At work we image laptops with clonezilla. An average of 10 a day. A colleague and I have created a custom script to speed up the imaging. It is a little script, but it speeds up the restoring because you don't have to make choices anymore. It is fully customizable, and easy to understand.
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Ceph: The Distributed File System Creature from the Object Lagoon
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Did you ever see one of those terrible Sci-Fi movies involving a killer Octopus? Ceph, while named after just such a animal, is not a creature about to eat an unlucky Spring Breaker, but a new parallel distributed file system. The client portion of Ceph just went into the 2.6.34 kernel so learn a bit more about it.
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PHP library eZ Components to be an Apache Project
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Following the loss of it's core development team, eZ Systems and its former developers have submitted the eZ Components PHP library to the Apache Software Foundation's Incubator and renamed it Zeta Components
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The H speed guide to NoSQL
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What is NoSQL? Why does it seem that every day another company starts using a NoSQL database? Will NoSQL replace SQL? The H speed guide to NoSQL answers those questions
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The Perfect SpamSnake - Ubuntu Jeos 9.10
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This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Jeos based server as a spamfilter in gateway mode. In the end, you will have a SpamSnake gateway which will relay clean emails to your MTA. You will also be able to view your incoming queue, train your SpamSnake and carry out a few more advanced operations via MailWatch.
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Mozilla disables older versions of Java plug-in in Firefox
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Mozilla has started disabling older versions of the Java Development Toolkit plug-in in its Firefox web browser in a bid to prevent attackers from exploiting critical vulnerabilities
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Drupal upgrade to be slower but more scalable
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Drupal, the popular open source Web content management system, will sacrifice speed for scalability in the upcoming Drupal 7 upgrade, the founder of the project said on Monday afternoon.
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ModSecurity: Allowing GoogleBot
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One of the big reasons people disable ModSecurity is that they see in their logs continual blocks on Googlebot. Obviously, if Google’s bot cannot list your site you will be in trouble with trying to get people to your site.
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7 Useful Linux Networking Tools
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Eric Geier introduces us to to seven powerful commands for troubleshooting and configuring Linux networking, both wired and wireless.
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Wine update improves Direct3D and 64-bit support
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The new development release of the Wine Windows API implementation features new icons, Direct3D optimisations and several improvements for 64-bit systems
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A visible case against bundled libraries
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I wrote a lot about bundled libraries and why they are bad, but I usually stick with speaking about Free Software (or Open Source Software — yeah they are two different sets!). This time, let me explain you how they are bad for proprietary, binary-provided software as well.
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moc, screen and figlet: A sum greater than its parts
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moc users might know this and might not, but you can poll the moc server process to spit out information about the tune it’s playing.
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How to Install Google Go in Ubuntu
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What do you get when you mix Python and C? According to Google, it’s Go – a new programming language developed in-house and later open sourced. Go was created by a small team inside Google, including the well known Ken Thompson, co-inventor of Unix and major influence on C.
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Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory
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Software engineering tends to be an evolutionary process. Problems are addressed with solutions that can create new problems and subsequently new solutions. Ideally, the new problems that are created justify the original solution. The technology discussed here is one of the secondary solutions to a problem created by server virtualization.
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One of the benefits of Btrfs besides offering competitive performance against other Linux file-systems and SSD optimizations is its support for sub-volumes and writable snapshots. While Btrfs is still in development and is not yet used as a default file-system by any Linux distribution, Red Hat has been introducing support for system rollbacks into Fedora.
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