Some distros of Linux has recycle bin such as Ubuntu which you can restore but for the majority, the deleted files seem to disappear forever and without any trace that it ever existed. In this article, I’ve put together list of techniques and tools that can do file/directory recovery on Linux platform.
Read more »An AJAX Erlang Jukebox !
"Our jukebox (mentioned previously) received an update yesterday: it now uses Erlang’s inets httpd..."
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Sun Fire X4600, Combining the Need for Speed With Energy Efficiency
Woo hoo! We got our hands on the first 8-socket Opteron server on the market — the Sun Fire X4600 from Sun Microsystems. This well-designed 4U system packs more power than we knew what to do with (really). That's 16 processor cores, courtesy of the Opteron 8000 series chip. Other important features include
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SiCortex sticks to Summer supercomputer ship
Tied to such a bizarre supercomputer design, SiCortex seemed certain to miss its product ship target. Not so, according to engineer Win Treese, who promised the boxes will arrive this Summer (beta systems out now) as planned, during a speech here at the Usenix conference.
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Server Snapshots: Spotlight on HP
On the surface, there hasn't been a lot of action from HP since its last Server Snapshot nine months ago. That's because there hasn't been much that could be regarded as a stunning new addition to the line up. But the company continues to roll out a steady stream of incremental upgrades, not the least of which was the addition of quad-core chips to ProLiant and dual-core chips to Integrity.
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Optimizing AIX 5L performance: Tuning your memory settings, Part 3
Get an introduction to swap (paging) space, learn how to configure and administer it, capture statistics, and tune your Virtual Memory Manager (VMM) settings to provide for optimum swap (paging) space configuration and performance.
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NVIDIA 100.14.11 Display Driver
It was just two weeks ago that NVIDIA had introduced the 100.14.09 display driver, but today we have another new Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD driver out from the green binary camp. The NVIDIA 100.14.11 display driver adds support for their new GeForce 7 integrated graphics, fixes console restoration problems, and improves some other areas of their Linux (as well as FreeBSD and Solaris) driver.
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Novell still feisty as it pushes Linux alternatives to Microsoft for SMBs
"While Novell's partnership with Microsoft remains the subject of controversy, the NetWare-cum-Linux vendor is still pushing out Linux and open source products aimed at taking market share away from its patent-protection partner."
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Tuning the Linux kernel for better network throughput
The Linux kernel and the distributions that package it typically provide very conservative defaults to certain network settings that affect networking parameters. These settings can be tuned via the /proc filesystem or using the sysctl program. The latter is often better, as it reads the contents of /etc/sysctl.conf, which allows you to keep settings across reboots.
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Set Up A Fedora 7 Mail Server Using Qmail Toaster
"Qmail is an Internet Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for UNIX-like operating systems. It's a drop-in replacement for the Sendmail system provided with UNIX operating systems."
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Create and Extract .gz,.bz2 Files in Debian
"bzip2 and bunzip2 are file compression and decompression utilities. The bzip2 and bunzip2 utilities are newer than gzip and gunzip and are not as common yet, but they are rapidly gaining popularity."
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Sharing your home directory with a VMware Machine
Ubuntu on the Mac hardware is pretty messed up right now (and by “pretty messed up” I mean “get ready to compile and edit kernel drivers by hand” messed up). VMware Fusion to the rescue! With the VMware tools installed, it’s mostly usable. However, it’d be awesome if I could share my /home for both Mac OS X and Ubuntu.
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Subversion Setup and Usage in Linux: Part 1
Given the steady growth and adoption of Subversion by major players in the FLOSS world, it is imperative to understand the working nuances of this open source tool.
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NVIDIA Graphics: Linux v. Solaris
For this article we have taken NVIDIA's latest display driver for Linux and Solaris (v100.14.11) and ran it on both operating systems. Specifically, we had used Fedora 7 with the Linux 2.6.21 kernel and on the Solaris side had used both Solaris Express Developer Edition 5/07 and Solaris Express Community Edition Build 66 "Nevada".
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