Mozilla Corporation has claimed that the transition to Firefox 3.1 won’t be “a major pain-in-the-ass” and pledged developers will not be hit by “surprises along the way”, after royally hacking off users with the 3.0 launch.
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Mozilla insists Firefox 3.1 won't hit bum note for developers
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Ctalk Version 0.0.62a, an Object Oriented Dialect of C for GNU C, Released
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This is the release announcement of Ctalk 0.0.62a. Ctalk is an object oriented dialect of C for GNU C. Although early in its development, the language already offers many advanced programming features.
The Ctalk Home Page: http://www.ctalklang.org/ contains releases, language reference and tutorial, discussion forums, and sample programs.
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GNU Sovix released
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"Sovix is the PHP-based, extensible, customizable, semantic website revision system [...]
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* Sovix at GNU Project http://www.gnu.org/software/sovix/
* Sovix at Free Software Directory http://directory.fsf.org/project/sovix/
* Sovix at Savannah - https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/sovix/
* Sovix at sovix.org - http://www.sovix.org/
Avoid latency while editing remote files using bcvi
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The ability to run both console and graphical programs securely on a remote system using SSH brings you a great deal of freedom. When the communications link to that remote system has high latency, however, running interactive programs such as a text editor on the remote machine can become a real test of your patience.
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Building shared libraries with Libtool
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The person who invented the concept of shared libraries should be given a raise… and a bonus. The person who decided that shared library management and naming conventions should be left to the implementation should be flogged.
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Nohup - Run a Command Even Once your Shell is Closed
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Oftentimes you’ll be in a situation where you want to run a command on a remote machine that will take a long time to complete, but you want to be able to issue the command and then log off and have that command run in the background. There are many ways you could achieve this, perhaps by using cron or at to schedule the command to run right away. However, there is a better way.
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Protecting against evil code fragments with HTML Purifier
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HTML Purifier is a project that helps you ensure that HTML is valid and does not contain cross-site scripting attempts or other nasty attacks. With HTML Purifier you can allow users to post HTML content without letting them insert nasty code that will run in the browser of anyone viewing that HTML.
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Book Review: Building a Server with FreeBSD 7
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My first exposure to Unix was ULTRIX from the Digital Equipment Corporation, a former employer. ULTRIX was Digital's version of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD, Unix) that ran on VAX computers. FreeBSD, also descended from BSD, is a robust operating system for x86 and other architectures.
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GNU CLISP 2.46 (2008-07-02) released
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"Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose, object-oriented, dynamic, functional programming language. CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible, then of Karlsruhe University, and Michael Stoll, then of Munich University, both in Germany. It implements the language described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard with many extensions..."
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Support for 100+ webcams in Linux 2.6.27 (USB Video Class Driver)
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According to a thread on the Linux uvcvideo driver mailing list if everything goes well we will see it included in the 2.6.27 kernel!
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Using SSH as an Ad-Hoc VPN
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Many of us have been in this scenario - you’re on the move, using a random WiFi connection that you can get. You want to browse around to all your favourite sites, including ones where you log in over normal HTTP, but you’re not entirely convinced of the security of the connection, so you don’t.
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Chrooting into a Linux environment
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chrooting is a very important skill that any *nix administrator must know. It's essentially what allows one to repair an existing Linux environment by entering it from another environment. The process is actually relatively simple, and useful for doing tasks such as reinstalling GRUB, repairing a broken kernel, resetting the root password, etc.
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Configure a professional firewall using pfSense
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The guide will take you through the setup of the pfSense firewall with one WAN interface, one LAN interface and one Opt1-WiFi Interface. This guide was written for Linksys, Netgear, and D-link users with no firewall or router experience. No experience is needed with FreeBSD or GNU/Linux to install and run pfSense.
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List of FTP Clients Available in Ubuntu Linux
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FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging files over any TCP/IP based network to manipulate files on another computer on that network regardless of which operating systems are involved (if the computers permit FTP access). There are many existing FTP client and server programs. FTP servers can be set up anywhere between game servers, voice servers, internet hosts, and other physical servers.
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coLinux gets its second wind
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Cooperative Linux (coLinux for short) occupies a unique niche in the field of virtualization -- that of running GNU/Linux natively in Windows. Although begun in 2000, the project has only recently released version 0.72, but it has given the underlying technology to several other higher profile projects such as andLinux and Ulteo Virtual Desktop.
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