In part 2 of this multi-parter, I’ll be looking at open source forum solution Phorum. Just as before, I’ll cover Ease of Installation, Features, Extensibility and Themes.
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Linux filesystem defragmentation flame war
http://www.ducea.com –
Earlier this week I’ve read this article: “Defragmentation of Linux Filesystems“. The title and the headline made me interested enough, to go ahead and read it and see if there was something there to show me that linux filesystems do need defragmentation.
Read more »Refactoring Erlang
http://www.planeterlang.org –
"I’ve been playing around a bit with Wrangler—an Erlang refactoring package for Emacs. [...] So I whipped up a function to toggle Wrangler on and off: ..." -- Wrangler -- http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/forse/wrangler/doc/overview-summary.html
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Listadmin - Command line tool to manipulate the queues of messages
http://www.ubuntugeek.com –
listadmin is a command line tool to manipulate the queues of messages held for moderator approval by mailman. It is designed to keep user interaction to a minimum, in theory you could run it from cron to prune the queue. It can use the score from a header added by SpamAssassin to filter, or it can match specific senders, subjects, or reasons.
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Lisp: XCVB, a replacement for ASDF
http://article.gmane.org –
"Dear Lisp hackers,I know that it's a time when everyone is thinking about replacing ASDF, so here's my contribution to this maybe preposterous endeavor. [...] XCVB: an eXtensible Component Verifier and Builder for Lisp.
Read more »A coding rules checker for GCC
http://thread.gmane.org –
In the context of the GlobalGCC project (http://www.ggcc.info,
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-10/msg00676.html) we are developing a
facility for automatically enforcing coding rules.
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Quick 'n' Easy LAMP Server For CentOS/RHEL
http://www.howtoforge.com –
This tutorial shows a quick way of installing a LAMP server (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl together commonly known as LAMP Server.) on CentOS and RHEL server systems.
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Open Source Forum Shootout - bbPress
http://fosswire.com –
In this multi-part post, I’ll be going through and looking at several different open source forum solutions. First up, and the subject of this post - bbPress.
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Sweeten your Vim with Cream
http://www.linux-mag.com –
It’s an eternal debate amongst Penguinistas: Emacs or Vim? Unfortunately, for most” normal” (i.e., non-geek) folks, this debate will never occur, since they will find Emacs or Vim way too complicated, strange, and, well… different.
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Installing And Using The Unbound Name Server On Debian Etch
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Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver, released under a BSD license. Version 1.0.0 was released on May 20, 2008. This tutorial explains how to install and use it on Debian Etch, including the creation of zones for your own domains.
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Update IP addresses at dynamic DNS services Using ddclient
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If you are using zoneedit.com or dyndns.org for your DNS service so that you can access your server using a URL, then you might have to update your DNS record at the service periodically whenever the IP address of your computer changes.Now here is simple solution for this ddclient.
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Screened Emacs Launcher
http://www.biais.org –
"I'm used to run emacs from my shell and my mind is not able to switch from the command emacs to emacs-client when I have an opened windows. This is why I wrote this simple shell script that:
* run emacs (and force server-start) in detached screen with a particular id (emax) if this screen doesn't already exist
WordPress may be winning the war, but Movable Type is getting back into the game
http://insidesocal.com –
I've blogged a bit recently on how hard it is to install Movable Type and have it actually work on your own server. After getting and configuring Apache and MySQL (or PostgreSQL or SQlite), making sure you get the static files in the right place and the CGI/Perl files in the other right place, then making sure everything has the proper permissions ... I found it to be way beyond my capabilities.
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Edit and compare giant binary files with lfhex
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Many hex editors try to copy an entire file into memory before they let you edit it, which explicitly limits the size of the files you can view or edit. lfhex is designed to allow you to edit binary files larger than can fit into your computer's memory.
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My Git Workflow
http://osteele.com –
"Git‘s great! But it’s difficult to learn (it was for me, anyway) — especially the index, which unlike the power-user features, comes up in day-to-day operation. Here’s my path to enlightment, and how I ended up using the index in my particular workflow. There are other workflows, but this one is mine. What this isn’t: a Git tutorial..."
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