I was lucky enough to catch Kurt Denke for a short interview. Kurt is actually on vacation right now; however, he still found some time to answer my questions. For those who have been living under a rock for the last week, Kurt Denke is the owner of Blue Jeans Cable; Monster Cable attacked Blue Jeans Cable on the basis of “Intellectual Property violations”.
Read more »Interview with Kurt Denke, the man who shut "Monster Cable" up
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Switching to Linux which distro to use? (series)
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This is the first of a sequence of posts where we’ll take a look at a few of the main Linux distros to find out which are the most welcoming to Linux newbies.
The first distro to be analyzed is Fedora 9 beta.
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Setting Up A Modular Subversion Repository For PHP-Driven Websites
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Sharing code between projects is still not a trivial matter with subversion. Especially if you are familiar with SourceSafe, you will find that subversion makes it hard to share code. Subversion seems to be really great in creating a version mess and good in solving one, but the reason I need source code control is to prevent such a mess.
Read more »Mayanna: A Unique Desktop Organizer for Gnome
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Previously I’ve written about Gimmie, a desktop organizer and panel for GNOME designed to allow easy interaction with the things you use on your computer. Some of it’s developers have forked the project, and created Mayanna. It’s a young project, so I had to compile from source to try it out.
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Sun Microsystems announces MySQL 5.1
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the general availability of MySQL 5.1, a new version of open source database, designed to improve performance and simplify management of large database applications.
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Gfire is Back!
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After 1 and half years since the last release of Gfire back in 16 September 2006, the next version of Gfire is almost ready.
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Linux terminology jargon buster
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With the upcoming release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron, it’s likely there will be an influx of complete Linux newbies that are trying the operating system (in its shiny, new Ubuntu incarnation) for the first time. Just under a year ago, I put together a Linux terminology jargon buster, designed to explain some of these new Linux terms to those who are just starting out.
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redhat and the Desktop
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redhat has made the best choice for their business. Advances for the Linux Desktop are coming from a different front
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Sysadmin for Greenpeace, Washington DC: Seekeing an environmentally aware GNU/Linux hacker
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"Greenpeace is in search of an experienced, well-rounded systems admin for its Washington, DC office. This is a rare opportunity for an environmentally aware GNU/Linux hacker..."
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[emacs] Support of Monotone
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"Monotone — distributed version control system, using same concepts like other distributed VCS, like GNU Arch, Darcs and other. Work with Monotone from Emacs implemented by monotone.el package, that come together with Monotone distribution.
Read more »[emacs] Work with Darcs
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"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...
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Anatomy of real-time Linux architectures
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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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Will MySQL Keep Lighting up LAMP?
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MySQL leader Marten Mickos tries to calm Linux leaders' fears of MySQL abandoning the Linux market, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols.
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Linspire's CNR beta supports Ubuntu HardyHeron
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Linspire announced a new version of its CNR (Click'N'Run) software management system that supports the Ubuntu 8.04 ("HardyHeron") release, expected to take flight on Apr. 24. The client enables users to install, uninstall, and update desktop Linux software available on Linspire's CNR.com download site.
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Setting Up An Iptables Firewall On Ubuntu With Firehol
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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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