Hard drives are slow and fail often, and though abolished for working memory ages ago, fixed-size partitions are still the predominant mode of storage space allocation.
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Emacs and PHP tutorial: php-mode
"php-mode is responsible for syntax highlighting, indentation, and other major PHP-specific modifications to your editing environment. There are a number of PHP modes available for Emacs. In this project, you’ll learn how to set up the php-mode available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-mode/ .
Read more »New Fork of Rinari
"I am maintaining a new Fork of Rinari hosted at github http://github.com/eschulte/rinari/tree/master. This is a fork of Phil's Rinari fork which is also hosted available at github..."
-- Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs
* http://rinari.rubyforge.org/index.html
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My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i
As soon as I heard the announcement from bright and bushy-tailed VMWare CEO Paul Maritz that the company was shortly going to be releasing their ESX 3i enterprise-class embedded hypervisor for free, I was absolutely thrilled.
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Install CLAMAV 0.93.3 from source and integrate with sendmail - CentOS 5.2
This how-to refers to the installation and configuration of Clamav 0.93.3 (from sources) on a Linux server running CentOS 5.2 and sendmail.
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KDE 4.1 Released
The KDE team have announced the release of KDE 4.1. This is the first feature release after the initial KDE 4.0 release and is apparently designed to address many of the issues early adopters had with the 4.0 release.
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Testing Web application security using Google's ratproxy
To help developers audit Web application security, Google has released an open source tool called ratproxy. It is a non-disruptive tool designed for Web 2.0 and AJAX applications that produces an easy-to-read report of potential exploits.
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HOWTO: Encrypt The System Manually Upon Installation (Ubuntu 8.04)
Another howto by me concerning encryption. However this one will be pretty intense on graphics. I have a step-by-step guide on how to do a manual full encryption of the system. Due to a bug current in the ubuntu installation, you cannot encrypt the swap partition directly during the manual install. The install will just hang.
Read more »Build a Web spider on Linux
Web spiders are software agents that traverse the Internet gathering, filtering, and potentially aggregating information for a user. Using common scripting languages and their collection of Web modules, you can easily develop Web spiders. This article shows you how to build spiders and scrapers for Linux® to crawl a Web site and gather information, stock data, in this case
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Xataface lets non-technical users edit MySQL data
Xataface is a framework for the LAMP stack designed to allow non-technical users to edit the contents of MySQL databases through a Web interface. While phpMyAdmin is a great tool for database administrators and those who are familiar with SQL and database design, Xataface aims at allowing less technical people to modify the database.
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Howto setup DHCP Server and Dynamic DNS with BIND in Debian
This tutorial will explain Howto setup DHCP Server and Dynamic DNS with BIND in Debian.
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More than a toy
The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux®, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In this article, first in a series, Peter Seebach introduces the features and benefits of PS3 Linux, and explains some of the issues that might benefit from a bit of tweaking.
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Downloading Torrent from the Terminal
There are quite a few applications in linux that has the ability to download torrent from the terminal. rtorrent is perhaps the easiest to use and widely configurable out of all of them.
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tar.gz is the best package format for complex programs
The point of this article is that projects that need to select just one binary shipping method should choose the all-inside-tar-gz, and for good reasons.
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Convert Filenames to Lowercase
After using the mv command all too many times and typing things like mv FILE.TXT file.txt, I wrote this script. I was thinking I could put a new coat of paint on it but, in reality, it does the job and is easy to understand.
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