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If you’ve visited this site within the past week or so then you’ve probably noticed a few outages. Last weekend my server crashed. I thought it was an error with the OS but then, after I installed Fedora Core 5 instead of Mandrake 10, it crashed again with similar errors. I ran memory checks on it and all appears to be well in that department. So I threw in an old, small hard drive and did a base install of the OS. So far everything is performing as expected so I’m betting it’s the …read more »

Horde has proven to be a wonderful replacement for most of Outlook’s functionality. I’ve been testing it for about a week now and it’s performed beautifully. PDA syncing is not there yet but Mail, Calendar, Tasks, Notes, & Addresses more than accomodate our needs. Actually, the calendaring module works better than Outlook, without an Exchange server. PDA syncing is in the development release …read more »

I’ve been playing around with Horde for the past few days, most of that time was actually spent just trying to get it up and running. It’s a royal pain in the ass to get working, especially when you’re running a slightly out of date version of PHP. In short, I ended up getting it to work after upgrading much of the PHP MySQL stuff (and associated dependencies).

Overall I think it’s really impressive. I’ve been impressed with virtually all the open-source PHP projects I’ve downloaded and use frequently on my website. This blog is, in fact, an open-source PHP project. I’d love to use Horde to replace crappy-ass Outlook but the problem is syncing with a PDA. I’m just about …read more »