Administrators can use SafeSquid to granularly distribute bandwidth across the network, depending on user, group, website being visited, mime or file type being accessed, and time / date range. This is achieved by defining the desired situation, by creating a profile under the Profiles section, and then allocating a specific bandwidth (QoS) to that profile.
Read more »How To Configure Granular Bandwidth Management Rules In SafeSquid Proxy Server
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Gzip, Bzip2 and Lzma compared
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There has recently been a discussion about GNU switching from bzip2 to lzma for their distributed tarballs. They still offer gzip tarballs as an alternative. However, Gentoo has been preferring the bzip2 tarballs mostly due to the improved pack ratio of bzip2. Unfortunately, the software for lzma is not (yet) as mature as some would like.
Read more »Towards a dialogue between scientists, civic groups and social movements in Brazil
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"...Science, technology and social and economic interests are profoundly intertwined today, interacting and mutually influencing one another. Many movements that are struggling for changes now recognize that, unless these issues are taken up by many and various groups of citizens, it will not be possible to deal with the challenges of our times.
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The Struggles of France's Three Strikes Law
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"As 2008 began, the international music industry was proudly predicting the dawning of a new age of co-operation between rightsholders, Internet companies and governments.
Read more »House Judiciary Approves Pro IP Act, Modifies Scope of IP Czar, Forfeiture Sections
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"The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation that would make changes to several federal statutes in order to strengthen enforcement of intellectual property rights against domestic and overseas piracy.
Read more »Linux + UMPC = Smokin' Hot
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Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers (UMPC) are so hot right now that major PC manufacturers are competing to create the lightest, fastest and sexiest-looking portable machines imaginable. Most of these emerging sub-notebooks are pre-installed with Linux, and I wasn't surprised.
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Debian GNU/Linux SuiteTelecentro: millions of users for the digital society every year
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The Brazilian Debian GNU / Linux SuiteTelecentro benefits more than 4 millions users every year.
The Brazilian Debian GNU / Linux SuiteTelecentro is a custom solution which is currently being deployed in the Digital Inclusion Program of Banco do Brasil. SuiteTelecentro is used in approximately 2000 telecentres and computer rooms.
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How To select fastest mirror in Ubuntu
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If you want to select Ubuntu mirror which works fastest for you follow these steps this is very important to any ubuntu user to download and install ubuntu packages fastest way.
Read more »Hardy Heron converts an Ubuntu skeptic
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I have to disclose that I have never been a real fan of Ubuntu. I've tried it about every release and had more than my share of issues with it. Ubuntu 8.04 was released last month, and the first reviews mostly spoke of how nice this version was, so I downloaded the i386 version to test. Sigh -- it's rough when you have to change a long-standing opinion.
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The best and worst docks for Ubuntu
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Docks became popular when Mac began using them in their operating system. But these days docks are available on all platforms.
Read more »Top Ten Reasons for a Linux Laptop
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Hopefully, these tips will help settle once and for all why Linux is a perfect fit for any laptop.
Read more »Ubuntu 8.04: Upgrade or clean install?
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Which path should you follow? Should you take advantage of Ubuntu's package manager and use it to upgrade your system to the latest 8.04 Hardy Heron release, or should you download a CD or DVD ISO image and do a clean install?
Read more »Wine 1.0-rc1 Released
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This is release 1.0-rc1 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.0. Please give it a good testing to help us make 1.0 as good as possible. In particular please help us look for apps that used to work, but don't now.
Read more »Behind or ahead
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The problem with Alex Browns validation test is, that he is using a document from OpenOffice.org 2.4 and validates it against the ISO-approved standard. Jesper Lund Stocholm claims that he has created some documents with various versions of OpenOffice.org that doens't validates correctly.
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A plea for community
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Sifting through the news from JavaOne this week, I can't help but wonder when we'll stop developing our personal silos and truly get into community. Sun is a wonderful company, but I'm with Zonker on this one: Do we really need another operating system, application server, RIA platform, etc.
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