Having a local folder that is automatically synced to secure online storage is awesome. Drop a document in a folder. Boom. It’s backed up to a remote server. Which ones offer the best bang for my buck?
Read more »Using Nginx as a Reverse Proxy to Get the Most Out of Your VPS.
Unravel The Music is a small startup; by that I mean we have no money, no financing, and we are owned and operated by two people. Therefore it is important that we get the most out of our server in terms of performance and cost and we have to do this without having to spend hours worrying about the server when we could be improving our design or code.
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Documenting ECMAScript 5 in Mozilla
"The ECMAScript 5 standard, which lays out the future of what we call JavaScript, has entered the final candidate stage. This is great news for the Web, since the improvements in ECMAScript 5 are going to make Web development better, easier, safer, and more powerful than ever before..."
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Install the GNU ARM toolchain on GNU/Linux (embedded) system
"Many tools are available for programming various versions of ARM cores, but one particularly popular set is the GNU ARM toolchain. Learn more about embedded development using the ARM core, as well as how to install the GNU tools and begin using them..."
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John Fremlin's blog: Teepeedee2 released!
"Finally, I've got round to releasing my Common Lisp web application platform. It is running this blog which has the rather unique feature that comments pop up immediately for everybody whenever anybody comments on an article. It is faster than all(?) other web application frameworks. Please let me know if you can find a faster one! I gave a talk with benchmarks at the Tokyo Linux User Group.
Read more »How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On CentOS 5.3
This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.3 server.
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Why are you not running Apache? New IIS holes should make you rethink your web server
It has been a while since I have played with Apache, I will admit that. The last time I used it, version 2.0 was the norm, and version 2.2 was just coming out of beta. Today of version 2.2.11 is the current version.
Read more »New Java Garbage Collector Designed With Parallelism in Mind
On the one hand, Garbage Collectors simplify developers' lives, but on the other hand, they can become the greatest enemies of a parallelized algorithm's performance. Finally, Java 7 and .Net 4 are going to offer new Garbage Collectors really targeted for multicore microprocessors with large memories.
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ANN: SCSS project development release 0.3.2
"Hi Schemers, I am pleased to announce that the SCSS project has released version 0.3.2, our eighth development release. SCSS is a Scheme module for parsing, querying, and emitting style information compatible with the W3C Cascading Stylesheets recommendation. While SCSS does not itself provide any rendering functionality, it can provide style information to applications and
Read more »Chromium Hits Alpha Release
The Open Source project behind the Google Chrome browser called Chromium has finally established an official Alpha release and it promises to be a very lightweight swiss army knife once completed.
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Emacs 23.0.94 pretest
"Emacs pretest 23.0.94 is now available; this is the fifth pretest for
what will be the Emacs 23.1 release. You can download it via FTP, at the following location: ..."
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Version 1.3 of GNU ed released
"GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the "standard" text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely available.
Read more »Ubuntu Polishes GNU Screen
GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer program that Linux folk have used for ages. It allows you to turn one terminal into many, and run processes even after logging out. In this article we will give a brief overview.
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Kiwi Imaging System - Forge your own operating system images in a matter of hours
Would you like to be able to create custom, ready-to-use operating system images that can be used as VMware images, Xen virtual machines or live DVDs or booted from USB sticks? Would you like to be able to convert your physical installation into a deployable image?
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Sun shines more light on Open Source Kernels
Sun Microsystems will hold its first-ever kernel conference in Australia later this year. Perfect timing, says a company spokesperson, as more and more companies turn to Open Source to remain innovative in harder economic times.
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