This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless CentOS 5.4 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.
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User management with SSSD on shared Ubuntu Lucid laptops
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A few months ago we had a blog entry about shared and personal laptops in schools. The goal of shared laptops is basically that they should behave mostly like shared thin clients: it should not matter which a computer any user chooses to work with.
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Java 6 Update 19 closes 26 security holes
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Several of the vulnerabilities can be exploited to compromise a PC. For the first time since the acquisition by Oracle, a Java bug report has appeared in the form of an Oracle Critical Patch Update
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Using smartctl to get SMART status information on your hard drives
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Vincent Danen has some tips for using the smartmontools package to obtain important information about the health of your hard drives that could provide early warning signs of problems.
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A Sys Admin's Guide to the Server OS of Your Dreams
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If you were to design your dream enterprise server OS from scratch, what would it be like?
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SUSE Studio is powerful OS instance builder
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Today, Novell's SUSE Studio is a Web-based virtual appliance/ISO image creator using SUSE Linux. It has no parallels that we can find for building operating systems instances.
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Mandriva 2010.0 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
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This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Mandriva 2010.0 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
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Linux - a supercharged development environment
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Linux has come a long way from being just a geek's operating system. But there is no doubt that Linux is still the best operating system for geeks and developers.
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Open-Source Software Shortcut, Excluding Directories From Grep
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I work on a project on which I regularly want to grep the directory tree for a particular word but without including the cvs/ and doc/ directories. Happily, grep has an exclude-dir option to do just this..
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The Basics of SQL Joins in MySQL
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After all, pulling data from a single table is easy, but what if you need to query for data spanning three, four, or even eight different tables?
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Kernel Mode Setting (or why your $500 NVIDIA only displays 16 colors)
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Graphics cards from different manufacturers are very different beasts, in fact, often different generations of graphics cards from the same manufacturer can be pretty different too.
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PHP blunders with random numbers
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Andreas Bogk warns that, despite the alleged improvements in PHP's random number functions, random session IDs and other numbers are still guessable
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Break TrueCrypt Hard Drive Encryption Quickly
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The latest version of Passware Kit Forensic has become the first commercially available software to break TrueCrypt hard drive encryption without applying a time-consuming brute-force attack. It was also the first product to decrypt BitLocker drives.
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New Benchmark Comparison of ITTIA DB SQL and SQLite
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ITTIA, a global supplier of embedded lightweight relational database software, demonstrates its database benchmark leadership to application developers of embedded systems and devices, with exceptional results. On an ARM device, ITTIA DB SQL surpasses SQLite, an open source database, in three critical areas: insert, select, and update.
Read more »OpenSSL 1.0.0 arrives
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Version 1.0.0 includes several new features and enhancements, including support for Whirlpool, the free hash algorithm and the GOST cipher suite
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