I noticed some performance problems when I was running two virtual machines simultaneously (a la VMWare Server. When I began looking into this I discovered VMWare was only allowing 1.8 GB of RAM usage for my virtual machines.
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Get More Space Out of Your ext3 Partition
http://martin.ankerl.com –
I have just discovered that ext3 defaults to reserving 5% of its partition exclusively for root, as a precaution measure that your system does not get FUBAR when you use it for your root partition.
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Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r0-TEST-3 has been released
http://www.parsix.org –
"The third testing release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r0 code name `Ramon` has been released..."
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REST and ROA in Rails 2.0
http://hinchcliffe.org –
The free software community should focus on REST architectures; the AGPL license is the best opportunity ;-)
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Web Services without Pain: gSOAP Writes Your XML, SOAP, and RPC
http://technocrat.net –
Bruce Perens talks about a FLOSS tool that generates the wrappings around a web service defined in C/C++. The tool takes care of a lot of the uninteresting aspects of building a web service - the parts that are likely to be exotic to someone coming from a standard C/C++, non-web, development background.
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Linux Kernel Source Code Screensaver
http://micrux.net –
I consider myself to be a geek. Linux and geeks have a long history together. So, naturally there are a bunch of geeky things available for Linux. In this case, I’m talking about screensavers. I was looking for a screensaver that would show me something really cool about my system.
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Emacs: Gnus/Gmail integration (using IMAP)
http://trey-jackson.blogspot.com –
"Like many folks, I use Google for more and more. When I noticed Google's announcement that Gmail supports IMAP, I knew I could read my Gmail from Emacs..."
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Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 3 Released
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com –
"Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 3 was released today. For those that do active bug work please help squash the bugs in 8.04 so we can make a *really* solid LTS release this spring. Release announcement and download locations below..."
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Review: Tux Droid
http://www.linuxjournal.com –
Advanced Linux users can really put their programming skills to the test with Tux Droid. Develop applications, code new daemons or even hack the firmware. Visit www.tuxisalive.com to get started.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS)
http://www.howtoforge.com –
This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier- IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.
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Frugalware 0.8pre2 (Kalgan) released
http://www.frugalware.org –
"The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.8 stable release..."
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4Front Technologies realeases the source code for open sound system
http://www.opensound.com –
4Front Technologies is proud to announce the release of the source code to Open Sound System (OSS) v4.0 under the BSD license for FreeBSD and other BSD compliant operating systems.
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Rails 2: The Top Five Features List
http://www.developer.com –
I thought I'd pen my first Developer.com column of the year in similar fashion, highlighting my personal take on top five features of the new Rails 2 release.
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Weblocks: starting with a blank slate
http://uint32t.blogspot.com –
This is an introductory review of Weblocks, a web framework written in Common Lisp...
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Microformats at Yahoo! - A Firefox 3 Opportunity
http://developer.yahoo.net –
"Microformats are open data formats that some Yahoo! sites support. You can't see them (unless you do a "view source" on a web page), but they're there -- bits of HTML that describe things like contact information (hcard), a review (hreview), an event (hcalendar), or a listing (hlisting). Microformats make data in web pages reuseable since the data is in a standard, canonical, format instead of just a jumble of HTML. Thousands of sites expose their data in Microformats, and that data is available for developers to use. One of the best opportunities for developers to make use of Microformats is in the forthcoming Firefox 3 web browser which features a new global Microformats object and API. The new API makes finding and parsing Microformats trivial and efficient..."
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