Archives for Tue Mar 23 2010 - Page 129

Jabbing with Coccinella

Linux Beacon: "Although its name sounds like that of a bacterium, Coccinella is a nice cross-platform open source Jabber client. While Jabber, and IM clients in general, are a dime a dozen, Coccinella sports a few nifty features that make it worth considering if your are in the market for a Jabber client."

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The battle for Internet freedom

Network World: "What are we permitted to post legally on the Internet? Who is responsible for the content of materials posted on Web sites? Two recent legal cases have highlighted the ongoing battles over control of information being posted on the Internet."

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Replace a failed drive in Linux RAID

Tech Republic: "A few weeks ago I had the distinct displeasure of waking up to a series of emails indicating that a series of RAID arrays on a remote system had degraded. The remote system was still running, but one of the hard drives was pretty much dead."

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What If... Microsoft Bought Novell?

Linux Magazine: "According to the company, Novell would consider being acquired should the right buyer come along. Could that buyer be Microsoft? And what would that mean for SUSE and the Linux ecosystem?"

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Open Source DNS Enters Next Gen with BIND 10 Y1

Netstat -vat: "The first public release of the BIND 10 open source DNS server is now out. But don't rush to update your servers just yet -- it's still years away from being ready for production use"

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SystemTap 1.2 released

LWN.net: "The systemtap team announces release 1.2. prototype perf event and hw-breakpoint probing, security fixes, error tolerance script language extensions, optimizations, tapsets, interesting new sample scripts, kernel versions 2.6.9 through 2.6.34-rc"

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Released Last Week: Mandriva, Berry Linux, SystemRescueCd, Parted Magic 4.9, Tiny Core Linux 2.10

Distrowatch: "Mandriva has announced the release of Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1, a commercial Linux distribution with 5-year maintenance support: "The first update of Mandriva Enterprise Server (MES) 5, the simple and innovative Linux server, is available today."

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Making Sense of DNS

Begin Linux: "Domain Name Service (DNS) was created in 1983 out of the necessity to convert IP Addresses like 192.168.9.2 to domain names like example.com. DNS is a distributed database, what this means is that no one computer is used to maintain a complete database of all of the domains on the Internet. Instead this information is distributed across many computers."

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Indie Games See The Linux Market

Blog of Helios: "Sure, I've played all the repository shooters...bloody chunks flying and monsters galore. I have a short attention span...mostly because I suck at shooter games. I just don't play them often. But every now and then, one game catches my eye. For this post, that game is Caster."

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Google's privacy campaign, and three ways in which Google gets your data

Tim Anderson’s ITWriting: "Google is campaigning to reassure us that its Chrome browser is, well, no worse at recording your every move on the web than any other browser."

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Ada Lovelace Day &#8211; My Heroines

Sulamita Garcia: "I have many heroes that inspired me to go ahead. Valorie Aurora, Telsa Gwynne, Pia Waugh, Akkanna Peck, Carla Schroeder, so many... but today I would like to talk about two women, who were the most inspiring for me from the beginning. One is a historical figure, other you may not know."

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Transcript: Andrew Tridgell on Patent Defence

ESP Software Patents News: "The following is a transcript of a talk given in New Zealand, 2010. Andrew Tridgell discusses why reading patents is usually a good idea, how to read a patent, and how to work through it with a lawyer to build a solid defence."

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DVD burning software for the Mac, searching for a Nero equivalent

- by geoffreyf67

I'd like to burn some DVDs, but the software that comes with the Mac to do this isn't up to scratch. I haven't been able to find any so far. Do you know of any DVD burning software for the Mac?

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(monit) What does failure "Changed" mean

- by bresc

Hi, I installed monit on my server and tried to monitor nginx. check process nginx with pidfile /var/run/nginx.pid start program = "/etc/init.d/nginx start" stop program = "/etc/init.d/nginx stop" group server And I get Process 'nginx' status Changed monitoring status monitored data collected Wed Mar 24 00:37:49 2010 What does "Changed" mean? I couldn't find anything. Thx

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problem on expand network using a router

- by Jose

I have a Netgear FS605 v3 router, and i'm trying to expand my network. The router is connected to the cable modem with cat5 cable. I have 2 laptop connected to the router but i'm only able to get internet connectivity in one. The first laptop i turn on, get the signal and the other one will show no connectivity. I have restarted all the devices many times but no luck. Can somebody explain me how to get this solved. Thanks.

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