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Read more »Setting Up A High-Availability Load Balancer (With Failover and Session Support) With HAProxy/Heartbeat On Fedora 8
This document describes how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with HAProxy and heartbeat on Fedora 8.
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GNU Source-highlight 2.9 released
"GNU Source-highlight 2.9 has been released. It is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/src-highlite/ and mirrors of that site (see list of mirror sites at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html). GNU Source-highlight, given a source file, produces a document with syntax highlighting..." -- via http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.announce/browse_thread/thread/19d8343...
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Distribution Release: SystemRescueCd 1.0.0
"SystemRescueCd 1.0.0, a Gentoo-based distribution with a collection of hard disk partitioning and data rescue tools, has been released. From the changelog: ..."
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PHP programming on Ubuntu 7.10
We can do PHP programming by any text editor, such as vi and nano. However, a Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is good for debugging.
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Desktop Development for OLPC Laptop
This article shows how to develop and debug a graphical activity in Sugar using Python. The XO laptop includes many innovations such as an inexpensive and durable hardware design, the use of GNU/Linux as the underlying operating system, and an application environment written in Python with a human interface called Sugar, accessible to everyone (including kids).
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Better Linux Sound Management With ALSA
Today we're going to dig into ALSA, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, because I think it's the best tool for managing your Linux sound devices. It's good for managing multiple sound devices, and it works in all Linux environments including other window managers, or no X Windows at all.
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Distribution Release: PelicanHPC GNU Linux 1.3
"PelicanHPC GNU Linux is a new name of what used to be known as ParallelKnoppix, a live CD project with a goal to make it simple to set up a high performance computing cluster. Now based on Debian GNU/Linux (rather than KNOPPIX), the project has announced the release of PelicanHPC 1.3. ..."
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Bash bits, nibbles and bytes: Handling command line arguments.
There are plenty of tutorials out on the web but they tend to shove a whole lot down your throat in one big hard to swallow gob. I intend to make short, sharp and shiny snippets so it is easy to understand and use.
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pQuery where p = Perl
"We have talked about a pQuery before, which was a PHP port of jQuery. Now we have a new pQuery for the Perl community..." -- via use Perl; http://use.perl.org/articles/08/02/29/0512257.shtml
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Howto write an ISO image to a CD-RW from the Linux console
I need to / want to write ISO’s to CD’s from my Linux server, but since I don’t have an X-Manager like Gnome or KDE running, I need to find a way to write the CD’s from the command line with SSH. Luckely the server is right next to me, and it’s got a CDRW drive. It’s an old 24 speed Samsung CDRW, but that’s fine, it can still do the job well.
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Get Ubuntu System facts with facter
a library for retrieving facts from operating systems.A cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from operating systems. Supports multiple resolution mechanisms, any of which can be restricted to working only on certain operating systems or environments. Facter is especially useful for retrieving things like operating system names, IP addresses, MAC addresses, and SSH keys.
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Using "shred" to Securely Delete Files
When you use the "rm" utility, you may think that you're deleting a file, but you're not. All you're doing is removing the file's index--or, inode number--from the hard drive. The file is still there, and can still be recovered, as long as you don't overwrite the space that it occupies with another file. (Even then, recovery experts still might be able to retrieve it.)
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Gplot simplifies gnuplot graph creation
Gnuplot can generate sophisticated graphs and output them in vector or bitmap image formats. It can produce many graph types, and you can customize the way the output will look to a great extent. But the customizability of gnuplot can work against it when all you want a simple line graph comparing two series of data points. In those cases, gplot lets you use gnuplot to create simple graphs using more semantic options to customize the appearance of common graph objects.
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Amaya 10.0 released
"Amaya is a Web editor, developed jointly with W3C, to very simply edit and publish pages that include text (in HTML or XHTML), graphics (in SVG) and mathematical expressions (in MathML). Style is specified with CSS style sheets."
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