Mention Common Gateway Interface scripting to a Web developer, and their first response is likely to be "I use Perl." While Perl has long dominated the CGI scripting world, there are other, and perhaps better, tools available. In this tutorial we'll take a look at CGI scripting with Python, a fast, versatile, multi-platform language.
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How To Virtualise A Physical Linux Machine
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This tutorial shows how you can virtualize a physical Linux machine. It is intended not only for virtualisation, but for any relocation of a RedHat Linux based system from one machine to another.
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How to be a good (and lazy) System Administrator
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If you're anything like the average System Administrator, you are understaffed, underfunded, and overworked. By now, you've also gotten used to the idea that no one knows you exist until the mail server goes down, then you're suddenly on America's Most Wanted.
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Open source sensor controller device shrinks
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The Arduino Project has announced a new compact version of its open source Arduino microcontroller platform called the Arduino Nano. Meanwhile, winners of the Arduino Open Hardware Contest have been announced, and include a security system, a modular robot, and a sweater-clad haptic navigational device.
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C source code analysis framework (Frama-C) released
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A free software Framework for Modular Analysis of C (Frama-C) has been released. It is written in OCaml and uses the C Intermediate Library (CIL). Much more information can be found on the project's "more information" page.
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Expert's guide to configuring Conky
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When it comes to monitoring your Linux system, few tools can rival Conky. This lightweight system monitoring utility can help you to keep an eye on virtually any aspect of your system, and it offers a huge list of options to choose from. But this flexibility comes at a price: all Conky's settings are stored in the .conkyrc file, which you have to create and tweak manually.
Read more »How To Control Download Of Files And Mime Types In SafeSquid Proxy Server
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In this tutorial I will explain how you can block access to specific files using Mime filter. In my earlier tutorials, I have already explained how to create user, group and application profiles. So I will not go into details about profiles, and assume that the reader already knows about profiles.
Read more »Improving Linux Kernel Janitors Project
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In the early days, the project was conceived as a way of getting fresh blood into Linux kernel development by giving new developers fairly simple but generally useful tasks and hoping they'd move more into the mainstream. Currently this process doesn't work very well. Some think bug finding and reporting would do better.
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Open Source Forum Shootout - PunBB
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Welcome back to the open source forum shootout, here at FOSSwire. In this part, I’m going to take a look at PunBB. Like all of the other forum solutions I’ve covered so far in this series, PunBB is written in PHP. The current stable is 1.2.17, and development work is being done on the 1.3 branch. For now, I’ll take a look at 1.2.17.
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Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns
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"Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns collects and distills successful techniques in planning a reengineering project, reverse-engineering, problem detection, migration strategies and software redesign.
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Flickrfs – a virtual filesystem for accessing Flickr photos
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Adding photos to Flickr using web browser can be a very annoying procedure. Thus, the better solution is to use tools, which enable us to maintain our Flickr account directly from the file manager or desktop application. Linux users may choose several solutions. I will present Flickrfs and Desktop Flickr Organizer.
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Rails 2.1: Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc
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"Rails 2.1 is now available for general consumption with all the features and fixes we’ve been putting in over the last six months since 2.0. This has been a huge effort by a very wide range of contributors helping to make it happen..."
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Touchpanel PC boots Linux in two seconds
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Technologic Systems is readying a rugged WVGA touchpanel PC based on a fast-booting ARM9-based single board computer (SBC). The TS-TPC-7390 Touch Panel Computer incorporates the Debian Linux-based TS-7390 SBC, which is equipped with a 200MHz ARM9 CPU from Cirrus and a Lattice FPGA (field-programmable gate array).
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Profiling entire system activity with sysprof
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Profiling an application lets you see what functions are taking up most of the CPU time so you can concentrate your optimization efforts on making the those pieces of code run faster. With sysprof, you can profile all the applications that are running on your machine, including a multithreaded or multiprocessed application or a complex server application that has multiple parts.
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Ruby 1.8.7 has been released
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"Akinori MUSHA announced today that Ruby 1.8.7 has been released. The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature enhancements backported from 1.9 and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous release to a high degree. See the bundled documentation for details about compatibility issues..."
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