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Many operating systems can already be booted over the net, especially so for the installation systems of the major Linux distributions, but the netboot.me web service offers a universal boot loader which presents them all in one menu. The boot loader can be installed on a USB stick, burned onto CD, or on a floppy disk. This allows users to start an always current selection of operating systems over the internet using one single boot medium.

Ubuntu Linux may get most of the attention but Mandriva and Fedora Linux are pushing the Linux desktop forward more than most

I’m using my new Ubuntu netbook to write this blog entry. But I’m feeling a little lonely, because only 13 percent of small and midsize businesses plan to purchase netbooks, according to survey results from Spiceworks Inc.

There is a pleasant surprise here shortly so stay with me for a bit. Cool surprises await….or not. Depending on your SEF . (Surprise Expectation factor) What I have to say isn’t necessarily directed at Linux Users…you know what I am about to say chapter and verse…most will anyway. But everyone personally knows a Windows User…lots of them in most cases. Many of you have went as far as to refuse free support for them…as have I. I too have tired of fixing the same problems over and over. So, when my home-care nurse bemoaned the fact that her Windows laptop was not responding, I took a look at it. Like I had a choice? Oh, and just guess what I found?

In this article by Samisa Abeysinghe, we will look into a process model that we can use as a starting point for the PHP projects that we are working on. The process is designed with the MVC framework based design model in mind. It is assumed that the workload is broken down based on the Model-View-Controller pattern, and team members are assigned to work on each layer based on that breakdown.

In this article I will show how to prevent brute force attacks with Fail2ban against your SquirrelMail Web login using the Squirrel Logger plugin.

In my last article I wrote about accessing a PostgreSQL database in C/C++. In this article, I’m going to discuss performing the same functions in C against an SQLite database. Unlike Postgresql and the supporting libraries, SQLite creates completely self-contained databases that aren’t dependant upon a client-server architecture.

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Due to GRUB2 doesn’t allow module entries to accept parameters via command line in meantime , creating corresponding Xen grub2 entries for xenified aka Suse kernels went a bit different from the same procedures on Jaunty and Intrepid Servers.

Scripts are files that contain shell commands which may be short or can be very complex. Scripts just make it easier because you can invoke one command to run all of the commands in the script. Here instead of using 8 separate commands you can use one command to execute all of them. This course is in a series of mini-courses to help you with Bash Shell Scripting. It is divided into several sections as you can see below. In addition, to help you in the challenge of learning bash shell scripting you will find a quiz at the end of each mini-course.

I keep a daily journal because my memory is not what it used to be. I have friends who keep daily journals just because they like to write.