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New SGI supercomputer to scale Linux to 1,024 CPUs
JULY 15, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Silicon Graphics Inc. is building an Altix supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) that will run a single Linux operating system image across 1,024 Intel Corp. Itanium 2 processors and 3TB of shared memory....Read More at ComputerWorld
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I'm back
I just got back from a week's "vacation" in Panama City Beach, Florida. Is it still called a vacation when you have been unemployed for 10 months? It didn't really feel like a vacation. The 32 oz T-bone steak I had tasted the same as it normally does. I still had fun doing the same old stuff I normally do on vacation. Still, it didn't really "feel" like a vacation. In one regard it did though: I have a contract job now. I start next week. I am very excited.
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Automate backups on Linux
No excuses: do-it-yourself, secure, distributed network backups made easy
The loss of critical data can prove devastating. Still, millions of professionals ignore backing up their data. While individual reasons vary, one of the most common explanations is that performing routine backups can be a real chore. Because machines excel at mundane and repetitive tasks, the key to reducing the inherent drudgery and the natural human tendency for procrastination, is to automate the backup process....Read More at IBM
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Microsoft Faces Angry IE Users' Questions
In a lively online discussion Thursday, Microsoft engineers faced off with end users who lobbed irate questions, comments and a few tirades about its Internet Explorer browser.
More than any topic, security reigned as the most pervasive theme during the online discussion, including when end users could see the next patch for vulnerabilities in IE....Read More at internetnews.com
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Take Two and Call Me in the Morning or One Bob's Search for Reliable Internet Service in a Colonial City
From i, cringely: During my five years in the California Wine Country, I struggled to overcome the limitations of rural Internet service. Dial-up was a joke since I never saw more than 26.4 kilobits-per-second. DSL was at first a bad dream since I was 36,000 feet from the telephone company central office. Cable Internet service was possible, but only if I paid the $22,000 it would cost to install the cable (no thanks). Satellite came and went. A long distance WiFi connection served me well for a couple years. Then one day, for no apparent business reason, SBC dropped an optical cable at the end of my driveway, and suddenly, I had a six megabit-per-second DSL pipe. Alas, by then we were already planning our move to South Carolina, where I hoped living in an urban environment would make simple getting a good Internet connection. Nope. Finding good broadband service here in Charleston was just as hard or harder than it was back in Santa Rosa. But now I'm finally satisfied and want to explain what I had to do to make it work....Read More
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Patched in 60 Seconds
Today it was announced that a vulnerability in the Mozilla and Firefox Web browsers allows the execution of arbitrary code in Windows NT, 2000, and XP systems. It doesn't affect GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris or anything else -- just Windows. I'd imagine that Microsoft's head honchos will be mentioning this exploit whenever they want to attack open source software security for years to come. Ironically OSS advocates might use the same story to attack Microsoft's security record. Why? Because a patch was released before the vulnerability was widely reported....Read More at NewsForge
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What I am meant to be doing
Today, the opportunity to be doing what I am meant to do was presented to me; doing what I love, what I am meant to do, created to do, and a real chance to be doing it for the only reason that matters. As a Christian, I am to do everything unto God and for His glory. If this works out, and in praying for God's will in my life, I hope that it does, I will be given a gift that few ever realize: to be allowed to do what I love while reaching others for Christ Jesus. If you are reading this and are the least bit intrigued, then please find a copy of Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life and find out for yourself what you are meant to be doing.
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Internet Explorer Is Too Dangerous to Keep Using
Because Internet Explorer, like Outlook, has finally become, to my mind, a permanent security hole that masquerades as a useful application. Strong words? Have you really thought about this latest exploit? It could hit every Internet Explorer (IE) browser that merely visited any page served by an infected Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server). No anti-virus program would stop it, no firewall would slow it down and no shipping IE security patch would even notice it. Visit the page, get the infection. It was that simple....Read More at EWeek
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Linux helps make weather forecasts more accurate
Weather is a tricky thing to predict, but advances in Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) are helping climatologists and global weather modelers achieve faster, more accurate results....Read More at NewsForge
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For the as of yet uninitiated: Letting in Linux
t's out there, and it's free--or at least close to it--but you just haven't had the guts to take the plunge and try Linux. We have good news. It's not necessary to make a complete commitment to the open-source operating system. You can have your Windows and your Linux, too, by setting up a dual-boot system. We'll step you through the process of installing Linux alongside Windows XP so that you can boot either OS. ...Read More at C|Net
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Microsoft Patch Leaves Holes Open
Dangerous vulnerability still exists in IE, security expert warns....Read More at PCWorld
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CLI for noobies: Midnight Commander
With the vast power of the GNU/Linux command line comes an equal amount of complexity. Trying to remember the multitude of commands can be overwhelming at times. As you sit staring at the blackness of your monitor, you wish for an easier way to tame this thing called CLI. Relax all of you GUI addicts, it is now time to introduce you to the wonderful world of Midnight Commander...Read More at linux.com
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SysAdmin to SysAdmin: Approaching Perl
Writing an article about getting started with Perl is a bit like writing an article about getting started with neurosurgery. Sure, I could cover some basics -- but it would only leave you scratching your head the first time something comes up that you've never seen. I'd hate to see a neurosurgeon in that position! But no matter what you do, there are always times when you just don't know an answer. A much more horrible fate to suffer is to have no clue where to go to find the answer. So, this article covers one or two basics of Perl, just to show you that's it's not so scary, and a future article will tell you where to find solutions when you're on your own....Read More at linux.com
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Setting Up Subversion for One or Multiple Projects
If you're looking for a new versioning control system, Cristiano Paris explains how to set up and use Subversion....Read More at LinuxJournal
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Automatic Backups with rsync and Anacron
From Linux Gazette:The thing about backups is that they can just be a pain. Everyone knows just how important they are, but very few people actually take the time to perform proper backups. Even after they have felt the pain of losing all those important files. In this article I am going to show you how to quickly set up your computer for simple, hassle-free, and transparent backups using only rsync and cron (or Anacron). The premise is simple: every night your computer will make an automatic mirror of all the files you wish to backup, and at chosen intervals these mirrors will be archived and kept for a specified period of time....Read More
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Reduce compile time with distcc (A fast, free distributed method for C/C++ compilation)
Some people prefer the convenience of pre-compiled binaries in the form of RPMs or other such installer methods. But this can be a false economy, especially with programs that are used frequently: precompiled binaries will never run as quickly as those compiled with the right optimizations for your own machine. If you use a distributed compiler, you get the best of both worlds: fast compile and faster apps. All you need is distcc....Read More at IBM
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Printing with CUPS
Printing via Linux has always been a bit tricky, but the situation is improving in many ways. At the forefront of this change is the shift from the old Line Printer Daemon (LPD) printing system, as implemented in the BSD LPD or LPRng servers, to the newer Common Unix Printing System (CUPS). CUPS is now the default printing system of most Linux distributions, as well as with some non-Linux systems, such as Mac OS X....Read More at Linux Magazine
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Linux Multi-Head
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Linux users are spoiled
A friend got a new laptop with Windows XP pre-installed. "Does this come with an IRC program?" he asked. No, it doesn't. There are plenty of IRC programs for Windows, but you need to download and install them yourself. Word processing? Not included. Spreadsheet? Windows leaves you on your own yet again. I swear, by the time you buy or download all the software it takes to actually do something with Windows, you might as well install Linux. It would take a lot less time. I don't know about you, but my time is worth money, and if I need to do a whole bunch of software downloading and installation to make my computer usable, we're talking huge TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Because
of antitrust concerns, Microsoft needs to be careful about what kind of application software it ships with Windows. Microsoft reps sometimes point to Linux distributions and ask why they can get away with shipping stacks and stacks of applications without getting in trouble. The answer to that one, of course, is that the Linux distributions give you a choice. You aren't locked into one particular application. Most Linux distributions include several choices for most program classifications; even single-CD distros usually include several Web browsers and email clients....Read More at NewsForge
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IE Users, Proceed with Caution--If at All
Is your enterprise safe running Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser? In many cases, no, and it's time that organizations started taking security seriously enough to consider a switch....Read More at Yahoo News
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Mississippi deal a landmark for Linux in government
Mississippi, deep in the South, sits 2,100 miles from Silicon Valley. It's an unlikely setting for a technology milestone, but history may show that Wednesday was a landmark day for Linux use in a government setting....Read More at EnterpriseLinux.com
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Installing MPlayer
MPlayer has set itself apart as a versatile movie player under Linux and other platforms. Whether you love or hate it, once you try it, you'll have to agree that it is very different, with its versatile keyboard control and alternative methods for handling video playback.....Read More at linux.com
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EFF sets its sights on 'frivolous' IT patents
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is gunning for a group of patents that it claims are frivolous and may pose a threat to freedom of expression online...Read More at ZDNetUK
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Patents and the Threat To Open Source
Have you heard of the media company Acacia? Probably not but actually quite a few web site owners have. Many of them have received FINAL NOTICES from Acacia Media Technologies Corporation...Read More at it-analysis
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Make your own Pirate Radio Station with an iPod
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Keystroke loggers must send Microsoft back to firewall drawing board
When was the last time you were scared to death by headlines about some malware that your system wasn't yet protected against, or worse, for which no reasonable defense existed?...Read More at ZDNet
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Microsoft released on Friday a work-around for an Internet Explorer vulnerability that has left Windows users open to attacks for almost nine months.
The flaw, in an ActiveX scripting component, gained notoriety last month when it became the mechanism used by a network of compromised Web sites to install a malicious program on victims' computers. Microsoft has decided to plug the hole by turning off the ability for the ActiveX component to write to the operating system. The software giant published the work-around on its Web site and directed customers to use its Windows update service to download the patch....Read More at ZDNet
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To my neighbors in the north
Happy Canada Day
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U.S. Steers Consumers Away From IE (it's about time)
The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer....Read More at Yahoo news
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Customizing GNOME
Red Hat and Sun have showed us that GNOME can be both nice to look at and fun to use. However, GNOME is horribly bland in its natural state, and fixing it so that it's more palatable seems like such a daunting task. But what if you could do your own Bluecurve-like customizations and turn a boring and annoying default GNOME installation into a thing of beauty and productivity in about 20 minutes?...Read More at NewsForge.com
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A parent's guide to Linux Web filtering
Having converted quite a few people to the world of GNU/Linux, I am often asked by parents, "Can I set up parental Web filters for my children using Linux?" The answer is yes, and here's how....Read More at NewsForge.com
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From the I can't believe they gave them a patent department
Method and system for clustering and grouping taskbar buttons
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A method and system are provided for organizing, displaying, and accessing representations of one or more running tasks on a graphical user interface in a computer system. The system organizes like application files and clusters the corresponding taskbar buttons and, upon reaching a threshold limit, creates and displays a group button that contains the like application files and removes the like taskbar buttons from the taskbar. Further, upon reaching a second threshold limit, the system ungroups the application taskbar buttons, displays them on the taskbar and removes the group button from the taskbar. ....Read More
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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
arstechnica reviews Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Read More
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Inside the GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform
arestechnica reviews the Gnome 2.6 Desktop Environment Read More
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Deep inside the K Desktop Environment 3.2
arstechnica reviews the KDE desktop environment Read More
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About the Finder...
From arstechnica: It's no secret that I don't like the Mac OS X Finder. Almost every article I've written about Mac OS X has included a litany of criticisms, from small annoyances to fundamental philosophical differences. Some readers agree with my criticisms, and some disagree, and some aren't sure exactly what the problem is.
There was even a forum thread on the topic recently. The posts in that thread represent a broad range of opinions, many of which center on network performance and threading issues that are a lot narrower than my personal concerns. But I believe the mere existence of that thread, and others like it, is indicative of a larger malaise surrounding the Mac OS X Finder.....Read More
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