Note that I'm not giving google much advance warning: I mentioned few
of those issues on irc, but they seemed not welcome there. And purpose
of security system of t-mobile g1 is not to protect owner from evil
attacker; rather it prevents owner from using his phone. g1, as
shipped, will not for example allow connecting your notebook to the
internet.

Subversion is a version control system: It keeps a record of changes over the lifetime of a file, allowing you to revert to an earlier version at will. It's particularly useful for code projects, but it can handle, and be useful for, pretty much any type of file (e.g., for tutorials!). It's available as a package for most Linux distros, or as source from the web site.

I try to use FOSS extensively for my scientific work. In fact, when possible, I use only FOSS tools. Among these there is the R programming language. It’s a Free implementation of the S-plus language, and it’s mainly aimed at statistics and mathematics. As the people who read my scientific posts know, I don’t like R much. But sometimes it’s the only alternative.

This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server (both running Fedora 10) that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over.

For years, linux.conf.au has been one of the best places to go to catch up with the state of the X Window System; the 2009 event was no exception. There was a big difference this time around, though. X talks have typically been all about the great changes which are coming in the near future.

This is the third post in the article series “Vim Plugins You Should Know About“. This time I am going to introduce you to a plugin called “matchit.vim“.

VMware is offering a free (LGPL-licensed) client for use with its VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) thin client technology. The VMware View Open Client lets users access personalized, data center-hosted desktops from "almost any" device, VMWare claims.

"Out of the box Gnus might not be too bad speed-wise, but once you’ve added the odd tweak (or 50) you’ll notice it taking a few seconds to open a buffer of, say, 400 threaded emails. For me that’s bare-able but I can see why others might become frustrated (especially coming from Mutt for instance). Below are some tips on how to make things much easier when dealing with a lot of mail..."