While KDE users get to boss KIO slaves for easier access to system and network resources, humble GNOME users can perform similar feats with its virtual file system, called GnomeVFS, which is an extension of the physical filesystem on a disk. Using GnomeVFS, users can work with non-local data that can come from unusual places, such as within compressed gzip archives.
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A Linux Driver Project status report
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I figured that if we reduced the barrier for any company to have a Linux driver written for them to nothing except a few emails, a document or two, and hopefully a sample device, these problems would go away and we would be able to create a raft of opensource drivers for these problem devices that everyone seemed to be complaining about...A funny thing happened though, what I figured would be a pr
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Use Emacs to work with Mercurial
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"I upload a new part of article about using Emacs with different version control systems (VCS). New part is about using Emacs for work with Mercurial" -- via http://alexott.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-part-of-article-about-emacs-vcs....
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Git 1.5.5, "Available at the Usual Places"
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"...Git is a distributed version control system that was originally written by Linus Torvalds in April of 2005. It was written to be only a temporary replacement for BitKeeper, which Linus had been using to manage kernel source code since February of 2002.
Read more »RubyForge now has Git support
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Folks using RubyForge have been requesting alternatives to CVS and Subversion for a while - there are feature requests in for Mercurial, Monotone, Darcs, and Git. Of those, Git seems to be the most popular at the moment, so thanks to Garry Dolley's excellent tutorial on Gitosis, RubyForge now supports Git as one of the SCM choices. Huzzah! ..."
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Linux development on the PlayStation 3, Part 2: Working with memory
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The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux®, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In this article, the second in a series, Peter Seebach takes a look at where all the memory goes and how to reclaim it.
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Pash - cross platform PowerShell is out in the wild! Announcement.
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Igor Moochnick announced Pash, an open source implementation of Microsoft's PowerShell. "The main goal is to provide a rich shell environment for other operating systems as well as to provide a hostable scripting engine for rich applications. The user experience should be seamless for people who are used to Windows version of PowerShell.
Read more »Emacs Lisp as a scripting language
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"...you can run Elisp (the Lisp interpreter Emacs is built on) programs from outside Emacs [...] This will make Emacs work like Perl or Python or Ruby or Bash—an interpreter that reads the rest of the program and executes the code..." -- nota bene: I love Emacs as a text editor!
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Hammering on the Heron
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Reports of beta testing for 8.04 LTS seem very positive all round, to the great credit of the desktop and server teams who have been working so hard to make Hardy Heron rock. I have been running Hardy on my laptop through most of the cycle, but took the plunge on my home firewall and desktop (Kubuntu) machine this weekend.
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Identify and verify users based on how they type
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Modify the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) to support user verification through keystroke-dynamics processing. Create and store a one-way encrypted hash of your keystroke patterns when entering your user name. Add code to GDM to read current keystroke patterns and permit a user to log in when the characteristics are a match.
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Step by Step: Using Samba to join a Windows Domain
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In this article, I give you the steps you need to use Samba to join to a Windows domain. The primary domain controller (PDC) will serve as the password server for the domain. If Samba and winbind services are running, turn them off. I will show you how turn them on after you join to the Windows domain.
Read more »Access Point Wireless with Multiple SSID and VLAN
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The purpose of this document is to describe the implementation of a WiFi Access Point using Zeroshell on a system with a WiFi network card containing an Atheros chipset.
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Installation of Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Beta 1 with LiveCD
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"I just started yet another process of installing Gentoo Linux, and following is my record of the installation step by step. Previously I preferred to install from stage 1/3 following this guide. I decided to try LiveCD this time..."
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Flipping the Linux switch: Control freaks, meet KDE Kiosk
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Linux is great to use at home. It can be handy at work. It's a great server operating system. But there's one other place that Linux is really worth its weight in gold: public, or semi-public, computers. There's nothing quite as nerve-wracking as seeing someone on a computer you're responsible for, and wondering what exactly they're up to.
Read more »Git: reviews
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"It’s hard to leave behind the comfort of a system that you are very familiar with, especially when you think about the time you’ll spend pouring through manpages to do even the simplest thing in the new system. That was exactly the mental block that kept me from trying Git for so long. I’ve been learning to use it lately and I’ve become a complete convert.
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