In spite of currently having a very small user base, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is getting quite a bit of attention lately from the press and the virtualization market.
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Where has my network gone?
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Yes, things do go wrong with Linux, as they do with all other operating systems. Fortunately most of the things which go wrong with Linux are configuration related and on average can be fixed quicker than can be done with other operating systems.
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Security Expert Releases Linux Distribution for Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing
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Dr. Ali Jahangiri, the well known security expert and author of Live Hacking: The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Techniques & Countermeasures for Ethical Hackers & IT Security Experts, is pleased to announce the launch of the Live Hacking CD, a new Linux distribution designed for ethical hacking.
Read more »BuddyPress 1.2 Brings Social Features to WordPress Sites
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WordPress users rejoice! The latest release of BuddyPress finally brings all that social media goodness to standard WordPress installs. With BuddyPress 1.2, it should only take three steps to get BuddyPress working with a standard WordPress install.
Read more »Weird Usage Of “select” in perl
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Many times while going through some perl code, you must have come across snippets like “select((select(fh), $|=1)[0])” and wondered what this means, even though you might know that: * $|=1 is used for setting autoflush (i.e. unbuffered data output) and that * select is used to set the default output to a given file handle instead of STDOUT
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Another ten essential Python tips
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To compliment our ‘ten essential Python tips for beginners‘ and ‘ten more essential Python tips‘ features, we’ve compiled yet another collection of ten gems to make your Python experience that much more worthwhile…
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Open Source embedded operating system Contiki updated to 2.4
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The "operating system for embedded smart objects", Contiki, has been updated to version 2.4 with new experimental platforms and improved stability. The BSD licensed operating system is designed to be small, highly portable and work in networked, but memory constrained systems, such as sensor network nodes.
Read more »Secure your Linux box with MoBlock
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The MoBlock project caters to advanced Linux users and allows them fine-grain control over which hosts are allowed to connect to your computer and which hosts can be connected from the machine. We’ll look at how to install, configure and monitor MoBlock on your Linux machine…
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ECS Elitegroup H55H-M Linux Review
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In conjunction with the launch of the Core i3/i5 Clarkdale processors last month, Intel introduced the H55 and H57 Chipsets...As our first Linux review of an Intel H55 motherboard we are checking out the ECS Elitegroup H55H-M
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dpkg-paranoia - Simple scripts to control installing process
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This little program sets hook on pre-installing package. It unpacks .deb file to /tmp/ and checks wether it satisfies specified rules (requirements of local policy). Already created rules include checks on:
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MeeGo: Paradise lost for N900 hackers?
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Before today’s news I thought I had Nokia’s open-source strategy all figured out. The Symbian Foundation would be a bullet-proof mobile Linux for carrier customization and Maemo would be a gift from on high for power users.
Now I don’t know what to think…
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Ars Technica Guide to Virtualization: Part III
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Virtualization is a key enabling technology for the modern datacenter. Without virtualization, tricks like load balancing and multitenancy wouldn't be available from datacenters that use commodity x86 hardware to supply the on-demand compute cycles and networked storage that powers the current generation of cloud-based Web applications.
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How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10
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This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.
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Important Change to KDE's Security Policy
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Information about security vulnerabilities will no longer be published via the Dot at http://dot.kde.org.
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This is the route to hell
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So I would like to take a few minutes to talk about audio routing in PulseAudio. This is a oft misunderstood topic and it does sometimes seem like black magic and/or broken but, as always, it's pretty simple when you look at it properly.
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