Path to SitePoint Stardom

Our dear colleague Jelena (you can read more about her on our team page) must really love what she does, because beside all the work we are doing together she managed to find time and strenght to be one of the most active people on SitePoint. Now we are proud to announce that Jelena has [...]

Ubuntu: xserver-xorg-core version 10.3. breaks the Xserver!

If you updated your xserver-xorg-core recently, then you’re avare that your GUI ain’t working and all you can do is to login without one. Since I am new to Linux, I need some kind of step by step solutions in order to avoid panic. What you need to do is to update your xserver-xorg-core to [...]

Amazon.com is down!

Just when I wanted to go shopping on Amazon.com it went down! I know it’s not usual that I write about this kind of things, but hey it’s Amazon.com, one of the top 10 properties on the net. The almighty Amazon was one of the sites I thought I’ll never see going offline. It’s 20:50 [...]

BASIC celebrates 40th Birthday

At 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964 BASIC has been born and marked beginning of personal computing. Year before (1963) two Dartmouth’s College professors, Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny, had an idea to create computer language that would be easy to use, but strong enough to make use of ’63 computers – that idea produced [...]