Colin Ian King, an Ubuntu Kernel Developer, has released Firmware Test Suite (fwts), a tool for automatic testing of a PC's firmware
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Caching With Apache's mod_cache On Debian Lenny
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This article explains how you can cache your web site contents with Apache's mod_cache on Debian Lenny. If you have a high-traffic dynamic web site that generates lots of database queries on each request, you can decrease the server load dramatically by caching your content for a few minutes or more (that depends on how often you update your content).
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Btrfs Did Regress Hard In The Linux 2.6.35 Kernel
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This morning we published benchmarks of ZFS, EXT4, and Btrfs when running these three popular file-systems off a high-performance OCZ Vertex 2 solid-state drive. To a fair amount of surprise, the EXT4 file-system ended up beating out Btrfs on the SSD in a number of tests.
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Ubuntu Devs Discuss Backports Changes
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I'm greedy when it comes to software: I like having code that works, but I also want the very latest stable versions of my applications. Ubuntu does a good job satisfying the former demand, but it lags behind other distributions when it comes to keeping its repositories up-to-date. Fortunately, this issue has caught the attention of Ubuntu developers as of late, who have been discussing change
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OpenVZ allows a physical server to run multiple isolated operating system instances, known as containers, Virtual Private Servers (VPSs), or Virtual Environments (VEs). It is similar to FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones. In this tutorial you will see how to install OpenVZ in Centos, how to create a VPS or containers and how to install Vtonf- another control panel for OpenVZ.
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Lightspark Gains Faster Rendering, H263/MP3 Video
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Lightspark, one of the newest free software projects designed to provide an open-source implementation of Adobe's Flash/SWF specification, has been progressing at a rather expedited pace. Lightspark continues to pickup new features with each new release.
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Implementing Detailed User-Level Auditing of UNIX & Linux Systems
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Enhance regulatory compliance and troubleshooting through detailed auditing, logging and real-time monitoring of UNIX/Linux user activity.
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Getting Started With Squid Proxy Server 3.1
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The open source proxy server and accelerator Squid has been around since the mid-1990s, helping speed up Internet traffic at both the user and the server end.
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Realtime Linux: academia v. reality
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The Linux Kernel community has a proven track record of being in disagreement with - and disconnected from - the academic operating system research community from the very beginning. The famous Torvalds/Tannenbaum debate about the obsolescence of monolithic kernels is just the starting point of a long series of debates about various aspects of Linux kernel design choices."
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BlindElephant: Open source web application fingerprinting engine
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In this video recorded at Black Hat USA 2010, Patrick Thomas, a vulnerability researcher at Qualys, discusses the open source web application fingerprinting engine BlindElephant.
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Drupal Commons offers open source sociability for enterprises
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Acquia have released Drupal Commons 1.0, a complete open source social networking system for quickly deploying a fully functional social networking site
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Live Kernel Patches with Ksplice
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Avoid reboots of your system with live Kernel updates using Ksplice
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Create professional web applications with new ColdFusion book
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Coldfusion 9 Developer Tutorial covers the new features of ColdFusion 9 such as ORM Database Interaction and CF Builder. This book covers CFScript and guides developers to enhance their user interface with built-in ColdFusion AJAX features.
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Design & build your own open source device
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But let's say a fairy godmother came along (the good one, not the evil one) and made all these problems go away. Would you design your own gadget then? Of course you would. And all you need are some affordable hardware components and this guide to set you off on the right foot...
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SSH Tunneling On Android
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If you want to have a secure browsing environment or just want to access your home network securely without exposing extra services to the internet and without the mess that comes with setting up and maintaining a VPN server, ssh tunneling is your rescuer. This post will tell you how to setup an ssh tunnel to your home network easily step-by-step.
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