Sourcefabric today announced the launch of Newscoop 4, an open source content management system for news, at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. Developed and used by news organisations like Switzerland’s TagesWoche, ElPeriódico de Guatemala and Yemen Times, Newscoop 4 aims to help independent news organisations manage online publications, enrich content and find new audiences.
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THE ‘TUBE’ OPEN MOVIE PROJECT
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The Tube Open Movie is a new experiment, this time in distributed collaboration — a love letter to free software and open culture that marks their convergence with independent filmmaking. The finished film and its mountain of data assets will be released under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.
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Maintaining Remote Web Sites With sitecopy (Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10)
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sitecopy is a tool for copying locally stored web sites to a remote web server (using FTP or WebDAV). It helps you to keep the remote site synchronized with your local copy by uploading modified local files and deleting remote files that have been deleted on the local computer.
Read more »How programmers can easily choose strong passwords
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Choosing a password is always a trade-off between security and usability. Programmers can shift this compromise thanks to some qualities of their work. The idea is to use lines of code as passwords.
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Installing MySQL-Frontend Chive (A phpMyAdmin Alternative)
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This guide explains how to install the phpMyAdmin alternative Chive. Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool with easy administration, super fast UI and state of the art web technologies. It takes advantage of the capabilities of modern browsers. Features include an SQL editor with syntax highlighting and built-in profiling of SQL queries.
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Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Debian Squeeze
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SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web. It is Google's alternative to the HTTP protocol and a candidate for HTTP/2.0. SPDY augments HTTP with several speed-related features such as stream multiplexing and header compression.
Read more »Configuring DNSSEC On BIND9 (9.7.3) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
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This guide explains how you can configure DNSSEC on BIND9 on Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu 11.10.
Read more »Research To "Reveal the Unseen World of Cookies"
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Slashdot: The Guardian newspaper has teamed up with Mozilla to research the monitoring of online behavior through cookies and other web trackers. After downloading the Collusion add-on for Firefox, you can generate a visual representation of all the cookies that have been downloaded which are linked to the sites you have visited. This shows quite an interesting picture.
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The Legend of Edgar 1.00
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The Legend of Edgar 1.00 is now available. This release adds a short introduction to set up the story.
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Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 11.10
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This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 11.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.
Read more »Virtualization With KVM On A CentOS 6.2 Server
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This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a CentOS 6.2 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g.
Read more »Dr. Geo Android, call for tests
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Dr. Geo, the free interactive geometry software, will soon land on Android. ... I am looking for Android tablet owners to test it on various association of hardware and Android brand. If you are interested to participate to this test campaign, write me privately at hilaire at drgeo dot eu
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High-Availability Replicated Storage With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10
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This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 11.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem.
Read more »Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 11.10
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This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Ubuntu 11.10. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.
Read more »Server Monitoring With Icinga On Ubuntu 11.10
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Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. It is a fork of Nagios. This tutorial explains how to install Icinga on an Ubuntu 11.10 server to monitor this server and another Ubuntu 11.10 server.
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