"This is the second part of a three-part article on the famous Awk one-liners. This part will explain Awk one-liners for text conversion and substitution..."
Read more »International Lisp Conference 2009 -- Lisp: The Next 50 Years
"...The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce the 2009 International Lisp Conference will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sunday through Wednesday, March 22-25, 2009.
Read more »gittorrent: Peer-to-peer Protocol for Synchronizing of Git Repositories
"The GitTorrent Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative git repository distribution across the Internet [...] it is a first step towards applying decentralizing Peer to Peer concepts to Git.
Read more »Perl 6 to break compatibility, support other interpreters
Version 6 of the popular Perl programming language will not be compatible with previous versions, but will open up a new world of custom “languages” and interpreters, according to its founder Larry Wall.
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What Will It Take To Have A Truly Free Kernel?
Knowing when a GNU/Linux distribution is free used to be simple. If all its software had licenses approved by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) or the Open Source Initiative, then a distribution was free. Otherwise, it wasn't.
Read more »Slackware 12.2 is released!
Yes folks, 'tis the season to announce a new release of Slackware. With a shiny new kernel, many package updates, and the newly added ability to install from a Samba share, we bring to you the latest in the stable Slackware 12.x series.
Read more »Ruby mode is now bundled with Emacs !
"Richard has okayed adding Ruby-mode to CVS, and I've done so. I made a few changes with respect to Phil Hagelberg's version at github: ..."
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Using Dovecot with Multiple Domains
Dovecot can be used with Postfix to host multiple domains on your mail server. In this section, the focus will be on creating passwords for users on multiple domains with Dovecot.
Edit your /etc/dovecot.conf file to reflect these changes
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Let’s talk about Python 3.0
This week Python 3.0 was released, and it represents one of those rare instances: Python 3.0 was designed to clear up a lot of now-inertial legacy issues with the Python language and figure out good ways to do things now instead of unquestioningly sticking with what seemed like good ways (or, more often, the least painful ways) to do things five or ten years ago.
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Useful Uses Of netcat
This short article shows some useful netcat commands. netcat is known as the TCP/IP swiss army knife. From the netcat man page: netcat is a simple unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol.
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Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 now available for download
"Please note: Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this beta..."
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GNU Guile 1.8.6 released
"We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.6. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series. It provides a number of portability improvements, bug fixes, as well as several new features..."
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Yasnippet for C style comments
"Are you using yasnippet right? No? Well, in a nutshell is an awesome template system for Emacs, I really recommend it. The template language is very easy to learn and there are templates for a lot of programming languages..."
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Firefox Nightly Beats Chrome in Speed And Webkit Nightly Eats Them For Breakfast.
We already knew that Firefox nightly beats Chrome in speed, the gap is getting wider with the latest Firefox builds (3.2a1pre). While Google Chrome uses webkit as a layout engine it uses it’s own javascript engine called V8. On the other hand webkit developers are quietly tweaking away its SquirrelFish engine for javascript speed increase.
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Keeping an eye on your Web proxy usage with Squid Graph
Squid Graph is a Perl script that takes your Squid proxy server access.log file and generates a Web page showing you statistics about your proxy accesses and transfers, including the number of cache hits and the percentage of requests that were served by the cache alone. With Squid Graph you can see how well tweaks to your Squid configuration are working.
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