RAID controllers designed for hard disks and IOPS aren't going to cut it in the new world of solid state drives (SSDs) and pNFS, which are capable of feeding so much more data into the channel that streaming bandwidth is going to become the problem for RAID vendors.
Read more »SSDs, pNFS Will Test RAID Controller Design
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Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices
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From time to time there are rumors about OpenSSH zero day exploit. Here are a few things you need to tweak in order to improve OpenSSH server security.
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Five Minutes to an Even More Secure SSH
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One of the most popular articles on this blog is Five-Minutes to a More Secure SSH. My impetus for writing it was seeing too many client’s servers left in a default state where they are vulnerable to brute-force attacks. In it, I basically advocate three things...
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Know when someone accesses your files in GNOME
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Say you want to write a small shell script that locks up your GNOME desktop at specific intervals. What command would you use? In this case, your best bet would be gnome-screensaver-command –lock This has the same effect as you pushing the Lock Screen button in GNOME. You can forge a small shellscript and use this to lock up your desktop when someone launches an application.
Read more »C++0x not before 2010 and without 'concepts'
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The forthcoming standard for the object-oriented language C++ will not be released before 2010. It will also lack the planned 'concepts' mechanism. This is according to information in a Dr. Dobbs Journal article by C++'s inventor, Bjarne Stroustrup. Concepts have been "decoupled" – or in Stroustrup's words "yanked out" – by the ISO group responsible for the standard, Working Group 21.
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Scientific Linux 4.8 with SquashFS and UnionFS
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The Scientific Linux enterprise platform is available in version 4.8. Next to those from the upstream, downloads can be single packages.
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Linux tip: Creating a pixel ruler from the command line
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Learn how to use the Linux command line and some basic Bash scripting techniques to draw lines and text on images using ImageMagick. And create a pixel ruler along the way.
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Intel Celeron Dual-Core Linux Performance
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While nearly all of Intel's attention is focused on their newer LGA-1366 platform with the high-end Core i7 processors and then the forthcoming Core i5 series, there are still plenty of viable processors left for the LGA-775 motherboards.
Read more »Six new editing tools and four plugins. Shutter just got even better
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If you want to do more serious, integrated screenshot stuff then Shutter's the kiddie.
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Gaping Hole in DD-WRT: Router Software with Back Door
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The free router software DD-WRT opens in its version 24(SP1) a huge door due to a vulnerability in its HTTP daemon server.
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FreeNAS: Free and Snazzy Storage Solution
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FreeNAS is one of those surprising projects that not only saves you a huge amount of money but is so simple to use that you'll wonder why there's so much mystery surrounding network-attached storage(NAS).
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SUSE Studio: The Do-it-Yourself Linux
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Linux is well known for being very customizable, but with SUSE Studio, things are taken to an entirely new level. Imagine taking a base template, building on top of it with your personal software choices, and then building it as a bootable ISO.
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Setup Xen 3.4.1 Dom0 via xenified 2.6.30.2 kernel on top Ubuntu 9.04 Server
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Following bellow build Xen Host on top Ubuntu 9.04 Server.It is based on direct clone via “hg” and build Xen 3.4.1-rc8 from xensource.com , applying Andrew Lyon’s 2.6.30 patch set V3 to vanilla kernel 2.6.30.2 along with tuning patched kernel via “make menuconfig” and building xenified aka Suse kernel in Ubuntu 9.04 environment.
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Communicating requirements to kernel developers
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Recently, the question of how user-space programmers can communicate requirements to the kernel community was raised. The ensuing discussion was short on definitive answers, but it did begin to clarify a problem in an interesting way."
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Monitor Linux System Load and Processes With atop
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atop is a handy top-like program that shows system load information in a separate section on top of process information; Juliet Kemp gives us a tour of this useful utility.
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