Creating a CodeIgniter application is easier than you might think. Take a guided tour through your first project: a simple Web page with a contact form. If you're a PHP developer, it doesn't take long to make a profound discovery when it comes to your programming language of choice: Large projects can get messy.
Read more »Spam Blocking And Web Filtering With The Untangle 5.3 Network Gateway
Untangle bundles common open-source applications for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on the network in one single Linux distribution. It can be integrated into existing networks either as a router or as a transparent bridge (directly behind the router, but before the switch that connects the client PCs with the router).
Read more »Circular-Application-Menu (C-A-M)
This is a circular-application-menu (C-A-M) prototype mirroring the same structure as the existing application menu for the GNOME desktop. This was originally just a paper prototype which I did back in March 2007, and decided to code over Christmas 2007-2008.
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Tuning MySQL Performance with MySQLTuner
MySQLTuner is a Perl script that analyzes your MySQL performance and, based on the statistics it gathers, gives recommendations which variables you should adjust in order to increase performance. That way, you can tune your my.cnf file to tease out the last bit of performance from your MySQL server and make it work more efficiently.
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Keep an eye on your system logs with phpLogCon
phpLogCon provides a user-friendly Web interface to your system logs. It can handle logs from both Linux and Windows systems, so an administrator can log in to a single phpLogCon site to see what is happening on all the machines on a network.
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21 of the Best Free Linux Productivity Tools
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 21 high quality Linux productivity tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone who wishes to organise their daily life.
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Finnix: Compact Linux distribution for system administrators
Finnix is a live CD distribution designed to assist system administrators in such tasks as system recovery and network monitoring. Based on Debian testing and Linux kernel 2.6, Finnix helps with filesystem and partition manipulation as well as with data recovery, installation of other operating systems, and boot record repair.
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5 Best HTML Editors for Linux
Creating a website has become a lot easier these days, thanks to the more powerful and versatile HTML editors.
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Playdeb - The Gaming Repository for Ubuntu
Tired of finding and downloading packages for games, and having to check for updates youself? Playdeb is a software repository for the games available on GetDeb, who package recent games and applications for Ubuntu.
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Taming your daemons with PSMon
The PSMon utility lets you specify which processes should be running, how much of resources such as CPU or RAM each is allowed to use when it runs, and how many instances are able to be run. PSMon will then ensure that these processes are running and kill off a process if it starts to use too many resources, and possibly restart a process if it has crashed.
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STUNde: a stumpwm/emacs oriented desktop environment
"The STUN desktop environment (STUNde) combines stumpwm, emacs, and various small modules to create a complete power-user desktop. Goals include 100% keyboard AND mouse control, discoverability, and seamless integration between the Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp components of the experience.
Read more »Webmin: can a graphical front end for system administration replace the command line?
This article will tell you how to install and use Webmin, a web user interface mainly used for administering servers. If you are not a sysadmin, don't run away: Webmin can also be used on a single desktop too. You may struggle to remember all the command line operations to manage, say, run levels or various daemons and prefer to do it the GUI way.
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Ubuntu 8.10 Feature Freeze and Kernel Update
Ubuntu 8.10 is now feature-frozen; effort has moved away from adding new features to concentrate on fixing bugs. The final release is on track for October 30th.
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Linux security idiots
There are some Linux system administrators out there who should be glad, very glad, they don't work for me because I'd be firing them today.
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Anatomy of Linux dynamic libraries
Dynamically linked shared libraries are an important aspect of GNU/Linux®. They allow executables to dynamically access external functionality at run time and thereby reduce their overall memory footprint (by bringing functionality in when it's needed).
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