A Dozen Cool Plasmoids For Your KDE Desktop
September 26, 2008
TechWorld: “A plasmoid is an applet developed with KDE’s new Plasma application development environment. More information about Plasma can be found at its Web site.”
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Gentoo 2008.1 Release Solutions
September 26, 2008
Daniel Robbins:“Gentoo seems to be having problems with .’1′ releases - 2007.1 was cancelled and now 2008.1 has been cancelled.”
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Mac Fans Disappointed in GTK+ Port
September 26, 2008
WebMonkey: “Those wanting to run Linux apps on their Mac desktops now have reason to rejoice — sort of. The GTK+ software development framework has been ported to Mac OS X, so it’s now possible to install and run GTK+ applications on your Mac.”
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Running Vhosts Under Separate UIDs/GIDs With Apache2 mpm-itk On Debian Etch
August 16, 2008
HowtoForge: “This article explains how you can install and configure apache2-mpm-itk on a Debian Etch server. apache2-mpm-itk is an MPM (Multi-Processing Module) for the Apache 2 web server. mpm-itk allows you to run each of your vhost under a separate UID and GID - in short, the scripts and configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable for all the other vhosts.”
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Reading Excel Files from Linux
August 16, 2008
Microsoft Excel: “I used to work for a derivatives trading desk, writing spreadsheets. As anyone in investment banking knows, Excel is like the Outlook of the trading floor - traders use it to price absolutely everything; keep the departmental vacation calendar; plan their weddings and name their babies.”
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How To Remotely Install Debian Over A RH Based Distro
August 16, 2008
HowtoForge: “Ocassionally, servers need to be retasked for various reasons. It has always been a challenge when the server has a distribution other than what I need. I do not want to drive to the data center to swap CDs around, so I decided to see if there was a way to remotely install the machine. I found some notes by Erik Jacobsen and used them to come up with an up-to-date how-to.”
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Memo to Sun: Promote MySQL Through Avnet
August 16, 2008
The VAR Guy: “Sun paid $1 billion to acquire the open source database, and The VAR Guy initially praised the deal.”
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Editor's Note: The Future of Computing is the Yugo
August 16, 2008
The future of computing is the cloud. But the cloud is a malware-infested, poorly-coded quagmire, so why are we going there?
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Beef up the Find Command in Firefox
August 14, 2008
IBM Developerworks: “This article presents tools and code needed to add your own text-searching interface to Firefox. With a Greasemonkey user script and some custom algorithms, you’ll be able to add grep -v functionality to text searches — that is, highlighting a first search term where a second one is not located nearby.”
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Review: Bash Cookbook
August 14, 2008
Slashdot: “Bash Cookbook is by no means for the feint of heart. It seems that the book is meant for intermediate and above users of Bash. However, the first several chapters do a significant job of over viewing basic concepts of Bash navigation and combing simple commands. The book quickly changes gears to complex statements on how to get things done in Bash.”
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