Python is a very popular interpreted scripting language. C is a very popular compiled language. Due to its compiled nature, C is generally faster than Python, but is lower-level, making Python programming quicker and easier than C programming.
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How to build a local IMAP server
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The usual practice of configuring your email client to retrieve email from your ISP's servers works well, but not for all situations. Here's a way you can set up a single machine on your own network to fetch and store your email and serve it to any number of email clients.
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Gambas - Almost Visual Basic for Linux
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Gambas is a development environment and platform for Linux and Unix systems. It uses a custom programming language, similar tp (but not the same as and not compatible with) Microsoft’s Visual Basic.
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Adding Heartbeat to your open source SAN: Open source SANs, part 3
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Having a storage area network (SAN) can take a load of stress out of managing the large quantities of data that feed the life of an enterprise. But a SAN can also sap time and money away from that life when it fails to perform at your desired level.
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Regular Expressions: What's Wrong with Erlang?
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Erlang certainly belongs in the category, and we've written about it several times before. Erlang is, among other things, a serious language: its best-known applications are in big mission-critical telecommunications systems, the German national air-traffic control organization, and Facebook's chat.
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Gitso 0.5 Released: Cross-platform remote support
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Gitso was started about a year and a half ago. The last release of this Python app showed us a .deb release. Now with this release, Gitso supports Linux, Mac, and Windows. To do this, we’ve switched from GTK to wxWidgets. Now you can easily take control of someone else’s computer. They just download gitso, type in your ip address, and connect.
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Two useful network-related commands
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ethtool is a command that gives you information on the capabilities of your network card, and the network that it is connected to. The most interesting things are the Speed and Duplex lines, which are somewhat useful when diagnosing some very specific problems.
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A hands-on overview of the Access Linux Platform
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The ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) attracted lots of attention at the most recent LinuxWorld, where it impressed third-party software developers and intrigued mobile Linux enthusiasts. During the event, I got some hands-on time with the ALP software on functioning prototype boards, and I took the official SDK for a test drive.
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Using Apache, Php and MySQL on Mac OS X Leopard
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Here is a quick tutorial on using Apache, PHP and MySQL on Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard. The good news is Apple has already taken care of installing Apache (version 2.2.8) and PHP (version 5.2.6) for you, you’ll just need to make a few tweaks in order to actually use it, MySQL (version 5.0.67) however will need to be installed, lets start with Apache.
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Remember Figlets? They're Back With Zend
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Who knew they would work well to tell humans from bots on Web sites? You can now use them as part of the PHP framework, too.
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A Java Developer’s Pythonic Experience
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For the past few months, it had been a Pythonic experience for me. My former boss talked to me one day and asked me if I could develop a program for a water billing firm. Without hesitation, I said yes and not even thinking of how I'll do it. That time, I was biting my nails and learning deeper about Python. My first problem was the GUI...Tkinter.
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What is new in Firefox Shiretoko Alpha 2?
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You wait ages, well minutes, for a new open source web browser client then a bunch all come along at once. So what's new in Firefox Shiretoko Alpha 2 then?
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Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 now available for download
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"The second developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code named Shiretoko Alpha 2 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only..."
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Getting directories with GNU Wget
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"Sometimes there are files that are available from a Web server using Apache's auto index module (mod_autoindex), and you want to copy them to your machine. And you're satisfied retrieving them over HTTP this one time, rather than another file transfer method like SSH, FTP or rsync for that matter. I usually feel confident retrieving things with GNU Wget ..."
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Up and running with Emacs and Git
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"I code in Emacs. Emacs has good support for version control tool interaction in the vc-mode package. I want to use git and have vc-mode work with git. I also want access to special git commands that the vc-mode does not export directly. The notes below are for Ubuntu Hardy, which is what I use all the time..."
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