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Introduction to Linux I've gotten a number of emails asking me about this or that or the other thing from people who are either just starting with Linux, or are consideri...

Sometimes change is good, sometimes it's bad, and sometimes it's a mixed bag. Such was the case recently when a customer switched a remote office from a 56K line to ...

Load, in computing, is a measure of the amount of processing a computer system is currently performing, usually in the form of a scalar and as some variation on a percentage. -...

Apache is an open-source HTTP server implementation. It is the most popular web server on the Internet. The December 2005 Web Server Survey conducted by Netcraft [ 1 ] shows th...

Introduction MySQL Cluser Server is a fault-tolerant, redundant, scalable database architecture built on the open-source MySQL application, and capable of delivering 99.999%...

This is for Linux and Unix systems. Search engines find it for Windows people looking for info about the "AVSERVE.EXE" process, but this isn't going to help you w...

Have you ever forgotten your root password ? I have a very good memory. I remember most of my client's passwords (there are a few I forget regularly for no reason that I c...

Like most things that are worth owning, Computers are an American invention. Look at any modern computer and you will see that the whole thing is the product of American brilli...

Blag (a recursive acronym, standing for Blag Linux and GNU ) is a GNU/Linux operating system distribution that consists entirely of Free Software. When I first stumbled upon t...

Zenwalk 3 is an operating system based on Patrick Volkerding’s Slackware GNU/Linux distribution, version 10.2. The entire operating system fits on a single CD, and stays...

I explain how and why we can improve the quality of the Linux operating system kernel by testing it on our own computers. Note - This was originally posted at Advogato ...

A tutorial on a useful yet poorly understood language feature, useful as a cache or to enable a different sort of polymorphism. Abstract Pointers to Member Functions ar...

NOTE 1 - This article originally appeared shortly after the release of Flash MX (Flash 6). The supplied FLA will not work as written in Flash MX 2004 with AS2, though the conce...

This is a small checklist of how to secure the Apache webserver. I wrote this mostly for my own personal use, but I hope it proves useful for others, too. For any suggestions o...

A few weeks ago I published a small HOWTO for using loop-aes to encrypt your hard drive, usb thumb drive etc. As I have bought a new 300 GB external USB disk drive on Fri...