Perl has been around since 1987 and became an early darling of web developers. These days, however, you don’t hear much about Perl. Everyone seems to be talking about trendier languages like PHP, Python and Ruby, with Perl left in the back as a neglected, not-so-hip cousin.

A build of the nouveau video driver for nVidia cards was included in the Ubuntu repositories beginning with Jaunty.  I've been meaning to test it for a while, and finally found some hardware recently to give it a shot.

[Matt Porter's] presentation explains in detail why Android is not what most people refer to when they say Linux. What most people mean when they say Linux is the GNU/Linux system with it's standard userspace tools, not only the kernel.

Blender (everyones favorite GPL 3D modeling application) also has a build in game engine. And what would be nicer than having a nice competition for game creation?

How to install Octave 3.2 and its Image processing package on Arch Linux. In short, Octave is easy (i.e. pacman -S octave), while Image package requires some additional steps. Also a few, simple Octave commands are shown for image creation and rotation that can be used to test if Image package was installed.

So, what is MySQL Cluster? It is a database solution which tries to solve high availability issues by using multiple synchronous masters (for the lack of a better phrase) in a shared-nothing environment. In order to solve a lot of the latency issues associated with multiple masters, it keeps all the indexed data in memory to enable fast processing of the data.

GRUB 2 is a new boot loader which comes with Ubuntu Karmic Koala. GRUB 2 is in charge of showing the menu that allows you to choose the operating system or Kernel version when your computer starts. This post will explain how to change the background image and colors in GRUB2.