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• PHP, MySQL, Apache2 install HOWTO on Debian 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
  
  Setting up a PHP/MySQL/Apache2 environment on Debian is really easy. I’ll walk through a quick setup and optimization process. I’ve optimized it for a 1.5Gb to 2GB RAM machine with reasonable load.
• Intel CEO: Linux to dominate MIDs 2 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  Intel CEO Paul Otellini (pictured) reportedly told the Associated Press that Linux will dominate sales of mobile Internet devices (MIDs). Meanwhile, ABI Research predicts that by 2013, Linux will outsell Windows by two to one in the combined market for MIDs, netbooks, and UMPCs.
• 6 Scripting Languages Your Developers Wish You'd Let Them Use 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  Several weeks ago, Lynn Greiner's article on the state of the scripting universe was slashdotted. Several people raised their eyebrows at the (to them) obvious omissions, since the article only covered PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl and JavaScript. As I wrote at the time, Lynn chose those languages because hers was a follow-up to an article from three years back. Plus, most IT managers are familiar with at least one of those well-known scripting languages, even if they haven't personally written a line of code in one of them.
• SELinux and Security changes in the 2.6.27 Kernel 3 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  Here's an update on the main functional changes in security for the recently released 2.6.27 kernel.
• * Linux Summit Will Preview New Advanced File System 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  Linux Foundation is organizing a end user collaboration summit this week. A major topic will be a presentation on the new upcoming filesystems - Ext4 and Btrfs. Ted Tso, who is a Linux kernel filesystem developer on a sabbatical from IBM working for Linux Foundation for a year, has talked about the two-pronged approach for the Linux kernel, taking a incremental approach with Ext4 while simultaneously working on the next generation filesystem called btrfs. Read more for details.
• True Infrastructure On Demand 4 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  We already have Cloud computing systems available, however when will we be able to shopping list order our computing power or infrastructure - consider two pricing models, shared and dedicated:
• Scientists say 1 in 10 iPod users could go deaf 4 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  If you spend more than an hour a day in deep intimacy with your iPod, your Zune, or some other MP3 machine, a group of important scientists would like you to turn it down and listen to them.
• Open source gets pragmatic 5 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  Most of the time, changes in the technology landscape happen gradually. Sometimes we can look back and pick out some inflection point--though, in my experience, such are more about storytelling convenience than anything more concrete. However, at least as often, things just evolve until one day we've clearly arrived in a different place.
• Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange 5 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange is a popular mathematical key exchange algorithm. It allows two parties to establish a ‘key’ over an insecure medium such as the internet. As you will see, it doesn’t matter whether the intercepting party captures each piece of transmitted information, they will not be able to break the key in any way, other than the usual brute force method.
• SteelEye joins Linux server failover, data replication 6 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  The all-in-one Linux failover clustering and data replication suite is a cheaper approach to disaster recovery than storage-based methods.
• Canonical Publishes ATI Catalyst 8.11 Beta 6 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  X Server 1.5 was officially released last month with X.Org 7.4, but there had been server pre-releases going back to earlier this year. Fedora 9 had even shipped with an early version version of X Server 1.5. For those using the open-source X.Org drivers, running the latest server is not a big deal, but those with ATI or NVIDIA binary drivers they sometimes can be slow in supporting the latest version. NVIDIA has supported X Server 1.5 for a number of weeks now, but ATI has yet to update their Catalyst Linux driver with such support. With Ubuntu 8.10 being released in two weeks and it's using this newest X Server, how will ATI graphics cards be supported? Well, an interesting event has occurred and we will tell you what has happened in this article.
• Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 4 - Customization, Debian Scripts, Shaping, Firewall, NAT, picoLCD 7 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  Following on from the previous article, I’ve written some scripts which you’ll find in the /root/scripts/ directory of the prebuilt image. I’ve attached and commented them here, as they could also be useful elsewhere.
• The Robot: Hardware List, Wheel Plan, More Ideas, Steps to launch 7 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  Thanks to some further thought and some great comments and suggestions, I’ve got a clearer idea of what I’d like to build, and I’ve devised a preliminary hardware list. I’ve divided this into various categories to help planning and ordering.
• Robot: Initial Hardware Order [rev 2] 8 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  I’ve given up on trying to source separate motors, motor controllers, encoders and brackets. I’m concerned that my knowledge of mechanics and motors is limited, and that I’m going to spend too much time and money trying to build a movement package myself.
• Flimp - Graphical frontend for Command Line Image Manipulation tools 8 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  flimp is a generic graphical frontend to the many excellent command line image manipulation tools available. It allows you to create pipelines of commands that read from standard input and write to standard output. One can view and compare the result of each stage of the pipeline. flimp leaves the input image file untouched; the pipeline is saved in a text file.
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