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Source: Linux Today

Quick Tweaks: "This post will serve two purposes: to learn Linux commands in a fun way without putting so much load on your memory power (that's why I will post only five commands), and to realize the power of wonderful Linux commands."


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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "If you need an Oracle expert, a Unix/Linux sysadmin, a Windows administrator, a Cisco network engineer and a technical manager to flesh out your IT staff, you should be writing up more than one work specification."


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LinuxLink: "Fortunately, for aspiring programmers, the very best tools are also completely free. Linux provides a complete programming suite, from editor to run-time environment. The Linux tool chain is widely used throughout industry for the heavy lifting of software development, and a good programmer, trained in Linux tools, need never worry about running out of interesting and profitable employment."


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Azerblog: "This comes with the drawback of limiting your maximum file size to 2 Gigabyte if using FAT32. A DVD release has it's main file, livecd.squashfs that can run up to nearly 4 Gigabyte, twice the maximum allowable size. In other words, Epic Fail. Here is a way around that."


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Linux Journal: "Last week we covered setting up default targets for the 3 main chains,
those being input, output, and forward of course, as well as poking
holes through the filewall to allow specific services in."


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Packt: "Many sites desiring video will choose to use a third-party video provider such as YouTube or Blip.TV. This reduces the bandwidth requirement from their server, is easy to include in their posts, and allows videos to be easily shared virtually by users across the Internet."


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IBM Developerworks: "Most online mapping applications assume that the desired view is always north at the top of the image. This article presents tools and code that show how to replace the map image with an inverted copy, where south is at the top. Using a Firefox extension and the Imager Perl module, each tile that comprises the full image is extracted, rotated, and placed back in the image at the appropriate spot."



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Heise.de's Kernel Log has a look at the ext4 filesystem as Linus Torvalds has integrated a large collection of patches for it into the kernel main branch. "This signals that with the next kernel version 2.6.28, the successor to ext3 will finally leave behind its 'hot' development phase." The article notes that ext4 developer Theodore Ts'o (tytso) is in favor of ultimately moving Linux to a modern, "next-generation" file system. His preferred choice is btrfs, and Heise notes an email Ts'o sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List a week back positioning ext4 as a bridge to btrfs.Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Updated: Mon Oct 20 23:55:01 2008


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