This video uses Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 to benchmark threading metrics on a parallelized and multithreaded application. Watching this video you will find out that there is an easy to use utility to test multicore optimizations in any executable.
Read more »Checking your multi-core optimizations with a free tool from Intel
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Globalize your Web Applications: PHP's Locale Formatting Classes
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Today, we'll be covering PHP's two remaining I18N Libraries, the I18N_Number and I18N_Currency classes, both of which are subclasses of the I18N_DateTime function.
Read more »Configure Samba with Gadmin-Samba
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But for those that prefer to do things the GUI way, there are plenty of tools available for you as well. One such tool is the gadmin-samba tool from the Gadmintools suite of GUI Linux administration tools.
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6 things that I miss in bash
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What is the most frequently used piece of software on your computer? Here’s one program that holds one of the highest place in my list of most frequently used programs. I am talking about… bash.
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Vim Tip: using "paste" to avoid the staircase effect
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If you're working in Vim and paste something into the terminal, sometimes you'll get a "staircase" effect where each line is progressively spaced farther outward
Read more »Where is Samba going?
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Every few months the Samba developers have started releasing a status and direction report called "The Samba Team Blog".
Read more »Rumours of critical vulnerability in OpenSSH in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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A posting on the Web Hosting Talk forum is feeding speculation about a critical security vulnerability in the OpenSSH server in CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Read more »Is Arch Linux Really Faster Than Ubuntu?
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To test the performance claims of Arch versus others, we have compared the performance of the newest Arch 2010.05 media against Ubuntu Linux.
Read more »Linux Kernel 2.6.32.3 Stable Release
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The 3rd upgrade of Linux kernel version 2.6.32 has been released.
Read more »Convert SpreadSheets to CSV files with Python and pyuno, Part 1v2
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Some months back I developed some pyuno code for converting spreadsheets into CSV files from the command line. Pyuno being the Python interface to the OpenOffice runtime. One of the enhancement suggestions I got was to add the ability to extract all the sheets and/or a specific sheet rather than always extracting the first sheet. The following update to the code does just that.
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Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Nodes With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 9.10
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This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 9.10) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one larger storage server (distribution). Basically, this is RAID10 over network.
Read more »Ruby on Rails 2.3.6 and 2.3.7 released
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Six months of bug fixes, a handful of new features, and a strong bridge to Rails 3, fix of couple of bugs in the HTML-safety changes that may lead to XSS attacks. Rails is free software web framework, optimized for programmers happiness and sustainable productivity.
Read more »Linux kernel 2.6.34 for Ubuntu Lucid
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For all the people who are waiting for the Linux 2.6.34 kernel for Ubuntu the wait is over.
The kernel is available for Ubuntu Lucid right now, the downside is that you have to compile it yourself, the upside there's an article for that.
Bjarne Stroustrup Expounds on Concepts and the Future of C++
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Despite vociferous disagreements over the removal of concepts themselves, nearly everyone agrees that the committee's decision left open many questions not only about concepts, but also about the committee's charter, and even the future of C++ itself.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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