Due to GRUB2 doesn’t allow module entries to accept parameters via command line in meantime , creating corresponding Xen grub2 entries for xenified aka Suse kernels went a bit different from the same procedures on Jaunty and Intrepid Servers.
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News: C is Still the Most Popular Open Source Language
C represents more than 40% of all code written for open source software. But this figure comes from counting lines of code. What about Java and PHP, or C++?
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Bash Shell Scripting Online Course
Scripts are files that contain shell commands which may be short or can be very complex. Scripts just make it easier because you can invoke one command to run all of the commands in the script. Here instead of using 8 separate commands you can use one command to execute all of them.
Read more »How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Debian Lenny)
This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Debian Lenny system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).
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Programming GP-GPUs: Options and Answers
There continues to be plenty of news in the GP-GPU (General Purpose - Graphical Processing Unit) sector. In case you missed the previews, the standard video card now can be used as a data parallel computer right on your desktop!
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X Server 1.6 Lives On With Another Release
X.Org 7.5 that will bear X Server 1.7 has already been delayed multiple times. Originally X.Org 7.5 was supposed to be out in April, but it looks like we are still at least a few months from seeing this important update.
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Slackware 13 Released
Yes it's that time again! After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.0!
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HTML 5 - W3C Working Draft 25 August 2009
"This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
Read more »FreeBSD 8 Getting New Routing Architecture
FreeBSD 8.0, due out next month, will include a new routing architecture that takes advantage of parallel processing capabilities. According to its developers, the update will provide FreeBSD 8.0 with a faster more advanced routing architecture than the legacy architecture.
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The APT2 project
I just started working on a replacement for APT written in Vala and called APT2 (I know, the name could be better). The main idea behind the project is to create a library for working with Debian repositories and packages, and on top of this library a few applications.
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Howto Deploy SIP Witch Clients and Servers
GNU SIP Witch offers a means for individuals, private organizations, and even national governments to easily configure and deploy secure network scalable peer-to-peer media VoIP solutions using free software. This article offers an easy "howto" to help people get started using GNU SIP Witch with Ubuntu.
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fcheck: easy-to-use file integrity checker
fcheck is a program that emails an alert when important files or directories change. This is useful for change control or detecting unauthorized modifications that may indicate an intrusion.
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Fanal released as GPL software!
"Fanal is a dynamic dns client (aka ddclient). It can monitor several IP addresses and update several dns. Written in Perl, it is used on GNU/Linux and probably work perfectly on *BSD. It is intended to be run as a daemon. It is licenced over the GPL v3 terms..."
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ABI compliance checker
ABI-compliance-checker is a lightweight tool for checking backward binary compatibility of shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and data type definitions in two library versions (it checks header files along with shared objects) and searches ABI changes that may lead to incompatibility.
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How to Debug Samba Server and solve user connection problems
How to debug Samba connection problems and stay alive.
Samba logging and Debugging skills that every sysadmin needs.
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