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The Power That is GNU Emacs

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"If you've never been convinced before that Emacs is the text editor in which dreams are made from, or that inside Emacs there are unicorns manipulating your text, don't expect me to convince you [...] You see, Emacs isn't a text editor. Emacs is a programming language that you can use to write your own text editor..."

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Ruby Screen Scraping with scRUBYt!

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Each programming language commonly has a host of libraries to assist in the screen scraping/parsing process and Ruby is no exception. To create simple screen scrapers in Ruby I have been using a library called scRUBYt!

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How to Compile a Kernel in Ubuntu 9.04

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The purpose of this Ubuntu 9.04 tutorial is to show you the steps to setting up a kernel that is highly tuned for your CPU, in this case a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading for a workstation.

Step #1: Download and install the necessary tools...

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Obsolete Technology Can Be Yours Today!

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Searching for that one last useless thing to round out your collection? We may have found it!

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Lighttpd by Andre Bogus- Book Review

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This book guides you to everything you will need to know to installing, maintaining and getting the best out of Lighttpd (or "Lighty" if you will). This piece of software is named correctly for its purpose, being a lightweight webserver. There are chapters about building Lighttpd, but even more interesting the book goes in depth about optimizing and securing the software.

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More Funny Applications Errors From Linux, Unix And Elsewhere

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Your Computer makin' you crazy? These error messages may or may not help you out ;)

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Im Linux You Idiots!

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LOL!! I found a hilarious Southpark clip on YouTube titled as “South Park Mac vs. PC vs. Linux”. Check it out, it’s very funny

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The Moon Books Project 2.0 is on it's way

http://moonbooks.info

"I fully intend to use everything I have learned thus far, and create the next generation of The Moon Books Project. It will be faster, easier to use, more professional and all around much more groovy! In the planning stages I have had the fortunate experience to find Packt Publishing.

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How I use Emacs for Getting Things Done on GNU systems

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"I use the Getting Things Done system to keep track of what I'm doing. It works very well for me. My personal stuff I keep track of in paper in a Filofax, but I have a lot more detail to track at work at York University, so I use text files. Here's my system..."

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Learn to Master WordPress Platform

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WordPress is a blogging program that is gaining both popularity and converts. Consequently, there are many books available to help you learn how to best use WordPress, whether you have an account on the WordPress.com site or a site hosted elsewhere running WordPress.

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Funny Linux Video: Battle Of The Startup Sounds

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Yes, he appears to be using a Mac, but he could still be running any number of Linux distros ;)

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Learn how to install and configure Nagios on different operating systems

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Learning Nagios 3.0 is a comprehensive configuration guide to monitor and maintain your network and systems. It is a practical guide to setting up the Nagios 3.0 open source network monitoring tool, installing and configuring Nagios 3 on various operating systems. It will help understand system monitoring and how Nagios works.

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Beginner's Shell Scripting On Linux And Unix: Why And How

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A quick-start shell scripting tutorial for the curious and uninitiated

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Cheep Codification: Meet Emacs

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"Yesterday, I purchased the Meet Emacs screencast. I was n't sure initially if it was deserving the $ 9, but after watching it, I can state without any uncertainty that it is deserving every individual penny..."

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Sabayon 4.1 Gnome Released

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Sabayon Linux is a very full featured DVD sized distribution that is really catching on in the Linux community as of late. The most recent release, Sabayon 4.1 Gnome, includes some very impressive features, and applications. I installed Sabayon 4.1 Gnome this morning and found some great stuff, I really have nothing but good things to say about this up and coming Linux distro.

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