While I am technically away on a sabbatical that is focused on providing support for Microsoft Windows in the Phoronix Test Suite, which will make PTS the first full-featured, open-source testing framework that is compatible with Linux / BSD / OpenSolaris / OS X / Windows operating systems and its numerous test profiles, work on a new benchmark has also commenced.This new benchmark, which can be f
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Allow remote connections to your MySQL server
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Now, it's time to see how you can extend that MySQL server to remote machines. Why would you want to do this?
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ATI Linux 2009 Year In Review
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Compared to past years when recapping the AMD/ATI Linux advancements over the past calendar year, 2009 was not quite as exciting, which can be viewed as both good and bad for their Catalyst Linux driver.
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Like I mentioned a few days ago, I have an ever-lengthening list of console applications (mostly console applications, in truth) I want to try out in the next few days, once my holiday break starts. Some of the smaller ones I’ve already started tinkering with, and I have a new screensaver now, as a result.
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Vim Tip: using "paste" to avoid the staircase effect
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If you're working in Vim and paste something into the terminal, sometimes you'll get a "staircase" effect where each line is progressively spaced farther outward
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How to get VAAPI Accelerated HD Video on the MSI Wind U110 (GMA500 - Poulsbo) and Ubuntu Karmic 9.10
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I've finally managed to get it running. FullHD videos with only 30 % cpu on an Atom netbook. Here is what I had to do...
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Where is Samba going?
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Every few months the Samba developers have started releasing a status and direction report called "The Samba Team Blog".
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Is Code Auditing of Open Source Apps Necessary?
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Following Sun Microsystems' decision to release a raft of open source applications to support its secure cloud computing strategy, companies may be wondering if they should conduct security tests of their customized open source software before deployment.
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KDE extends Polkit support to polkit-1
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Today, the first version of polkit-qt-1 and polkit-kde-1 have been released to the public. Thanks to these tools, KDE applications now integrate nicely with the new polkit-1 with a native authentication dialog. An authorization manager, the equivalent of the Polkit Authorization System Settings module, will be included in future releases. Find out more about PolicyKit on Freedesktop.org..
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Hands on: Moonlight 2 brings Silverlight 2, bits of 3, to Linux
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Novell has released Moonlight 2.0, a major update to its open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application framework. The new version introduces support for managed code and the DLR.
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How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 9.10
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system.
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Unigine offers two free benchmarks - Tropics and Sanctuary. I ran both demos using OpenGL (because OpenGL runs on both platforms natively and DirectX does not).
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Use DokuWiki to publish & manage content
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Our latest tutorial will help you to get started with DokuWiki and show you how to extend its functionality with plug-ins…
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Wordpress 2.9 with Undo and Media Editor
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The free content management system, Wordpress, now available in version 2.9, (codename Carmen), comes with some major changes.
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Send Outgoing Email with Postfix
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If you're running a web application with user registration, you may need to have users or administrators receive email from the application. When you just need to send outgoing email and don't need to receive, it&'s easy to set up Postfix to do this for you. You can even set the "from" header so that replies will go to your own email account. This how-to was tested on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server.
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