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Installing mod_geoip For Apache2 On Fedora 9
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This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with Apache2 on a Fedora 9 system. mod_geoip looks up the IP address of the client end user. This allows y ... ![]()
Linux Mint 5.0 Builds Upon Ubuntu Hardy
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Linux Mint, one of the popular desktop distributions that's based off Ubuntu, has come out with version 5.0 "Elyssa" that builds upon the 8.04 Hardy H ... ![]()
X Server 1.4.1 Is Released, No Joke
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Today -- just 212 days after the planned November launch date -- X Server 1.4.1 is finally released! Daniel Stone announced its release this morning o ... ![]()
GCC 4.3.1 Released With Bug Fixes
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It's been just under three months since GCC 4.3.0 was released with support for Intel's SSE4.1/SSE4.2 instruction sets and experiment C++0x support, a ... ![]()
Save disk space - use compFUSEd to transparently compress filesystems
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The Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) project allows you install new filesystems without touching your Linux kernel. The filesystems run as regular progr ... ![]()
IBM, Los Alamos smash petaflop barrier, triple supercomputer speed record
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IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory have built the world's first petaflop machine, a supercomputer named Roadrunner designed to ensure the safety a ... ![]()
Only a Few Could Dream of This!
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The main post in the article is simply a rehash of what helios stated his blog about a certain school in California. Christian Einfeldt himself clarif ... ![]()
FreeBSD 7.0: Not Yet
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Those of you who have enjoyed our series on theFreeBSD Desktop are due an update on the situation with the 7.0release. I recommend against it, for now ... ![]()
Hands On With the Ubuntu's Netbook Remix
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Phoronix has more details about the much-anticipated Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a version of Ubuntu designed for UMCPs, that Canonical recently announced. ... ![]()
Multi-finger gesture support for Linux Laptops
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Hardware on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows allows for gestures beyond point and click that create more-efficient navigation. Discover the tools needed ... ![]()
Installing and using OpenVZ on CentOS 5
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OpenVZ is operating system-level virtualization based on a modified Linux kernel that allows a physical server to run multiple isolated instances know ... ![]()
3 Reasons Why Your System Might Be Slow
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Computer users expect their systems to work well at all times, but unfortunately this isn't always the case. If your system becomes slow, there certai ... ![]()
Microsoft's standards bid stalled
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Four countries have appealed a decision to fast-track the international standardisation of a Microsoft document format, called OpenXML. Brazil, India, ... ![]()
Rock star Linux: remixed, unplugged and live
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Ubuntu is on the verge of enhancing its already good name as the most end-user friendly Linux distribution by coming out with its own mobile-optimised ... ![]()
Sun SOA launch sucks in open source
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You remember SeeBeyond Technologies? Rather successful application integration company? Lots of really big customers and $140m in annual revenue? Purc ... ![]()
The future is bright for Linux filesystems
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LXer Feature: 10-Jun-2008In a recent article,Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future?, Henry Newman expands on what he feels are shortcomings in curr ... ![]()
Beginning a Rails app -- for beginners
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If you are used to programming CGI, PHP, or any application not built on a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework, the learning curve for Ruby on Rails ... ![]()
Comic touches keeps Rain-Slick Precipice fun
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When edgy, risque, and retro all come together in a video game, smart people stay off the street. Off the streets of New Arcadia, circa 1922, that is, ... ![]()
The Future of Wine-Review
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I thought I'd share with everyone who uses this resource what the future of Wine-Review entails. I also want to thank everyone for your support over t ... ![]()
Four Questions Facing Ubuntu Netbook Strategy
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Canonical has finally 'branded' its Internet-centric device strategy for Ubuntu. The company says 'Ubuntu Netbook Remix' devices will emerge as aff ... ![]()
OpenOffice.org template collections
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Stubbornly, OpenOffice.org continues to ship with only a handful of templates. Despite the efforts of several sub-projects and individuals to change t ... ![]()
BitTorrent: Taking down DMCA takedown notices
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Courtesy of groklaw a great research paper (pdf) from the University of Washington dissecting under which assumptions DMCA copyrights infringement tak ... ![]()
UNIX file system fragmentation
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In the Windows world file system fragmentation is usually handled by periodically using a defragmenting utility on the affected file system. UNIX vigo ... ![]()
Etelos Adds Open-Source Hosting
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Software-as-a-service provider Etelos announced a new addition to its offerings over the weekend: hosted installations of some major open source proje ... ![]()
Technology Today: Linux A new user's review
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I have been a Microsoft user for a majority of my life. I started out with a 66 megahertz computer running MS-DOS on a very fancy black and green moni ... ![]()
Eclipse framework overshadowing proprietary embedded tools
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A gradual shift that has been under way for years may now be on the verge of moving the embedded-tool industry from proprietary to open-source archite ... ![]()
Report: Virtualizing the Embedded World: Vista Over Linux in a Cell Phone?
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While you probably won't run Vista as a virtual machine on your cell phone, there are many viable use cases of virtualization for embedded application ... ![]()
Tuxpaint is fun for kids and adults
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My granddaughter has been sitting on my lap at the computer since before she could even hold herself up. She was only a few months old when she became ... ![]()
Netbooks pre-loaded with Ubuntu
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The Canonical OEM team has been approached by a number of OEM's who want to sell netbooks (small, low-cost laptops with an emphasis on the web) based ... ![]()
Revenge of the Nerdette
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As geeks become chic in all levels of society, an unlikely subset is starting to roar. Meet the Nerd Girls: they're smart, they're techie and they're ... ![]()
Linux drives the world's fastest computer
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Roadrunner running on Linux, breaks a modest threshold of 1,000 trillion calculations per second on Monday. ... ![]()
This week at LWN: Getting the right kind of contributions
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Most free software projects encourage contributors it is the rare project that has an overabundance but contributions vary greatly in quality. Encoura ... ![]()
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