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Avidemux 2.5.6 Simple Video Editor ReleasedAvidemux 2.5.6 Simple Video Editor Released
A new version of the simple video editor Avidemux is released. It restores support for AC3 and MP2 encoding, improves x264 support and it also improves Windows XP and 7 support
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CentOS 6.1 Released almost a year after RHEL 6.1CentOS 6.1 Released almost a year after RHEL 6.1
The 6.1 release of the free version of RHEL is finally released. The release comes just as RHEL itself is moving on to version 6.2.
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Razor-qt 0.4.0 releasedRazor-qt 0.4.0 released
Razor-qt is a new light desktop environment based on the QT toolkit. It aims to be a LXDE/XFCE-type traditional desktop environment suited for older hardware.
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Eyemagnet Limited to sponsor Gnash developmentEyemagnet Limited to sponsor Gnash development
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  • More Ideas About Ubuntu HUD Design, Mock-up
    Ubuntu team knows how to stay in news. Two months before the release of Ubuntu 12.04, Mark has exploded a bomb which is making everyone talk about Ubuntu. This time its HUD in the spot-light. Both sides, those against the idea of messing up with Ubuntu UI and those who support it are trying to put forth their points in a constructive manner.
  • Openshot 1.4.1 Has Been Released | What’s New | Download
    OpenShot is a free and open source video editor for Linux operating systems. OpenShot is capable of editing high definitions video formats including HDV and AVCHD. It comes with many video transitions and several audio and video effects. Also you can use OpenShot for adding templates titles and 3D animated titles depends on Blender graphics applications.
  • Share And Discover Cool Bash Tricks With Bash One-Liners
    Wanna impress your friends with some cool one-liners? Well not those kind of one-liners, I’m talking about the nerdy ones. Well, not exactly nerdy, let’s call them geeky. Anyways, Bash one-liners is an open-source project made for sharing and discovering such nifty Bash tricks that will help you tweak or fix your Linux/Unix/BSD computer. Apart from letting you browse existing scripts, the site also lets you submit your own ideas.
  • Google Code-In 2011 Accomplishments
    Google's 2011 Code-In, which is a winter program similar to their Summer of Code, ended earlier this month with many contributions to some leading open-source projects.
  • Google Earth 6.2 Released With A New Way Of Rendering Imagery, More
    Google Earth 6.2 was released a few days ago and the most important change is a new way of rendering imagery which fixes an old bug that was causing a so-called "quilt effect". This effect was caused by images and photographs taken at different times or even days (and thus, different weather conditions, etc.) and made the Earth look like a mosaic from high altitude. A Linux edition of Version 6.2 is available for download.
  • Converting A VMware Image To A Physical Machine
    This tutorial shows how to convert an existing CentOS VM to a physical machine. This tutorial covers the cloning of the VM to an unpartitioned HDD and troubleshoot some of the possible errors that you may have booting the OS on your new hardware. To illustrate this procedure I will use VMware Workstation 7 as the handler to transfer the VM installation to a physical HDD.
  • SCaLE 10x: Onward and Upward
    [url=http://lxer.com/team.php][img]http://lxer.com/content/Scott_Ruecker.jpg[/img][/url] [b]LXer Feature: 30-Jan-2012[/b]As I walked into the Hilton on Saturday morning I knew something was up. I saw lots pf people wearing lanyards with a silhouette of a Penguin, it seemed SCaLE 10x was upon me already in full swing. I walked right onto the exhibitor floor and 'did a loop' through the Expo as it were..
  • Nouveau Reclocking: Buggy, But Can Boost Performance
    Over the weekend I shared that the Nouveau driver project, which seeks to provide an open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux and other platforms via reverse-engineering, hit a major milestone. The Nouveau driver now supports re-clocking for several generations of NVIDIA GeForce hardware, which allows the open-source driver to put the graphics cards at their properly designed operating frequencies for maximum performance. This can result in the Nouveau driver performing much better against the official closed-source NVIDIA graphics driver, but the support is still very experimental. Initial testing over the weekend found this support to perform well when it works, but that overall it is still very buggy.
  • Rockbox dev interview: Open source firmware for MP3 players
    I recently caught up with some of the developers of Rockbox to discuss the open source project, which is designed to replace the firmware shipped on MP3 players and portable media players.
  • Spark 170 – January 29 & February 1, 2012
    On this episode of [i]Spark[/i]: Argonauts, Creative Hubs, and The War On Computing . Click below to listen to the whole show, or download the MP3 (runs 54:00)..
OSNews
  • Introduction to OS/2 Warp Programming - Courseware
    Les Bell has released (Jan 2012) his course material "Introduction to OS/2 Warp Programming" under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. The course had been released with its original files, OOXML, ODF, PDF version and lab exercises.
  • Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP
    Jon Rubinstein, once a prominent voice in the mobile community as he sought to reinvent Palm, has left HP. The move isn't a surprise considering how many management shuffles HP has gone through as of late, and Rubinstein has all but disappeared from the webOS landscape in its recent transition to an open source platform.
  • The /bin/true Command and Copyright
    "One of the fun examples among all the copyright fuss is the extreme example of copyright claims made by AT&T some time in the 1980s. It's the /bin/true program. This is a dummy' library program whose main function is to make it easy to write infinite loops (while true do ...) in shells scripts. The 'true' program does nothing; it merely exits with a zero exit status. This can be done with an empty file that's marked executable, and that's what it was in the earliest unix system libraries. Such an empty file will be interpreted as a shell script that does nothing, and since it does this successfully, the shell exits with a zero exit status. But AT&T's lawyers decided that this was worthy of copyright protection." Three blank lines. Copyrighted. You can't make this stuff up.
  • Why Apple Just Realised the Company's First True Post-PC Quarter
    This is what we call an epic blunder of epic proportions. The article that used to be here, was submitted to us in full, with Tom Krazit as the submitter. As it turns out, though, this article is already published at PaidContent.org, so it's pretty clear someone kindly submitted it to us, but included the whole of that article. For some reason, I let it slip through without checking if it was actually an original - which I normally always do. Nobody contacted us so far, but I'm still incredibly sorry about this. Be sure to click this link and send traffic to PaidContent.org.
  • European Commission Signs ACTA
    I promise we'll have more on ACTA next week, but for now, I'm too busy to properly cover the subject. In any case, the European Commission signed it today, but that means little - each individual member state's parliament still has to ratify it, and if one votes against it, it's over. The European Parliament has to accept it too - not a done deal either. My opinion on the matter is clear.
  • KDE SC 4.8 Released
    KDE has announced its latest set of releases, providing major updates to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, and improved stability, performance and dynamic power management.
  • Apple Restricts Certain APIs to Mac App Store Applications
    "It's no longer possible to write a single app that takes advantage of the full range of Mac OS X features. Some APIs only work inside the Mac App Store. Others only work outside it. Presumably, this gap will widen as more new features are App Store-exclusive, while sandboxing places greater restrictions on what App Store apps are allowed to do." Anybody surprised by this, here's the clue stick. Please proceed to hit yourself with it.
  • Android's Share of Tablet Market Jumps
    "Android accounted for 39% of the market in the final three months of last year, up from 29% a year earlier, Strategy Analytics said. Apple's share fell to 58% from 68%. Microsoft's share stood at 1.5%." Really now.
  • 5 Important Implications of the Windows 8 Pre-Beta
    Microsoft is giving an unusually long advanced look at their next edition of Windows 8, both for client and server, and Tom Henderson (who has been writing about networking and security for decades) takes a look at the implications of the features in the "pre-beta" tuned for businesses and network admins. The client version of the operating systems is known to have support concerns, for instance, as long-time APIs are retired and new ones introduced, as he writes in Windows 8 Client Pre-Beta: Five Important Implications. And the Windows 8 Server Editions promise more radical changes than the operating system has seen in a decade: It’s a re-thinking of how server roles are accomplished for Microsoft. He discusses the impact on your Windows Server deployment in Windows 8 Server Pre-Beta: 5 Important Implications.
  • HP To Commit webOS to Open Source by Fall 2012
    "HP today began executing its plan to deliver an open webOS by committing to a schedule for making the platform's source code available under an open source license. The company aims to complete this milestone in its entirety by September. HP also announced it is releasing version 2.0 of webOS's innovative developer tool, Enyo. Enyo 2.0 enables developers to write a single application that works across mobile devices and desktop web browsers, from the webOS, iOS and Android platforms to the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers - and more. The source code for Enyo is available today, giving the open source community immediate access to the acclaimed application framework for webOS."
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  • ownCloud 3 released
    Version 3 of the ownCloud personal cloud system has been announced. New features include a browser-based text editor, an integrated PDF viewer, a photo gallery application, an improved calendar application, and, inevitably, an application store. "The browser based text editor supports 35 programming languages for syntax highlighting, keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop text, automatic indent and outdent, unstructured/user code folding and Live syntax checker (for JavaScript, Coffee and CSS). The editor is based on the ACE JavaScript Editor. The editor supports basic text files. Editing more advanced formats like doc(x) and ODT is planned for future releases." LWN looked at ownCloud in early January.
  • ImageZero for lossless photo compression
    Christoph Feck has announced the first release of ImageZero, a lossless photo compression tool. "Being twice as fast as PNG when decompressing (and more than 20 times faster when compressing) it achieves compression ratios that are near or better than PNG for natural photos, sometimes even better than JPEG-LS for very high quality photos." The code is available on gitorious. (Thanks to Paul Wise).
  • Seigo: The reveal
    KDE developer Aaron Seigo writes about the "Spark", an upcoming unlocked €200 tablet that runs the KDE Plasma Active system. "This is more than just another piece of hardware on the market, though. This is a unique opportunity for Free software. Finally we have a device coming to market on our terms. It has been designed by and is usable by us on our terms. We are not waiting for some big company to give us what we desire, we're going out there and making it happen together. Just as important: the proceeds will be helping fuel the efforts that make this all possible."
  • Opponents protest signing of ACTA without adequate debate (ars technica)
    ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was called "more dangerous than SOPA" by US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), as ars technica reports. "Kader Arif, a French member of the European Parliament from the Socialist Party, had been assigned to be a rapporteur on ACTA, meaning that he was asked to study the issue and deliver a report on the subject. But he resigned in protest on Thursday. ”I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement," he said, according to one translation. "No inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament's demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.”"
  • Security advisories for Friday
    Debian has updated libxml2 (code execution/denial of service) and wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated F15: php (denial of service and information disclosure), F15: php-eaccelerator (denial of service and information disclosure), and F15: maniadrive (denial of service and information disclosure).

    Gentoo has updated ktsuss (privilege escalation).

    openSUSE will be updating the certificates for all openSUSE hosts located Nuremberg. Click below for details.

  • The case for the /usr merge
    Lennart Poettering has announced the posting of a summary of the motivations for merging several root-level directories into /usr. "A unified filesystem layout (as it results from the /usr merge) is more compatible with UNIX than Linux’ traditional split of /bin vs. /usr/bin. Unixes differ in where individual tools are installed, their locations in many cases are not defined at all and differ in the various Linux distributions. The /usr merge removes this difference in its entirety, and provides full compatibility with the locations of tools of any Unix via the symlink from /bin to /usr/bin."
  • Thursday's security updates

    Fedora has updated rubygem-actionpack (F15; F16: cross-site scripting).

    Oracle has updated kernel (OL6: privilege escalation) and kernel-uek (OL5; OL6: privilege escalation and improved CVE-2010-2962 fix).

    Scientific Linux has updated kernel (SL6: privilege escalation), glibc (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), openssl (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), t1lib (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), and qemu-kvm (SL6: privilege escalation).

    SUSE has updated java-1_4_2-ibm (SLE 10 SP4: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated evince (code execution), linux-lts-backport-oneiric (privilege escalation), icu (code execution), and xorg (access restriction bypass).

  • Three new stable kernel updates
    The 2.6.32.55, 3.0.18, and 3.2.2 stable updates have been released; each contains the usual long list of important fixes
  • [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 26, 2012
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 26, 2012 is available.
  • HP: webOS to be fully released by September
    HP has announced a roadmap for the open-sourcing of webOS that calls for the full code base to be released by September. The Apache 2.0 license will be used. "HP also announced it is releasing version 2.0 of webOS’s innovative developer tool, Enyo. Enyo 2.0 enables developers to write a single application that works across mobile devices and desktop web browsers, from the webOS, iOS and Android platforms to the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers – and more. The source code for Enyo is available today, giving the open source community immediate access to the acclaimed application framework for webOS."
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  • Razor-qt 0.4 - Qt based Desktop Environment

    Razor-qt is a new desktop environment based on the QT toolkit. I installed it from the PPA and gave it a quick go. It’s early days for the project, but it might eventually become a refuge for lovers of KDE 3 in the same way that Xfce has become popular with people who want to recreate the Gnome 2.x experience. more>>


  • Using Plop Boot Manager for USB Boot

    Portability is a huge advantage that Linux enjoys over most other desktop operating systems as most major distros work very well when installed to a flash drive. However, there are still machines in service that just won't play ball when it comes to USB booting. Fortunately, I found a nice little utility that can work around this problem. more>>


  • Moose

    Perl has been around for more than 20 years. During that time, it has received its share of both praise and criticism, and lots of misconceptions surround it. Much of this stems from long-outdated notions of what Perl used to be, but have nothing to do with what Perl actually is today. more>>


  • Basic Chemistry on the GNOME Desktop
    Avogadro

    I've realized I've missed out on a huge area of computational science—chemistry. Many packages exist for doing chemistry on your desktop. This article looks at a general tool called avogadro. It can do computations of energy and gradient values. Additionally, it can do analysis of molecular systems, interface to GAMESS and import and export from and to several file formats. more>>


  • Black Wednesday
    black square

    No, it's sadly not a day for shopping. Today, some of the most visited websites are dark to raise awareness of two bills now making their way through the U.S. Congress. more>>


  • Can we help AT&T solve its mobile data problem?

    I'm in midtown Manhattan, connected to the Net over my hotel's slow but costly wi-fi connection. Normally when I'm traveling — at least here in the U.S. — I avoid lame hotel connections by using AT&T's cellular data system, usually through my iPhone's "personal hotspot." more>>


  • ZevenOS - Does it recapture the flavor of BeOS?

    BeOS was a much loved and highly advanced desktop operating system that ceased active development in 2001. ZevenOS is a Ubuntu 11.10 based system (with a bit of help from Xubuntu) that attempts to recapture some of the BeOS look and feel. more>>


  • Enter to Win a Free "Oops... Wrong window" TShirt!

    We've all done it. Now you can share your humorous and/or awkward blunder with the world! Watch the video below for all the details.

    Enter until January 29th!


  • gStrings in Your Pocket
    gStrings screenshot

    What may sound like a perverse concept is actually one of the many ways smartphones can change your life. If you play a musical instrument but don't happen to have perfect pitch (most of us, sadly), you can buy a tuner, pitch pipe, tuning fork or any number of other aids to keep yourself in tune. If you have a smartphone in your pocket, however, you also can simply download gStrings. more>>


  • Short Notices: News In Linux Audio
    A Spectrum3D screenshot.

    I hope all my readers enjoyed the best of the holiday season. I've been busy with the predictable confusions and minor crises that attend this time of year, but I managed to find time to jot down some recommendations for my readers. Go on, you've been good, give yourself a few extra belated gifts and don't worry if your budget's busted - it's all free software, you can't beat these deals. more>>


The Register
  • Microsoft Win Server to get pushed off OpenStack Linux cloud?

    Hyper-V support a 'useless feature'

    Windows servers could face problems running clouds built on OpenStack if the Linux-for-the-cloud project follows the suggestion of one lead developer.…

  • Google, Facebook, Microsoft in PHISH-FIGHTING smackdown

    DMARC Brothers back cross-industry standard

    Google, Facebook and other internet heavyweights are collaborating together to back a standard designed to curtail phishing by improving the collaboration between legitimate senders and receivers of emails.…

  • Ocean currents emerge as climate change hot-spots

    As they warm, they shift

    A global study that assesses the temperature change in ocean currents has made two findings – one surprising, the other less so. The unsurprising outcome is that as the Earth’s temperature rises, so does the temps in a collection of major ocean currents; the surprise is that those currents are warming faster than the globe as a whole.…

  • Amazon sold 6m Kindle Fire tablets, says analyst

    'Third content ecosystem' to beat iTunes?

    How many Kindle Fires did Amazon ship during the last few months of 2011? The online retailer isn't saying, but ask Jordan Rohan, analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, a broker, and he'll put the figure at 6m units.…

  • Sexy Girls Puzzle: Android Trojan or eager ad-slinger?

    Researchers split on Counterclank's naughtiness

    Security researchers are split on the seriousness of an Android "malware" campaign that some estimates suggest may have "infected millions" of smartphones via gaming apps from Google's Android Market.…

  • Dutch retailer spills Nokia 910 beans

    Specs outed

    Confirmation - perhaps - for Russian mobile phone blogger Eldar Murtazin: a Dutch phone retailer has also claimed the Nokia Lumia 910 will sport a 12Mp camera and will sport a 4.3in, 480 x 800 display.…

  • Thailand can't wait to wield Twitter censorship hammer

    Tweet-smashing tech welcomed by govt

    Thailand has become the first nation in the world to embrace Twitter's controversial censorship scheme.…

  • Millions face Megaupload data deletion by Thursday

    That server bill won't pay itself

    US prosecutors have warned that Megaupload users could start losing the data they uploaded to the company as early as this Thursday.…

  • IBM calls time on Symphony OpenOffice fork

    In tune with Oracle Apache plan

    IBM's putting its weight behind an Oracle-backed OpenOffice push rather than follow Google, Red Hat and others on an independent effort.…

  • Ex-staffer: Apple assigns new workers to made up projects

    Magical, revolutionary... imaginary

    Get a job at Apple and there's a very good chance the company won't tell you what product or project you're working on, says author Adam Lashinksy. According to one ex-employee, Apple may even make up products in order to test your loyalty.…

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  • Apple Execs Get Bonuses, Jobs Still at $1
    Several senior executives at Apple Inc took home 2007 cash bonuses that doubled their salaries but Chief Executive Steve Jobs maintained his annual pay of $1 and took no additional compensation.
  • Motorola Forecasts Loss on Struggling Phone Biz
    Motorola said it will post an operating loss in the current quarter as recovery in its cell phone business is taking longer than expected, dashing Wall Street expectations.
  • Yahoo Plans to Cut Hundreds of Jobs: Source
    Yahoo is planning to announce cutbacks later this month that will likely lead to hundreds of job losses at the nearly 14,000 employee company, a source familiar with the plan said.
  • Fed Slashes Interest Rates
    The U.S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by a hefty three-quarters of a percentage point, the biggest rate cut in more than 23 years, in an emergency bid to lend support to a U.S. economy some fear is on the verge of recession.
  • Bill Would Help States Ditch Electronic Voting
    New Jersey Democrat Rep. Rush Holt recently introduced a measure that would provide financial relief for states that jumped into electronic voting only to find those systems increasingly unreliable.
  • Sprint to Cut 4,000 Jobs, Close 8 Percent of Stores
    Sprint Nextel, the #3 U.S. mobile service, will cut about 4,000 jobs and close 8 percent of its stores, predicting further pressure on its ability to attract subscribers and turn a profit in 2008.
  • IBM Growth in Americas Slower than Overseas
    IBM said that revenue from the Americas rose 5 percent, slower than other regions as overseas units showed the strongest gains, and said computer hardware sales declined.
  • Time Warner to Test Internet Billing Based on Usage
    Time Warner Cable Inc said it is planning a trial to bill high-speed Internet subscribers based on their amount of usage rather than a flat fee, the standard industry practice.
  • Bernanke Backs Quick Fiscal Stimulus
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threw his support behind efforts to craft a fiscal stimulus package and repeated that the U.S. central bank was ready to act aggressively to counter recession risks.
  • Brocade Ex-CEO Sentenced to 21 Months in Options Case
    Brocade Communications former CEO was sentenced to 21 months in prison for backdating stock-option grants in a scandal that has ensnared scores of U.S. companies and led to billions of dollars of restatements.
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  • Block crackers with 3 locks to your SSH door (18 Oct 2010)
    Security always requires a multi-layered scheme. SSH is a good example of this. Methods range from simple sshd configuration through the use of PAM to specify who can use SSH, to application of port-knocking techniques, or to hide the fact that SSH access even exists. Applying these techniques can make life much harder for possible intruders, who will have to go past three unusual barriers."Learn 3 ways of hardening SSH access to your system to block would-be crackers"
  • Bazaar: source control system (15 Oct 2010)
    Bazaar is used to produce the Ubuntu Linux distribution, which is an enormous software project with thousands of components. If you're using a UNIX or Linux system, chances are that your distribution offers a pre-built Bazaar package. Bazaar is flexible enough to accommodate Subversion - a centralized system and Git - a decentralized system. This article introduces you to Bazaar's many appealing features."Intro to Bazaar, a great place to keep your code"
  • User space memory access from the Linux kernel (13 Oct 2010)
    As the kernel and user space exist in different virtual address spaces, there are special considerations for moving data between them. Explore the ideas behind virtual address spaces and the kernel APIs for data movement to and from user space, and learn some of the other mapping techniques used to map memory."An introduction to Linux memory and user space APIs"
  • Techniques for migrating Perl to Python (11 Oct 2010)
    Python programmers shouldn't get too smug. While many people agree that Python is designed in a way that makes it a highly readable language, there can still be problems with legacy, untested Python code too. Porting legacy Perl to Python can be a daunting task. In this article, learn some of the theory behind dealing with legacy code, including what not to do."Techniques for migrating legacy, untested Perl to Python"
  • New AIX 7 capabilities for virtualization (8 Oct 2010)
    The IBM AIX operating system provides a highly scalable IT infrastructure for client workloads. Learn about the latest version, AIX 7.1, an open standards-based UNIX operating system, that includes significant new capabilities for virtualization, security features, availability features, and manageability."Learn about the latest version of AIX 7.1 - an open standards-based UNIX operating system"
  • Introduction to PowerHA (1 Sep 2010)
    PowerHA for AIX is the new name for HACMP (High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing). HACMP is an application that makes system fault resilient and reduces downtime of applications. This article introduces PowerHA and provides a detailed explanation of how to configure a two node cluster. This document is very useful for understanding PowerHA and setting up a two node cluster."Get Power high availability by Configuring a PowerHA cluster" Introduction to PowerHA
  • Yeah - Learn Linux: Maintain the integrity of file (30 Aug 2010)
    Learn how to check the integrity of your Linux filesystems, monitor free space, and fix simple problems. Use the material in this article to study for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) 11 exam for Linux system administrator certification or just to check your filesystems and keep them in good working order, especially after a system crash or power loss. Today's world relies heavily on technology, and at times technology can fail us. That is why, unlike traditional methods of storage s
  • Live Kernel Patches with Ksplice (11 Aug 2010)
    Ksplice applies kernel patches on-the-fly - no reboot required in a fraction of a second. Here's a hands-on guide to performing painless system updates. Learn how to patch a live kernel and give reboots the boot."Avoid reboots of your system with live Kernel updates using Ksplice" Live Kernel Patches with Ksplice
  • vi tips and tricks: Ten cool commands (2 Aug 2010)
    Amaze your friends with cool vi tips and tricks that will improve the efficiency of your file editing. This article takes you through ten of the less well-known vi commands that should form part of any serious vi user's toolkit."Become a vi editing wizard with these 1 tips" vi tips and tricks: Ten cool commands
  • Understanding ZFS & ZFS ARC/L2ARC (26 Jul 2010)
    Great article describing level one and two memory caching in zfs."L2ARC is a new layer between Disk and the cache (ARC) in main memory for ZFS. It uses dedicated storage devices to hold cached data. The main role of this cache is to boost the performance of random read workloads. The intended L2ARC devices include 1K/15K RPM disks like short-stroked disks, solid state disks (SSD), and other media with substantially faster read latency than disk." Understanding ZFS & ZFS ARC/L2ARC
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