I'm taking Stanford's Open Courseware "Programming Methodology" this semester, but I got stumped early on by the problem of setting up the special Stanford class libraries in my Debian-standard Eclipse installation. The instructions and files available from the website are only available for Windows and Macintosh platforms.
Read more »Getting Stanford's "Karel the Robot" to Run in Debian's Eclipse
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iRedMail:Full-Featured Mail Server With LDAP, Postfix, RoundCube/SquirrelMail On Ubuntu 8.04
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iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.5, iRedMail supports Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04 (it supports both i386 and x86_64). Its object is to make a Linux mail server installation and configuration simple and easy to use. iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users.
Read more »Automatic package update in ubuntu using cron-apt
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The cron-apt package, combines the cron and apt utilities, and provides flexibility and a simpler interface as well as supporting e-mail alerts on errors or new information.
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The Kernel Newbie Corner: "initrd" and "initramfs"--Some Unfinished Business
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Since a few people seemed interested, I'm going to expand on last week's column on initramfs and initrd and summarize what we know so far, tie off a few loose ends and throw in a little more information at no extra charge.
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Jetty 7 arrives from Eclipse and Webtide
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The Jetty developers have released version 7 of their popular Java Servlet container. The source code for the new release is available from the Eclipse Foundation under the Eclipse Public Licence (EPL); Jetty 6 continues to be available from the Codehaus project under the Apache 2 license.
Read more »Linux Server Management: Five Signs You're Doing It Wrong
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Postulate: if you cannot tell a server (be it physical or virtual) to reinstall itself, then simply walk away knowing it will reload and return to full service, you are doing it wrong
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Announcing the Web Application Security Scanner Evaluation Criteria v1
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Web Application Security Scanners are automated tools to test web applications for common security problems such as Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Directory Traversal, insecure configurations, and remote command execution vulnerabilities.
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The realtime preemption mini-summit
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Threaded interrupt handlers came out early in the discussion. This feature was merged into the mainline for the 2.6.30 kernel; it is useful in realtime situations because it allows interrupt handlers to be prioritized and scheduled like any other process.
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Kill Tasks and Prune Home Screens to Keep Android Snappy
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We've been impressed with the speed increases that rooting and moving apps to SD cards can bring to sometimes sluggish Android phones. If you're not about to crack your phone's firmware, the AndroidGuys blog suggests a few optimization tips.
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How the Google Phone Works
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An important factor that sets Android apart from most other mobile operating systems is that it's based on an open source platform.
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Building Your Own Linux Kernel, part 2
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Customizing and building your own Linux kernel means you can add new experimental drivers, get rid of drivers you don't need, fix mistakes created by your chosen distro, and make a lean, mean and fast kernel. Akkana Peck continues her series on kernel building.
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Spotlight: SystemRescueCD
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As much as information technology professionals don’t like it, there are times when emergency measures are necessary. SystemRescueCD is a Linux-based rescue disk that contains a number of outstanding tools that can help you to troubleshoot (and hopefully repair) Linux desktops, Linux servers, and Windows machines.
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Mesa 7.6 Gets Pulled Into Ubuntu 9.10
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Ubuntu 9.10 had its beta release last week and the final release is coming in just three weeks, but this late in the release cycle, it has been decided to pull in the final Mesa 7.6 version. Pulling in this newer code that provides OpenGL acceleration on Linux provides numerous bug-fixes along with support for a greater number of OpenGL extensions on different hardware and other improvements.
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Supercomputers love Linux
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Everybody knows Linux as an open-source operating system - available today for many different hardware architectures - which has become the de facto alternative to the Redmond’s product, especially in the servers segment. We are not going to add some fire on that already “hot” discussion, but rather analyze some real facts and take the appropriate conclusions.
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Debian to harness FreeBSD with kernel port
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The Debian Project is planning a FreeBSD kernel of its disto that'll help fine tune its Linux for web sites and critical network-based deployments.
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