These days there are plenty of ways to back up your computer files. The options are easy when you're dealing with one computer -- just back up your files to an external hard drive and forget about it -- but when several machines are involved, each with a different operating system, things can get complicated.
Read more »The power of cross-platform synchronization
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Rinetd - redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another
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rinetd redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another, with basic IP-based access control.rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections to the address/port pairs specified in the file /etc/rinetd.conf.
Read more »Four Useful FUSE Implementations
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FUSE is a project that makes it easy for developers to build filesystems and virtual filesystems, by allowing their code to run in userspace, rather than at the kernel level...In this post, I’m going to round up four useful implementations of FUSE and briefly explain what each one does and how it could be useful to you.
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Google's Bigtable
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Big Table is an ongoing research project to create a structured database that will operate in a distributed environment. It is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers.
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Using Emacs for Rails development - The perfect setup
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"Lately, I’ve started digging more and more into Rails, preparing for the start of a Rails powered project. Although there are some IDEs offering decent Rails support(namely NetBeans, Komodo and Aptana Studio) I have always preferred the comfort of Emacs for various reasons. So naturally I embarked on a quest to setup a suitable environment for Rails development in Emacs.
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Ubuntu Tweak Utility Review
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As a rule, I am generally leery about various user created "tweaking utilities" available for any OS, much less Linux. Not because I am afraid to trip something up that I do not fully understand, rather fully understanding what I am doing but lacking the confidence in the application itself to do what I could do from a command line or configuration file instead.
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Jump start your Web app deployment with a JumpBox
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Software installation, deployment, and configuration can be a headache and a time sink for systems administrators. To ease the process, JumpBox delivers preconfigured Web apps that run as virtual appliances on any machine, across platforms, irrespective of operating system.
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Eight Reasons for Linux OS Is Like a Religion
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1. Christianity has Jesus as Lord and Savior. Linux has Linus Torvalds.
2. Jesus Christ was followed by the disciples, while Linux Torvalds was assisted by the original programmers.
3. Christianity has different Denominations. Linux has Distributions.
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Explore your database with Talend Open Profiler
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Over time, organizations replicate, migrate, or add complexity within database systems, often times losing control of the quality of their data.
Read more »Use xfs_fsr to keep your XFS filesystem optimal
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The XFS filesystem is known to give good performance when storing and accessing large files. The design of XFS is extent-based, meaning that the bytes that comprise a file's contents are stored in one or more contiguous regions called extents. Depending on your usage patterns, some of the files contained in an XFS filesystem can become fragmented.
Read more »BLAG 90000: The Che Guevara Of Linux
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THERE'S an alluring whiff of rebellion about the Linux/Open Source community. I like it that way because it reminds me of the days when I was young and argumentative and had the energy to try to make a difference.
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Control Your Linux Server Remotely with GnuPG, procmail, and PHP
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How many times has this happened to you: you want to access a remote server, but you can't because it is behind a firewall? I frequently found myself in such a situation when I needed to access my Internet-connected server running Linux, so I thought of a system where I could start controlling my server remotely via a simple email.
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How to install Cacti in Debian
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Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box.
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Install Transparent Proxy and Content filtering in Debian Etch
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This guide will walk through the setup and installation of Debian GNU/Linux and Squid proxy. Optionally, DansGuardian may be used in addition to provide URL blacklisting and content filtering. This guide will also work in CentOS, Ubuntu Dapper and later versions of Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu and Debian Internet Gateway (IP Masquerading)
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This is a step by step tutorial how to make an Internet Gateway using Debian or Ubuntu machine.
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