March 2008
20 posts
Skype 2.0 for Linux - Seeing is believing →
So here it is: video. Today we’re proud to announce the general release of video calls in Skype 2.0 for Linux. As you may already know, the best things in life are often free and now you can make…
GNOME 2.22: A Truly Amazing Desktop! →
Every six months, the GNOME team prepares a new and revolutionary release of the ever popular GNOME desktop environment. Today, we are proud to introduce you to the latest and greatest features of an…
Latest Firefox 3 beta offers exciting features →
Firefox 3 is in testing, with the latest build, beta 4, released Monday. Mozilla is aiming for a final release of its flagship product before the end of the first quarter of 2008. Let’s take a look…
HOWTO recover deleted files on an ext3 file system →
It happens to everyone sooner or later: a split second after you hit Enter you realize your mistake, but it’s too late; you just deleted a valuable file or directory for which no backup exists….
Unix Recovery Legend →
Have you ever left your terminal logged in, only to find when you came back to it that a (supposed) friend had typed “rm -rf ~/*” and was hovering over the keyboard with threats along the lines of…
Play Windows games on Linux with PlayOnLinux →
If you are an avid gamer, you probably dual-boot your favorite Linux distribution with Windows, because that’s where you find most new cutting-edge games. But what if you could run your Windows…
Load Balancer Open Source Software →
I’ve worked with a various load balancing systems (LBS). They are complex pieces of hardware and software. In this post I will highlight some of the open source load balancing software. But…
ConVirt (ver. 0.8.2) →
ConVirt (formerly XenMan) is an intuitive, GUI based virtualization management tool covering all phases of the operational lifecycle. About this version
This a service release that includes : *…
Alberto Milone: Updates on URandR →
A few days ago I decided to have a deeper look at the API of the Python bindings for Xrandr (pyxrandr) written by Sebastian Heinlein and Michael Vogt. While I must admit that they did a good work…
mod_memcached 0.1 (Default branch) →
mod_memcached is an Apache module that provides
GET, PUT, and DELETE services to Memcached
clusters. Using this you can serve content
directly from memcached through Apache to clients.
License: BSD…
OfflineIMAP 5.99.8 (Default branch) →
OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify email reading.
It allows you to read the same mailbox from
multiple computers and ensures that your changes
will be automatically reflected on all…
auto-nng 1.4 (Default branch) →
auto-nng is a program for analysis and
classification of data, using artificial neuronal
networks. You can feed a number of datasets
consisting of certain input and output parameters
into the…
LimeSurvey 1.70+ Build (Stable branch) →
LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a Web
application that interacts with MySQL, MSSQL, or
Postgres to develop surveys, publish surveys, and
collect responses to surveys. Once a survey…
phpMyBackupPro: No simpler backup for MySQL →
Backing up data stored in a MySQL database is an important issue for anyone running a blog, wiki, or any Web-based application that relies on the popular database engine. Many MySQL management…
Archive files in both Windows and Linux using... →
If you need an archiving program that can run under both Windows and Linux, sport a graphical interface, and be licensed as open source software, only a single program will do: PeaZip. It acts as…
Does the open-source development model work for... →
When using open-source software, businesses usually choose between a free, community-supported version of an application or a fee-based enterprise version that includes support, service, updates and…
GNU/Linux Desktop: The Case Against Running... →
Does GNU/Linux need to run Windows apps? This question resurfaced last week, when the media noticed that Google has been contributing heavily to the Wine project, which develops a compatibility…
FreeBSD 7.0 Bests Linux In SMP Performance →
After major improvements in SMP support in FreeBSD 7.0, benchmarks show it performing 15% better than the latest Linux kernels (PDF, see slides 17 to 19) on 8 CPUs under PostgreSQL and MySQL. While…
How-to Install Nexuiz 2.4 →
Nexuiz is one of the most popular open-source first person shooter games. It’s been in development for a long time, and the new 2.4 release has added a new menu system that’s easier to use,…
rename many files at once →
This is where the bash variable handling makes it even more interesting. Instead of just doing something like “mv $var”, we can replace text in the filename using this syntax:
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