Over the past week there has been a lot of talk about the EXT4 file-system following the announcement that Google is migrating their EXT2 file-systems to EXT4. Their reasons for this transition to EXT4 are attributed to the easy migration process and Google engineers are pleased with this file-system's performance.
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The Performance Of EXT4 Then & Now
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GNU SIP Witch 0.6.0 released
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"GNU SIP Witch is a telephony server that focuses on enabling secure peer to peer media connections.GNU SIP Witch avoids centralized decryption and minimizes overhead by eliminating the need for media processing [...] This release focuses on development of GNU SIP Witch as both a new kind of desktop VoIP integration service and as part of our goal to replace Skype, both at the client and as an Int
Read more »Parrot 2.0.0 Released!
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«...On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 2.0.0 "Inevitable." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages...»
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Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VI: nerd_tree.vim
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This is the sixth post in the article series “Vim Plugins You Should Know About“. This time I am going to introduce you to a vim plugin called “nerd_tree.vim“. It’s so useful that I can’t imagine working without it in vim.
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Microsoft bots perform denial of service on Perl Testers
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The Perl CPAN Testers have been suffering issues accessing their sites, databases and mirrors. According to a posting on the CPAN Testers' blog, the CPAN Testers' server has been being aggressively scanned by "20-30 bots every few seconds" in what they call "a dedicated denial of service attack."
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Drupal's Dries Buytaert on Building the Next Drupal
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Esther Schindler spoke with Drupal's creator about new features in the popular content management system and the tradeoffs of innovation.
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KDE team removes support for underscore, starts enforcing STD3 from RFC1122
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Interestingly, the latest build of KDE 4 (4.3.90 aka 4.4 RC1) no longer supports the underscore character in host names.
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ANNOUNCE: spread.el, a Spread Toolkit client for Emacs
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"Hi, Announcing an implementation of the Spread Toolkit client protocol for Emacs Lisp: ..."
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BerliOS open source project portal falls victim to attack
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In a recent attack on the web server of the BerliOS (Berlin Open Source) open source platform intruders replaced the portal's home page.
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The most insecure part of your network is...
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Sure, It's Secure: "Your desktops' operating systems? Your servers' operating systems? Your firewall? Or..."
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Anatomy of the libvirt virtualization library
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The libvirt library is a Linux API over the virtualization capabilities of Linux that supports a variety of hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, as well as QEMU and some virtualization products for other operating systems. This article explores libvirt, its use, and its architecture.
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Using Linux Text-Stream Filters – A Real-life Example
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For me, the hardest part about teaching the LPI 101 course is teaching about text-stream filters. It’s not that they’re difficult to understand. It’s just that showing the examples of how they work is easy, but showing examples of how they can be used in real life is a bit more challenging.
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Olsrd 0.5.6-r8 released!
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"...This is the 0.5.6-R8 release. It introduce working options to set the source and destination IP of the OLSR packets (both for IPv4 and IPv6) and a more flexible handling config handling..."
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Virsh ( Libvirt 0.7.2) & managing DomUs on openSUSE 11.2
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Recent “zypper update” on November’s openSUSE 11.2 release brought system to the most recent status. Current 2.6.31.8-xen kernel works fine.Seems like a next generation of xen-ified aka Suse kernels is on the go right now. However, i believe,that vm-install on recently updated 11.2 works same way as before maintenance update.
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How to add users to /etc/sudoers
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But what if, as a system administrator, you add a new user and want to give them similar sudo rights? How do you go about doing this?
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