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Die-shrunk x86 SoC draws 2 Watts at 1GHz
November 22, 2008 (6:00:00 AM) - 18 minutes ago
DMP Electronics announced a 32-bit x86-compatible SoC (system on chip) claimed to run Linux using under two Watts. The Vortex86DX targets home gateways, thin clients, and industrial controllers, and offers an "embedded redundancy" feature that can link two boards, says DMP.
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Webinars explore RTOS-to-Linux driver migration
November 22, 2008 (2:00:00 AM) - 4 hours, 18 minutes ago
MontaVista Software announced two educational webinars on porting real-time operating system (RTOS) drivers to embedded Linux. Presented by Linuxpundit.com's Bill Weinberg (pictured) on Dec. 9, the webinars will show developers how to migrate their device interfaces from VxWorks to Linux, says MontaVista.
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Apple, AT&T Sued Again Over iPhone 3G Issues
November 22, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 6 hours, 18 minutes ago
A New York iPhone 3G user has filed a class action suit against Apple and AT&T Wireless, claiming the device does not deliver promised network capabilities and the smartphone's casing is prone to hairline cracks.
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Mandrake Linux Founder Back, Virtually
November 21, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 8 hours, 18 minutes ago
Why the founder of Mandriva Linux is back in the saddle at new open source startup that offers virtual desktops.
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Open Source 101: An Executive Guide to Open Source
November 21, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 8 hours, 48 minutes ago
The success of open-source software has been remarkable, forcing even the largest commercial software vendors such as IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Oracle and Microsoft to acknowledge its influence and, in some cases, adopt its methods. It seems likely that most companies with information technology departments of any size are familiar with — if not actively using — open-source products on a daily basis.
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Convoluted Column Arithmetic Examples Using Awk On Linux Or Unix
November 21, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 9 hours, 18 minutes ago
Today's going to be a "fun with awk" day. I figure we should have one now because we never had them in school when I was a kid... The topic, as the title suggests, has to do with columnar arithmetic or, less pompously put, performing arithmetic operations on columns or, even more accessibly, adding stuff up ;) It's somewhat like our older post on doing simple cumulative math with awk, but slightly more confusing.
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Building an OpenBSD Gateway
November 21, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 9 hours, 48 minutes ago
A gateway is a piece of equipment that performs various networking functions, like filtering IP packets ('firewalling'), Network Address Translation ('NAT'), routing of IP packets across one or more networks ('routing'), and serving up IP addresses to clients attached to the network ('DHCP'). Quite often gateways are called 'routers', although as we've just seen, gateways do more than just route network traffic.
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Creating a Daemon with Python
November 21, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 10 hours, 18 minutes ago
If you are an average internet user, then you interact with daemons every day. This article will describe what daemons do, how to create them in Python, and what you can use them for.
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USB devices spreading viruses
November 21, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 10 hours, 48 minutes ago
USB thumb drives are convenient, popular and often free--and they're spreading viruses like sailors on shore leave.*
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Install and Configure Cacti Monitoring tool in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Server
November 21, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 11 hours, 18 minutes ago
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.
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Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner
November 21, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 11 hours, 48 minutes ago
MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved.
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Simplifying MySQL Backups with Zmanda Recovery Manager
November 21, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 12 hours, 18 minutes ago
MySQL has become a core component of many data management solutions. Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) provides a comprehensive open-source solution for backup and recovery of MySQL databases. In this review, we've evaluated ZRM for MySQL Enterprise edition version 2.2.
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RedHat customers unswayed by Novell's pitch to switch
November 21, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 12 hours, 48 minutes ago
A Novell promotion promises to minimize the cost of switching to SUSE for Red Hat customers, but the economy and the effort involved in migrating remain obstacles.
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The AIX administrator's guide to learning Linux
November 21, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 13 hours, 18 minutes ago
Most system administrators planning to install Linux on IBM System p eventually run into an important question: Which Linux distribution should I install? This article compares two distributions from Red Hat and Novell, and weighs the pros and cons of each.
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MontaVista touts Android readiness
November 21, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 13 hours, 48 minutes ago
MontaVista announced that it will support developers who use MontaVista Linux with Google's Linux/Java Android mobile platform. In other Android news, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo and Korean handset manufacturer KTF will produce an Android phone next year, says a Reuters story.
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Via panel PC resists shock, liquids
November 21, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 14 hours, 18 minutes ago
Via announced a fanless panel PC that runs Linux, and resists both liquids and dust. The "VIPRO VP7710" includes Via's Eden or C7 processors, a 10.4-inch touchscreen display, gigabit Ethernet, three serial ports, and two USB 2.0 ports, the company says.
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Linux connects TVs to 'Net video
November 21, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 14 hours, 48 minutes ago
Neuros Technology is shipping a set-top box aimed at delivering Internet video on-demand to high-definition TVs. The $300 Neuros LINK works with a free Neuros.TV service to let users play popular video content on-demand, without subscribing to cable or satellite television broadcast services,
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Bash Sub Shells
November 21, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 15 hours, 18 minutes ago
When writing bash scripts you sometimes need to run commands in the background. This is easily accomplished by appending the command line to be run in the background with an ampersand "&". But what do you do if you need to run multiple commands in the background? You could put them all into a separate script file and then execute that script followed by an ampersand, or you can keep the commands in your main script and run them as a sub-shell.
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Linux: Should You Use Twice the Amount of Ram as Swap Space?
November 21, 2008 (2:30:00 PM) - 15 hours, 48 minutes ago
Linux and other Unix-like operating systems use the term "swap" to describe both the act of moving memory pages between RAM and disk, and the region of a disk the pages are stored on. It is common to use a whole partition of a hard disk for swapping. However, with the 2.6 Linux kernel, swap files are just as fast as swap partitions. Now, many admins (both Windows and Linux/UNIX) follow an old rule of thumb that your swap partition should be twice the size of your main system RAM. Let us say I've 32GB RAM, should I set swap space to 64 GB? Is 64 GB of swap space really required? How big should your Linux / UNIX swap space be?
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Linux distros and Apple beat Microsoft’s homepage uptime
November 21, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 16 hours, 18 minutes ago
All Linux distributions have their own home base: their homepage. How well is this homepage taken care of and how well does it perform? To answer these questions we have monitored the uptime and load time of the homepages for 16 Linux distributions for a month.
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