"User can use several packages to work with Darcs. The darcsum package (available from author's site) implements native support for Darcs, reflecting it ideology. Besides this, there are also Darcs support modules for VC (described in Work with VC) and for DVC (described in Work DVC) packages..." -- via http://alexott.blogspot.com/2008/04/another-part-of-article-now-about-em...
Read more »Anatomy of real-time Linux architectures
This article explores some of the Linux architectures that support real-time characteristics and discusses what it really means to be a real-time architecture.
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Setting Up An Iptables Firewall On Ubuntu With Firehol
FireHOL is a stateful iptables packet filtering firewall configurator. It is abstracted, extensible, easy and powerful. It can handle any kind of firewall, but most importantly, it gives you the means to configure it, the same way you think of it.
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Wizard Boot Camp, Part Five: Control Processes Using Signals
A true wizard doesn’t just run processes, a true wizard knows how to communicate with those processes through signals to stop, restart, and even kill processes. This may sound like arcane and obscure knowledge, but if you follow along, you’ll be managing your processes like an adept in no time.
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mod_perl now supports Perl 5.10
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OpenPanel Beta Release: Server Control Panel Software for the Rest of Us
OpenPanel is a new, open source, server control panel for your Linux system. It offers an AJAX GUI and a powerful command line interface to common server software like Apache, Postfix and MySQL. The first beta release (0.9) is now available for download.
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Qt to be supported in addition to GTK+
Nokia will introduce Qt to the maemo platform in addition to GTK+. The plan is in the earliest stage and recruitment offers for Qt/C++ developers will pop up soon. Don't expect any Qt application developed by Nokia for the tablets anytime soon, though. The first actual step will be the distribution of the Qt libraries for application development in maemo.org during 4Q2008.
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The iPhone SDK and free software: not a match
Apple's recently released a software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone, but if you were hoping to port or develop original open source software with it, the news isn't good. Code signing and nondisclosure conditions make free software a no-go.
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Use Wireshark to capture and analyse packets
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is one of the most well known free software packet capturing and analysis tools available. It is cross platform, and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and many other Unix-like operating systems.
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How To Control Access To Unwanted Websites Using URL Blacklist With SafeSquid Proxy Server
SafeSquid - Content Filtering Internet Proxy, has many content filtering features that can be used to decide who is allowed what, when and how much on the net. In this tutorial I will describe how to control access to unwanted categories of websites, by using URL Blacklist database with SafeSquid Proxy Server.
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Various LaTeX tips
"Tips for using GNU/Linux and Free Software: Various LaTeX tips ..."
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Using Emacs with Git
"Just upload to server a new part of article about usage of Emacs with version control systems -- now about usage of Emacs to work with Git. This variant contain information only about git.el package, but in near future i'll extend it with information about emacs-git and some minor modes." -- via http://alexott.blogspot.com/2008/04/using-emacs-with-git.html
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Parrot 0.6.1 "Bird of Paradise" Released
"On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.1 "Bird of Paradise." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages..."
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Virtualization with Virt-Manager and KVM in Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.04 has introduced a new option for virtualization: Virt-Manager. Using Virt-Manager, libvirt, and KVM, you can take advantage of the virtualization hardware built-in to recent CPUs.
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Catch That Memory Bug Before It Catches You
Memory bugs in programming and the use of memory debuggers for locating and removing them.
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