A ton of people use github, gitorious, and bitbucket these days. Aside from the obvious benefits of dVCS, these sites have excellent features such as:
Basically …
more ...I'm doing a presentation/Q&A for Software Freedom Day 2010 in Charleston, SC. CSCLUG is putting on the event.
Here is the presentation. Feel free to use …
more ...I haven't noticed any killer features in KDE SC 4.4 and I've been running it since Beta 1. I've noticed a lot of subtle improvements. Things like app stacking and selection in the task bar seem much more responsive. All around, plasma looks subtly better and my favorite KDE …
more ...If you run a public mail server, there is a good chance you run SpamAssassin.
There is a New Year's SNAFU in which any dates 2010+ are marked "grossly in the future". That is a problem since it is now 2010.
Run sa-update and restart SpamAssassin ASAP, or install the …
more ...Sun Microsystems has a powerful and favorably priced entry in the x86 workstation space with the Ultra 27. Such is the power of this workstation and its natural fit for *nix workloads, combined with a compelling price tag, I pronounce it the Ultimate Linux Workstation in its class. He's a …
more ...DRBD has been a long standing external patch in many distribution kernels. It has finally been merged in the 2.6.33 window. Colloquially the "Distributed Redundant Block Device", this piece of code allows you to mirror blocks of storage across multiple nodes.
This is primarily useful in high availability …
more ...Here's my easy and modern guide to getting pleasant looking fonts on Gentoo with minimal effort.
Wikipedia rendered with the end result of this guide
Enable the following USE flags:
euse --enable truetype type1 cleartype corefonts
and make sure everything is built with them enabled:
emerge -uDNa world …
A while back, a book entitled JavaScript: The Good Parts made waves on the internet, especially social networking sites. This book purported to show the inner beauty of a language that was long considered second or third rate, coming of age. With the advent of toolkits like JQuery, Javascript/AJAX …
more ...I initially thought this would be a rather uninteresting release, especially when we learned Xen dom0 didn't make the cut. Following the changelog line-by-line, this one still didn't seem very interesting to me. But analyzing the sum of parts, I have to consider 2.6.30 a 'golden' kernel -- certainly …
more ...The recent bruhaha surrounding Xen on LKML (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/2/475) is really disheartening. Essentially, the Linux kernel devs are at a disconnect with users. Some are proposing narrow-minded ideas such as DROPPING software paravirt or merging Xen as a whole into the kernel.
I use …
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