Will a new feature make C the answer to the parallel programmer's dreams?
Read more »Parallel Programming: I Told You So
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H.264 VA-API GPU Video Acceleration For Flash under Gnash
Nice article at Phoronix about using hardware decoding for Flash videos under Gnash.
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Linux botnet discovery points to lazy administrators
Recently, a Russian security researcher discovered a 100-node Linux "cluster" that was running a botnet which was, in turn, connected to a group of desktop machines. Altogether these machines were serving up malware.
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KVM Virtualization Performance With Linux 2.6.31
Earlier this month at the Red Hat Summit where Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 was released with support for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine. At this Red Hat event, virtualization -- particularly KVM -- and cloud computing were the most talked about topics. But how is KVM performing these days?
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Database Storage Performance Testing in a Hurry
I was mainly interested in numbers that were close enough but that I could also have some confidence in. Being able to say that moving from X to Y will give us a 4X boost in performance is sufficient for my purposes.
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The very first bug in Ubuntu... the most critical?
A few days ago, just to do something, I wandered on launchpad.net putting my nose in the Ubuntu bug: it always gives me a good feeling to see how the faults are not hidden but rather exposed and solved with the help of the community ... one thing I like about Linux, absolutely.
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KDE 3.5.10 packages released for Slackware 13
Just as an update to my Upgrading KDE 4.2.4 to KDE 3.5.10 in Slackware 13 post, Patrick Volkerding has apparently released KDE 3.5.10 for Slackware 13.0 (link here).
Read more »Google's open source Noop language takes off
Developers get ready for yet another open source language to help make it easier to run code on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
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Build a custom firewall with fwbuilder
Fwbuilder is a powerful firewall creation tool that works by adding objects to build a customized firewall. An object can be just about anything from a firewall, a library, a host, interface, address, DNS name, etc.
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LD Port Report 1.12 update, Can now Follow CDP neighbors during the report option.
We are happy to announce the release of Port Report 1.12. In this release, we can now follow CDP Neighbors while using the --report or -r options. Before when you used the --report option, the script will report on just that one switch. Now if you pass the --follow or -f option with the --report or -r option, port_report will follow the CDP neighbors and create multiple CSV files.
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Cisco Routers Powered By Linux
Cisco has its own networking operating system, IOS, which has long been the mainstay of its routers and switches. But now Linux is powering a new generation of Cisco networking devices for small businesses.
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How To Install And Configure Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) On CentOS 5.3
This tutorial explains how you can install and configure APF - an interface to IPTables which lets you easily configure a full featured firewall to secure servers and workstations connected to a network. This guide describes an example installation on a server with cPanel but it's only a matter of port numbers which must be open for everything to work. APF can be used on any system.
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RAID's Days May Be Numbered
In my opinion, RAID-6 is a reliability Band Aid for RAID-5, and going from one parity drive to two is simply delaying the inevitable.
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Code project: create a Python Twitter bot
Once upon a time, there was a person who decided that people needed more distractions in their lives, so he created Twitter.
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Cool things with SELinux... Introducing sandbox -X
This allows administrators to take untrusted content, run it through one or more filters, and be able to trust that the content can't cause the filter programs to do evil things.
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