UNIX has hundreds if not thousands of commands, and it's impossible to remember every option and nuance. But, happily, you don't have to: man, UNIX's built-in, online reference system, is man's best friend. Take a look at this shortcut guide to the UNIX man pages system.
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Google open sources Wave gravy
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As it strives to replace email, Google has open sourced two chunks of its new-age communications platform, Google Wave. Unveiled to a standing coder ovation at the Google I/O developer conference in late May, Google Wave is a (still-gestating) web platform that crossbreeds email with IM and document sharing, exhibiting a particular talent for near real-time interaction.
Read more »Pro Git book released
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I've been working on a book on Git being published by Apress called "Pro Git", which is being licensed under a CC 3.0 license and as I've just finished some of the final reviews, I've put the entire content of the book online...
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MySQL Sandbox: Treat MySQL Instances like Virtual Machines
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Install isolated side-by-side MySQL instances right the first time with this time-saving virtual manager.
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A First Look at Python Classes
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To begin a discussion of classes, I think we should look back to the 'C' language. In many ways, C is the parent of most modern computer languages. Most interpreters and compilers are written in C. Most of the libraries of the scripting languages are written in C. Therefore, I could argue that modern languages are an abstraction of C in the same way that C is an abstraction of assembler.
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Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Debian Lenny
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FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on a Debian Lenny server.
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NVIDIA Issues 185.xx Stable Linux Driver Update
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While NVIDIA's driver engineers are hard at work on the 190.xx driver series, which among other features does bring OpenGL 3.2 support, for those living by the stable releases there is a new driver that's out today. The NVIDIA 185.18.29 Linux driver was uploaded to NVIDIA's FTP server this morning and does bring a number of changes as listed in their official release highlights.
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Re-comparing file systems
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The previous attempt at comparing file systems based on the ability to allocate large files and zero them met with some interesting feedback. I was asked why I didn't add reiserfs to the tests and also if I could test with larger files.
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Open source API dreams of The Meta Cloud
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The Meta Cloud is one step closer to meta-reality. Last week, at OSCON, a San Jose startup known as Cloudkick unveiled an open source project that hopes to provide a single programming interface for a host of so-called infrastructure clouds, including Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud Servers, Slicehost, and GoGrid.
Read more »Google Wave: Framework and Prototype
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Google developers are giving out about 40,000 lines of Java code for two components of the Google Wave browser software.
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Novell punts tools to make software appliances
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Since earlier this year, commercial Linux distributor Novell has been working to get a set of online tools together, which it hopes will make it the force behind virtual machine server appliances. Today, the online tool, called SUSE Studio, and the related SUSE appliance program go into production.
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Protect Your Network with the Linux-based Untangle Gateway
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Eric Geier introduces the Untangle Gateway, a Linux-based user-friendly Internet shield that provides a firewall, ad-blocking, anti-malware, protocol control, secure VPN, WAN balancing and failover, and other advanced and essential services for safely navigating the big bad Internet.
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Finding Linux Bugs Before they Become Exploits
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It's not everyday that there is a public security exploit published for the Linux kernel, yet that is what happened in early July.
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Howto configure PPTP VPN in Ubuntu Intrepid and Jaunty
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This tutorial will explain Howto configure PPTP VPN in Ubuntu Intrepid and Jaunty
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Running the 2.6.30.1 kernel ultralight
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About a year ago I made some notes about plucking out parts of the 2.6.25.5 kernel — as well as some other ideas. I’ve configured a lot of kernels for a variety of machines in that time, and I have a few more subtractions to recommend.
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