Here are the top 10 features that ZFS fans find insanely great...
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FreeBSD bug gives untrusted root access
A security bug in the latest version of the FreeBSD can be exploited to grant unprivileged users complete control over the operating system, a German researcher said Monday.
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MySQL Database Creation for Virtual Accounts
This MYSQL Database Tutorial shows how to use MySQL to create databases that use virtual accounts. Virtual accounts where the user only has access to the services you offer.
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Dealing With Records in Perl
One thing Perl does really well is read in information from a file. There are a couple of useful special variables you can use to neaten up your code when doing this or to alter the default behavior when reading in records.
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Setup OSOL 1002-127 PV Guest at Xen 3.4.2 & Libvirt 0.7.1-15 Dom0 on top of F12 per John Levon
Blog entry "OpenSolaris 2008.11 guest domain on a Linux dom0" was written by John Levon and supposed to help community users to install OSOL 2008-11 DomU at Xen 3.1 Dom0 on top of Fedora 8. It’s core technique utilizes virsh , so is supposed to be applicable to current release of Libvirt as well.
Read more »DNSSEC under attack?
A new vulnerability is now out that attacks DNS servers WITH DNSSSEC installed.
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DRM Change Continues To Cause Debate
With so much of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) work going straight into the Linux kernel -- thanks in large part to all of the work on memory management and kernel mode-setting -- Kristian proposed that the DRM driver code be removed from the separate DRM Git tree. With this message, Kristian created a new DRM repository that dropped all of the linux-core, bsd-core, and shared-core code.
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FreeBSD 8.0 Benchmarked Against Linux, OpenSolaris
With the stable release of FreeBSD 8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test Suite. We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between it and the earlier FreeBSD 7.2 release along with Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 on the Linux side and then the OpenSolaris 2010.02 b127 snapshot on the Sun OS side.
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Natural Language Processing with Python
According to the blurb on the book's back cover, "This book offers a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing, the field that supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation".
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While Plymouth already does a great job at mode-setting to the display's native resolution and then showing the selected Plymouth plug-in and then to switch over to GNOME's GDM quite smoothly as the X.Org Server starts up, this process is getting even smoother now.
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Qt 4.6 and Qt Creator 1.3 Released
Featuring new platform support, powerful new graphical capabilities and support for multi-touch and gestures, Qt 4.6 makes developing advanced applications and devices easier and more enjoyable.
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 6): Infrastructure
Devtmpfs, aka 'devfs 2.0' to its detractors, should allow the Linux kernel to start faster and run without udev. Support has been added for ACPI 4.0 and there are two new make targets which generate kernel configurations attuned to the running system. Changes to the power management subsystem increase data throughput and allow better use of runtime power saving features on modern I/O devices.
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Hot Hypervisor upgrade up to 3.4.2 on Xen 3.4.1 & Libvirt 0.7.1-15 Dom0 on top of Fedora 12
We presume , that xen-3.4.1-5.fc12.src.rpm has been already installed on the system and Xen Host been built via mentioned “rpm” , Libvirt 0.7.1-15 and 2.6.31.6 pvops kernel is up and running at the time of upgrade. Apply following patch to /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/xen.spec
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Vim 201: An Intermediate Guide to Vim
Ready to boost your Vim skills? Many use Vim, but don't make use of nearly all the features. In this guide, we'll take a look at some of the intermediate features offered by Vim, including abbreviations, word completion, and editing multiple documents in the same Vim session.
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Linux 2.6.32 Kernel Benchmarks
With the Linux 2.6.32 kernel being released in a few days, we found it time to benchmark this newest kernel release that brings new drivers, kernel mode-setting improvements, virtualization enhancements, and more.
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