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Ext4 is now the primary filesystem on my laptop
01.07.2008 10:18
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<b>tytso's journal:</b> "Over the weekend, I converted my laptop to use the ext4 filesystem. So far so good! So far I’ve found one bug as a result of my using ext4 in production..."
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Linux Experiences 'Prolific' Growth, Says Linux Foundation's Zemlin
01.07.2008 09:16
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<b>Enterprise Linux News:</b> "Formed by the 2007 merger of Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group and home to Linux's creator Linus Torvalds, the Foundation promotes the use of Linux through support for kernel development; the development of common definitions, standards and best practices; and resolution of legal issues..."
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Seven Reasons to Move to Linux
01.07.2008 09:16
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<b>Small Business Computing:</b> "“Migrating from Windows 2000 to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is no more difficult for end users than migrating to Windows Vista,” said Richard Giroux, IT manager at Whitelaw Twining. “We did a little up-front training with our employees and have had almost no help desk calls since.""
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June 2008 Top500 Supercomputer Sites Dominated by Linux
01.07.2008 07:14
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<b>Top500 Supercomputer Sites:</b> "With the publication of the latest edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers today (Wednesday, June 18), the global high performance computing community has officially entered a new realm—a supercomputer with a peak performance of more than 1 petaflop/s (one quadrillion floating point operations per second)."
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Microsoft tactics push India toward Linux
01.07.2008 06:28
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<b>Linux Watch:</b> "One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. It sounds like Tamil Nadu's volume purchasing agent decided to use Linux exclusively after being put off by Microsoft's bundling tactics for academic users."
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Using Strings To Safely Get Program Usage Information On Linux And Unix
01.07.2008 04:37
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<b>Linux and Unix Menagerie:</b> "One way I've found that is virtually foolproof, and works in every distro I've tested, is to use the "strings" command to extract usage information. If you've ever used strings before, you know that distilling what it spits out when you run it against a command to a universally acceptable output of help information for any and/or all binaries is next to impossible. The Linux version of the crash command comes much closer to doing this, and doing it better. But, for the rest of us (even those without the privilege to run "crash"), we can still get the information we need using "strings", like so:"
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Using Strings To Safely Get Program Usage Information On Linux And Unix
01.07.2008 04:37
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<b>Linux and Unix Menagerie:</b> "One way I've found that is virtually foolproof, and works in every distro I've tested, is to use the "strings" command to extract usage information. If you've ever used strings before, you know that distilling what it spits out when you run it against a command to a universally acceptable output of help information for any and/or all binaries is next to impossible. The Linux version of the crash command comes much closer to doing this, and doing it better. But, for the rest of us (even those without the privilege to run "crash"), we can still get the information we need using "strings", like so:"
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Ah Another Opening for Desktop Linux
01.07.2008 04:36
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<b>TechTreasures:</b> "My colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols recently wrote a piece on his fine Practical Technology blog called Dear Microsoft, Thanks for the help, Linux in which he argues that Microsoft’s ill-timed decision to cut off easy access to XP tomorrow (June 30th) combined with its announcement it would be releasing the next version of Windows in January, 2010 effectively lends a death blow to Vista and creates a huge opportunity for desktop Linux. With all due respect to my esteemed colleague, this is not the first time I’ve heard such a prediction."
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Ah Another Opening for Desktop Linux
01.07.2008 04:36
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<b>TechTreasures:</b> "My colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols recently wrote a piece on his fine Practical Technology blog called Dear Microsoft, Thanks for the help, Linux in which he argues that Microsoft’s ill-timed decision to cut off easy access to XP tomorrow (June 30th) combined with its announcement it would be releasing the next version of Windows in January, 2010 effectively lends a death blow to Vista and creates a huge opportunity for desktop Linux. With all due respect to my esteemed colleague, this is not the first time I’ve heard such a prediction."
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Last.fm - Open-source Application for Last.fm Radio Review
01.07.2008 04:36
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<b>Echoes:</b> "Last.fm is an open-source application licensed under the GPL, allowing you to listen to Last.fm radio stations and submit the songs in the same time. For those of you unfamiliar with Last.fm, it's a great social music community, allowing you to submit songs you currently listen to, statistics, forums for bands or music styles (or even more: Amarok has a group, most major distributions also, and you can start your own group about anything...together with information for each artist, open for anyone to edit, just like the Wikipedia style."
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Last.fm - Open-source Application for Last.fm Radio Review
01.07.2008 04:36
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<b>Echoes:</b> "Last.fm is an open-source application licensed under the GPL, allowing you to listen to Last.fm radio stations and submit the songs in the same time. For those of you unfamiliar with Last.fm, it's a great social music community, allowing you to submit songs you currently listen to, statistics, forums for bands or music styles (or even more: Amarok has a group, most major distributions also, and you can start your own group about anything...together with information for each artist, open for anyone to edit, just like the Wikipedia style."
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The Invisible Closed Source Overhead - Part 2
01.07.2008 04:36
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<b>Brendan Scott’s Weblog:</b> "Because of the Tragic Closure of closed source software, a purchaser is typically required to make a decision to buy one of a range of products, each with overlapping feature sets and other characteristics...In such an acquisition therefore, a wrong decision can end up being very expensive."
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The Invisible Closed Source Overhead - Part 2
01.07.2008 04:36
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<b>Brendan Scott’s Weblog:</b> "Because of the Tragic Closure of closed source software, a purchaser is typically required to make a decision to buy one of a range of products, each with overlapping feature sets and other characteristics...In such an acquisition therefore, a wrong decision can end up being very expensive."
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Easily Track Intrusion Attempts on Your Web Site
01.07.2008 04:36
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<b>DeveloperWorks:</b> "Detect intrusions, and prevent attacks from ruining your Web designs and application programming using Snort, a free and open source Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS) and Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) tool. In the first article in this series, you installed Snort and made sure it could detect packets, log traffic, and be prepared to detect intrusions. In this article, learn what the data inside those packets means, and how you can use that data to infer whether attacks are occurring and alert system administrators to those attacks."
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Easily Track Intrusion Attempts on Your Web Site
01.07.2008 04:36
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<b>DeveloperWorks:</b> "Detect intrusions, and prevent attacks from ruining your Web designs and application programming using Snort, a free and open source Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS) and Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) tool. In the first article in this series, you installed Snort and made sure it could detect packets, log traffic, and be prepared to detect intrusions. In this article, learn what the data inside those packets means, and how you can use that data to infer whether attacks are occurring and alert system administrators to those attacks."
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