet. (will be by the end of the week).
We’ve (Cleartext via Cool Bananas) been a NetRegistry reseller for many years and recently started using Media Temple in the USA for customers asking for virtual [...]
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Creating Clearspace plugins
Clearspace is an excellent example of a product that makes something more by combining some parts. I bet many of us have thought about how best to use technolgies like blogs, wiki’s and forums.
Well think no more and just install Clearspace and you’re all set, then start creating plugins to get that extra 10% you [...]
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I had to laugh…
Fifteen years ago a young anti-virus industry thought it was cool to have little graphics displaying viruses, then we all grew up and realised enterprise security professionals want trustworthy sensible people looking after their systems. Imagine my laughter when I spotted these on a vendors web site. (lets ignore the flaky description of a virus) [...]
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Joomla 1.5 ‘feature’
Whilst building a new site using Joomla 1.5 I needed to display an RSS feed icon without text, unfortunately the standard mod_syndicate module doesn’t let me save the ‘Text’ Module Parameter empty, it defaults to ‘Feed Entries’.My fix was to edit the default.php file in /modules/mod_syndicate/tmpl/ and remove the code that display this text. this [...]
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