In this article, Mark Rais shares a list of those essential networking commands every beginning Linux administrator needs to know. Parts of this article originally appeared in the Linux+DVD Magazine, issue 1/2008.

"It looks like I missed an interesting discussion on humane markup langages last week. Obviously I use emacs to write my blog posts with muse and htmlize. A tiny bit of Juan wrap makes it a pleasure. I wouldn’t write at all if I had to use raw HTML (although maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if I used nxml-mode)..."

"In just a few days the new Firefox 3 browser from the house of Mozilla will be release. Except of course if another re-build of the current release candidate has to be made, which would push the publishing of the newest browser to sometime in June. One such reason could be the ease somebody can spoof the secure mode indicator of secured sites, specially on the [GNU] platform.

MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.

"Hello, I am happy to announce the next release of GNU Cgicc.[...] GNU cgicc is an ANSI C++ compliant class library that greatly simplifies the creation of CGI applications for the World Wide Web. cgicc performs the following functions: ..."

I'm not a VIM user, but this seems very impressive. Hope to have the same for Emacs soon...

There's a good chance that as a value-added reseller (VAR) or security service provider, you believe Snort and similar tools are valuable. However, there are plenty of technical folks that believe Snort is a waste of time. The goal of this Snort Report is to help you communicate the value of Snort to those customers whose IT departments are resistant to the open source tool.

In Chapter 1, I gave a brief overview of the Autotools and some of the resources that are currently available to help reduce the learning curve. In this chapter, we’re going to step back a little and examine project organization techniques that are applicable to all projects, not just those whose build system is managed by the Autotools.