[Year 12 IT Apps] U302

[George Ciotti]

Thanks Ken!
I¹ll look into it

Cheers
George



On 4/30/10 9:54 PM, "ken price" <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Open Source apps like Joomla and Wordpress would be my preferred teaching
> tools if only I could get the techies at my school to provide the appropriate
> environment."
> 
> If you download the MoWeS Portable package, you can run Joomla on a USB memory
> stick, complete with Apache, MySQL and PHP. No installation needed on the
> computer, and the kids can carry their whole Joomla install (apps and data) on
> their own USB stick and use it at home. No need to annoy the techies - keep
> that for something where there is no other option!.
> 
> About the only problem is that it will not run if the Skype client is running
> - took me a long time to realise I had a Skpe service running even though
> there was no Skype app visible
> 
> Oh yes - you can run Moodle, Drupal, Wordpress, MediaWiki, Elgg,  etc in the
> same way. And its free.
> 
> http://www.chsoftware.net/en/mowes/mowesportable/mowes.htm
> 
> Ken, TASITE www.tasite.tas.edu.au <http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au>
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