I've barely put down the Palm Pre since it arrived at my desk this week, and I've come up with quite a few Pre tips, tricks and shortcuts, the best of which I'm sharing below.
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5 Ways to Decide on a Linux Distribution
Prejudices and opinions aside, at some point in your career you'll be asked to select a viable Linux distribution for your corporate network. How will you choose? Will you use the same distribution that you use at home or will you do some research and find something that's corporate-ready? Are you up to the task? Do you know what to look for in a distribution to support a corporate environment?
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eBox Bundles Network Services in a Friendly Package
"A very complex technology to make network management simple." That's what the developers of the eBox platform promise small and medium sized organizations, and it's certainly an attractive idea.
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CIA gets open source for enterprise search
The company providing technology to the US intelligence community has invested in an open-source firm to provide enterprise-search technology to the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
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Getting the most out of OpenOffice.org Writer
Writer is, without a doubt, the most frequently used application in the OpenOffice.org suite. It offers many advanced features that can help you to create anything from a simple letter to a book with a complex layout. But, as with any powerful application, you often have to dig deep in order to get the most out of Writer.
Read more »Could There Be an AndroidFox?
Google's Linux-based mobile operating system — Android — has become a popular choice for phonemakers worldwide. Now, if Firefox developers are getting what they think they are, we may finally see the combination of Google's power OS with Mozilla's groundbreaking browser
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InstaClick Opens New Tabs with Right Clicks on Laptops
Firefox extension InstaClick makes up for your laptop's lack of a middle mouse button by re-mapping the right-click function to open links in a new tab.
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How To Set Up Mass Virtualhosting
This howto shows one method of doing mass virtualhosting using mod_rewrite to dynamically map a list of directories on your filesystem to virtual hosts. Additionally, by rewriting the incoming URL to the user's home directory we can make use of suEXEC to have Apache execute CGI scripts as the owner of the script.
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20 Useful, Common Linux (Ubuntu) Commands for New Users
I recently was asked by a new Ubuntu user (also involved in web, graphic design, etc.), what some of the more common day to day commands I use are.
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Ubuntu: Still Popular?
Back in November of 2007, we wrote an article about the popularity of Ubuntu. At the time, it appeared that Ubuntu was the most popular Linux distribution according to many different web metrics. Of course, there’s no way to say for sure which distro is the most popular and to know exactly how many people use Ubuntu.
Read more »Why is Ubuntu’s KDE 4 so bait – No really why?
Don’t get me wrong, I love Jaunty, it’s the best Ubuntu release yet IMHO, just not if you want to run KDE. In that case it’s just broken, and broken well and truly. Starting with the networking, it’s solidly broken. So that means that you can even fix it within KDE.
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Frank Kardel: Being “On-time” with Open Source Security, Part 2
In Part 2 of our Q&A with Frank Kardel, we find out how the NTP community handles code security and dive into the long-fought debate over the merits of opens source vs. proprietary software. Beyond that, Kardel addresses where the two can potentially learn from each other to improve software security.
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High-Availability Load Balancer With HAProxy/Heartbeat On Debian Lenny
This article explains how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with HAProxy and heartbeat on Debian Lenny. The load balancer sits between the user and two (or more) backend Apache web servers that hold the same content.
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Grab All Your Google Docs with a Python Script
Google Docs Download, a Greasemonkey script previously featured here for creating a Google Docs bulk download feature that should already be there, is now available as a (beta-level) Python script. That means Mac OS X and most Linux users can download and run it off the bat, and Windows users can grab all their cloud documents using Cygwin.
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Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?
So, what does a Linux company like Oracle wants to do with its newly purchased Sun's open-source operating system, OpenSolaris? The answer appears to be: "Nothing."
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