System Administrators who remember the day when they did not have a graphics display rarely think about wanting to time travel for the pure joy of using a terminal. It is possible, however, to virtually do so by using either all or mostly text only utilities and perhaps a retro looking X windows desktop.
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Build Web applications with HTML 5
In this article, learn how to detect which capabilities are present and how to take advantage of those features in your application. Explore powerful HTML 5 features such as multi-threading, geolocation, embedded databases, and embedded video.
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Linux: First Release Of nftables
Netfilter maintainer Patrick McHardy recently announced a first alpha-release of nftables, slated to eventually replace iptables as the standard Linux packet filtering engine. Nftables aims to simplify the kernel ABI, reduce code duplication, improve error reporting, and provide more efficient execution, storage and updates of filtering rules.
Read more »A fast guide to system rescue using open tools
Technology is wonderful, until it stops working as expected. Computers have a nasty habit of developing glitches or just going belly up altogether at the worst possible times. There's nothing that can prevent that, but a couple of open source tools can help mitigate disaster and maybe even save the day altogether. With Clonezilla you can create a perfect copy of your system.
Read more »Elevate Your PHP Development with PHP 5.3's Powerful New Features
By typical development conventions, PHP 5.3 only qualifies as a "point release." However, the features packed into this new version are easily the most significant PHP development enhancements since PHP 5.0 was released in 2004.
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Ruby Development Gains Commercial Support on Java as New JRuby Version Looms
The JRuby language is getting commercial support for developers this week, thanks to Ruby specialist Engine Yard.
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Red Hat release OpenJDK 1.6.0 security update
Oracle's recent Java security update is reflected in updates to the open source OpenJDK
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Linux Commands: Making Bash Error Messages Friendlier
Bash error messages, like so many error messages, can be more cryptic than helpful. But the good news is bash has a built-in mechanism for creating your own customized error messages, and you don't have to be an ace programmer to do it. Ubuntu and openSUSE already use this; Akkana Peck shows us how to do it ourselves.
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Two more new applications for creating Ubuntu .deb packages
We have already discussed about Ubucompilator and Debianpackagemaker .This tutorial will show you 2 more new applications for creating Ubuntu .deb packages.
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Vyatta 6.0 adds IPv6 and firewall improvements
Vyatta, an open source networking software and hardware specialist, has announced the release of version 6.0 of its Linux-based router and firewall software
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Cucumber Makes Behavior-Driven Ruby on Rails Development Cool
This article introduces the Cucumber framework, a tool for implementing the Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) methodology. The idea behind BDD is simple: everyone should understand the system features. Cucumber promotes this idea by enabling the features of a system to be written in the native language of the program as either specs or functional tests.
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You may want to avoid hacking your open source CMS
When the Onion decided to hack Drupal 4.7 to make it work for a larger audience than Drupal could handle at the time, it diverted so far from the core build, it was difficult to upgrade after that. Companies considering open source solutions may want to learn from this cautionary tale.
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Linux / UNIX: Encrypt Backup Tape Using Tar & OpenSSL
How do I make sure only authorized person access my backups stored on the tape drives (DAT, DLT, LTO-4 etc) under Linux or UNIX operating systems? How do I backup /array22/vol4/home/ to /dev/rmt/5mn or /dev/st0 in encrypted mode?
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Mozilla Updates Firefox for Security, Ends 3.0.x Branch
Mozilla is out this week with Firefox 3.5.9 and 3.0.19 updates, fixing multiple security vulnerabilities in the open source Web browser's two branches, while announcing that the older of the two branches is being phased out.
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Firefox developers block old CSS leak
The Mozilla developers have described how they intend to fill an ancient privacy loophole which allows a user's history information to be leaked to web applications
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