I am a great fan of virtualization products, VMware in particular. Player, Server, ESXi, they all offer a range of creative, useful solutions to the computer user when it comes to running multiple instances of various operating systems, all at once.
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ModSecurity: Allowing Google Verification
Webmaster Tools from Google can enhance your understanding of what is making your website work. ModSecurity, a valuable security resource, may block the verification page that is necessary for Webmaster Tools to function. This article will show you how to write a rule that will allow you to use both effectively.
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XKCD: Security Holes
In the rush to clean up the Debian-Open SSL fiasco, a number of other major security holes have been uncovered
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LLVM 2.7 release
This release includes approximately 6 months of development that provide major enhancements and new features over the LLVM 2.6 release. This includes significantly better generated code, improvements to debug information generation and a broad number of new features in the core infrastructure.
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Booting Linux on QEMU ARM emulator mounting the root filesystem through NFS exports.
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How to mount ftp folder to local directory in Ubuntu
This tutorial will explain how to mount ftp folder to local directory in Ubuntu.We have to use Curlftpfs for this purpose.CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl.
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How to Install and configure Pandora Flexible Monitoring System in debian based systems
Pandora FMS (for Pandora Flexible Monitoring System) is software solution for monitoring. Pandora FMS allows monitoring in a visual way the status and performance of several parameters from different operating systems, servers, applications and hardware systems such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers.
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Set up RHEL6 (beta) PV Guest at Xen 4.0 (pvops kernel 2.6.32.10) on top of F12
The schema bellow would work fine at same Xen 4.0 Dom0 on top of Ubuntu 9.10 Server with several issues to be fixed. Virt-install command line would require –os-type=linux –os-variant=rhel5 , symlink for pygrub , invoked by default , should be created pointing to /usr/local/bin/pygrub. On Fedora 12 everything is just ready for RHEL 6 PV DomU virt-install.
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Reasons Why You Don't Contribute To Open-Source Software
Over on the GCC mailing list is a rather lively discussion (especially for being a Friday evening) that only started earlier today. No, it's not about the recent GCC 4.5 release or even our GCC vs. Clang/LLVM benchmarks, but it's about development participation. A developer is asking why you don't participate in contributing to GCC?
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Clang, Chromium, ZFS Improve On FreeBSD
Daniel Gerzo with the FreeBSD project has issued a status report concerning work going on within FreeBSD and related projects for the first quarter of this year. Catching our interest in particular were the updates surrounding LLVM/Clang as the compiler for FreeBSD's base, the Chromium web browser porting efforts to FreeBSD, and ZFS file-system enhancements.
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Bash: Handling Command Not Found
After a recent O/S version upgrade (to openSUSE 11.2) I noticed that bash started being a bit more intelligent when I did something stupid: it started giving me a useful error message when I typed the name of a command that wasn't in my PATH but that was in an "sbin" directory. My reaction at the time was "huh, that's nice", but today I decided I needed a bit more information.
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Linux System Information Decoded
System Administrator Dilemma #942: Send a Data Center Service Tech out to pop open the case to tell you what’s in your system or use two simple commands.
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Analyzing I/O performance in Linux
Monitoring and analyzing performance is an important task for any sysadmin. Disk I/O bottlenecks can bring applications to a crawl. What is an IOP? Should I use SATA, SAS, or FC? How many spindles do I need? What RAID level should I use? Is my system read or write heavy? These are common questions for anyone embarking on an disk I/O analysis quest.
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NetBeans 6.9 Beta arrives
The 6.9 Beta of the Java IDE includes support for JavaFX GUI building, Ruby On Rails 3.0, PHP Zend and Spring 3.
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Linux Professional Institute and IOSN Introduce New Exam Proctor Program
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced a program of exam proctor training and exam labs undertaken with the cooperation of the International Open Source Network (IOSN: http://www.apdip.net/projects/2003/iosn).
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