It has been well-documented that Ubuntu’s readahead system during boot significantly cuts down on boot time by reducing hard disk seeking via precaching commonly-used files during bootup. This feature, however, only lasts up to the GDM screen.
Read more »Polishing Firefox 9-8-08
In an effort to increase the level of Firefox’s visual and interactive polish, I’ll be posting a list of around 7 bugs every monday from now until we finish up Firefox 3.1. These bugs will involve fixing some rough areas of Firefox 3’s UI, landing icons that we meant to land before shipping, and trying to make sure every last pixel is perfect.
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Korn shell scripting
Korn shell scripting is something all UNIX® users should learn how to use. Shell scripting provides you with the ability to automate many tasks and can save you a great deal of time. It may seem daunting at first, but with the right instruction you can become highly skilled in it. This article will teach you to write your own Korn shells scripts.
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Linux Performance Hunting Tips - Take Copious Notes (Save Everything)
Probably the most important thing that you can do when investigating a performance problem is to record every output that you see, every command that you execute, and every piece of information that you research. A well-organized set of notes allows you to test a theory about the cause of a performance problem by simply looking at your notes rather than rerunning tests.
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Turn your machine into enterprise storage with Openfiler
In my job as a systems engineer, I have handled various storage implementations for our enterprise clients. These may be in the form of direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN), or Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) systems.
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OpenICE.org Officially Launches
OpenICE.org, a community of engineers, hackers, and users, launches today going up against two giants in the mobile computing industry, Microsoft, with its Sync product and Intel with their moblin based car infotainment platform.
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Reduce Power Usage with PowerTOP
PowerTOP is a Linux tool created by Intel to identify software which causes increased power consumption even while your system is not working.
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sptest - a Python unittest extension
The article explains how sptest, an extension to the Python unittest library works and how, using sptest, you can easily customize the way test results are stored.
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Kernel tuning with sysctl
The Linux kernel is flexible, and you can even modify the way it works on the fly by dynamically changing some of its parameters, thanks to the sysctl command.
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Using Virtual Desktops in Linux
After my last, rather lengthy, article about useful graphical tools , I am going to talk about another aspect of the Linux graphical user interface that I also find rather useful: Virtual Desktops. Thankfully, this should be a much shorter article!
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Rubygame Book Part 3 & 4
Continuing the Rubygame tutorial series, part 3 and part 4 are released!
Read more »Remote Shell On Windows From Linux
Before I found out about adtool I was managing users using Windows own command line AD tools via the very cool winexe (Thanks to TMM for pointing me to it in the first place).
Read more »UNIX tips: Learn 10 more good UNIX usage habits
As a follow-up to Michael Stutz's excellent article, this article provides 10 more good habits to adopt that will improve your UNIX® command-line efficiency. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, and discover exactly why these 10 UNIX habits are worth picking up!
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Accounting With FreeRadius & MySQL Backend & Web Based Management with Daloradius
This tutorial explains how to set up a FreeRadius 2.x server for wifi authentication, authorization and accounting in conjunction with mysql & web based management with Daloradius on CentOS 5.x. Production deployment is also possible with minor tweaking. But as usual I do not guarantee anything & take no responsibilities.
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Video Tutorial - Simple Hello World Application in Gambas
Getting up and running and building your first very simple application Gambas is actually a very easy process, especially if you have used Visual Basic in the past. In this short video tutorial, I walk you through how to build a simple ‘Hello World’ project, featuring a graphical interface with a button, which, when clicked, displays a message box.
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