The Mozilla Labs developers have released version version 0.3 of the Jetpack SDK, adding two high-level APIs
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Ubuntu Server: The Linux OS Dark Horse
Everyone has heard of Ubuntu Linux and how great it is on the desktop, but have you heard that there's a server version of that same uber-cool operating system? There is, and you should know about it.
Read more »Using Nexpose Community Edition on Backtrack 4
NeXpose from Rapid7 is a unified vulnerability solution that scans networks to identify the devices running on them and to probe these devices for vulnerabilities. It analyzes the scan data and processes it for reports. The vulnerability checks in NeXpose identify security weaknesses in all layers of a network computing environment, including operating systems, databases, applications, and files.
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Collecting and analyzing Linux kernel crashes - crash
Welcome to the sixth article in the long series on Kernel crash collection and analysis. It's time to start processing the collected memory cores. Today, we will do just that.
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Fix Window corruption with older ATI graphics cards in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
With older ATI graphics cards with 32MB or less of video RAM some corruption of direct rendered windows, for example OSD notifier windows, might appear. This may be worked around by disabling "RenderAccel" in the Xorg configuration.
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Canonical Creates Independent Professional Ubuntu Certification
With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Canonical is rolling out their brand new "Ubuntu Certified Professional Certification." And it's kind of a big deal, especially when this shows that Ubuntu is gaining traction and adoption. Here's the full details...
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Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers
Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers: Before, we've featured here our top 10 list of Google Chrome extensions. Today, we will share with you some of the best extensions specialized for web development.
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jQuery: Novice to Ninja
I've been looking for a "pure jQuery" book for a while, but there really aren't a lot of good books on the topic out there. When I saw the Castledine and Sharkie book was available, I jumped at the chance to review it.
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Opsview Community edition 3.7.0 released
Opsera have announced that Opsview Community edition 3.7.0 is now available. The network management system, based on Nagios, includes enhancements to notifications, an option to alert on every failure and support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
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Bash Associative Arrays
The bash man page has long had the following bug listed: "It's too big and too slow" (at the very bottom of the man page). If you agree with that, then you probably won't want to read about the "new" associative arrays that were added in version 4.0 of bash.
Read more »The Top 12 Native Linux System Monitoring Tools
System Administrators (SAs) have a tough job. To assist those weary SAs in their quest to conquer their Linux systems, I've devised this list of 12 native Linux system monitoring tools that are always at my fingertips.
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Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Mandriva 2010.0
This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Mandriva 2010.0) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS.
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Three critical vulnerabilities in Google Chrome fixed
As part of its Chromium Security Reward programme, Google paid out $1,000 for notification of one of the reported vulnerabilities
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Linux on 4KB-sector disks: Practical advice
Starting in December 2009, hard disk manufacturers began introducing disks that use 4096-byte sectors rather than the more common 512-byte sectors. Although this change is masked by firmware that breaks the 4096-byte physical sectors into 512-byte logical sectors for the benefit of the operating system, the use of larger physical sectors has implications for disk layout and system performance.
Read more »Working with Suse Studio : An exercise in online virtual appliance creation
Making custom Linux distributions can be an arduous task. Luckily, there are companies out there that are looking to make the process more friendly.
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