Applications can create a lot of temporary files sometimes, and these files aren’t always cleaned up automatically. An example of this is when you run Python applications. Particularly if you’re a Python developer, your source code directories stack up with a .pyc version of each file, which is the cached compiled copy of the script.

Firefox is a great browser that you can easily customize to suit your browsing needs. While the default installation comes with a complete set of features, there are plenty of add-ons that you can use to power up your browsing experience.

Forgive The VAR Guy if he says “I told you so.” Earlier this month he predicted that Asterisk — the open source IP PBX — would win a global distribution deal. He was right. Specific details about the news, involving Digium — one of the top Asterisk companies — emerged today. Here’s the scoop.

I am personally a strong advocate of using the Command Line. However, I am coming from a more tech type of situation than some others do. For the 'average" user however, is the Command Line relevant to everyday use?

Since I’ve started using Twitter, I’ve been on the hunt for a command line version, so I don’t need to start up a browser or send an SMS on my phone. As I found out, it’s pretty darn easy to Twitter from the command line.

Global Server Load Balancing is the automatic routing of users to the nearest / fastest server to them based on their source IP. Typically a GSLB solution requires expensive application switches at each site, and additional software licenses that run into the thousands of dollars.

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects.

Many companies are beginning to see the intrinsic value of open source software for the enterprise but as businesses piecemeal solutions together from a variety of options, it's easy to lose track of each app's updates and revisions -- leading to potential security issues from unknown or undocumented code.

orporations hold a ton of open source code behind their firewalls, and Jim Whitehurst wants to extract it. The Red Hat CEO knows whereof he speaks. Before joining the company he was at Delta Air Lines. In introducing the subject Matt Asay called this code waste. Which gave me a clever idea. Don’t think of these as corporate code contributions. Think of it as code recycling.