Filed in archive Misc
by Rom Feria on December 30, 2006
With Intel's Core 2 Duo and AMD's Athlon 64 64-bit processors becoming widely available, operating systems and user-land applications can now take advantage of the performance upgrade. Linux...
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Filed in archive Servers
by Rom Feria on December 29, 2006
I am going bonkers over server, process and network monitoring tools today. I guess it is because I often find it frustrating when services go down during the holidays. I have experienced a couple of...
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Filed in archive Servers
by Rom Feria on December 29, 2006
I wrote about monitoring your bandwidth using the Multi Router Traffic Grapher. Today, I present another monitoring tool that provides you with more features, allowing you to not only monitor the...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on December 29, 2006
If you want to map out your area's hotspots, war-driving is the best way to do it. One of the popular applications used is Kismet - "an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and...
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Filed in archive FreeBSD
by Rom Feria on December 29, 2006
Ken Smith, FreeBSD developer, announced the release of Release Candidate 2 of version 6.2. He states Since RC1 we have been working out a few more bugs in Device drivers, a few device drivers were...
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by Rom Feria on December 28, 2006
Virtualization will be big this 2007 and Linux will not be left behind. I wrote about Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) and OpenVZ. Today, I lead you to a KVM-based benchmark with a video of Windows...
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Filed in archive Servers
by Rom Feria on December 26, 2006
I wrote about virtualization technology being added to the kernel before. I mentioned KVM being added to the kernel but today, Howtoforge presents a guide on how to setup OpenVZ, another...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on December 26, 2006
One of the strengths of any Unix-based or Unix-like systems is its support for multiple shells. Linux comes with the Bourne shell (sh), Bourne-again shell (bash), C shell (csh), Tenex C shell (tcsh),...
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by Rom Feria on December 26, 2006
If you are like me, who has multiple computers with varying amounts of hard disk space, then you definitely will need a way to copy/back-up files from one computer to another over the network. Over...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on December 25, 2006
Not too long ago, I wrote about the ATI drivers for Linux. Today, an open source nvidia project, Nouveau, is thrust into the limelight. Phoronix's Michael Larabel provides us with a first look of...
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Just when everyone's drinking and being merry this season, the open source WINE community just released their latest version, 0.9.28, to the community. What's new in this release? OpenGL in...
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RedHat's David Zeuthen announces Fedora Core 6 Zod Live CD and Live CD Tools. After lots of feedback, bug fixing and testing of the beta live CD announced 3 weeks ago, I'm pleased to announce...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on December 21, 2006
I wrote about using bandwidth monitoring tools at home when I was testing my broadband connection a few weeks ago. I used Multi-Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) to determine if my ISP is giving me the...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on December 21, 2006
AFAIK, Apple first introduced lightning fast desktop search in Mac OS X Spotlight. Being both a Mac and linux user, Spotlight is one of the tools that I use the most - to search for documents and...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on December 21, 2006
You have a new hardware that is not working properly on Linux? Chances are, you do not have the correct drivers for it. For Linux to load the proper drivers, it must identify the hardware correctly...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on December 20, 2006
When I was monitoring a university network, sometimes I find departments deploying rogue/unauthorized wifi access points and more often than not the tool that I use is nmap. Enterprise Networking...
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Filed in archive Misc
by Rom Feria on December 20, 2006
As reported in LinuxDevices.com, Linux was shot into space Dec. 16, as part of a second-phase Air Force Research Laboratory program aimed at making space more "operationally responsive."...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on December 19, 2006
Bruce Byfield surveys Linux file managers for Linux.com. The article is useful specially for new Linux users or those who are simply not comfortable using the command-line interface (CLI). Whilst I...
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Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on December 16, 2006
Mandriva Flash is a pre-installed Mandriva Linux distribution on a 2GB USB key. Plug in the key, take your Linux system everywhere with you, save and exchange your data in 1GB of free space! Instead...
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It used to be difficult to configure Samba to share files and folders between your Linux box and your Windows machine. Today I present two tutorials written on Linux.com and HowToForge. First is how...
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by Rom Feria on December 16, 2006
Last December 15, 2006, being one of the LPI Certification Exam proctors, I conducted a LPI Level 1 certification exam for Linux trainers from Southeast Asia. There were 27 examinees who endured 180...
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Filed in archive FreeBSD
by Rom Feria on December 16, 2006
OnLamp's Dru Lavigne outlines some clever hacks you can do with FreeBSD and X.org. I believe that the same will work with Linux with X.org. Of particular interests are the following: Nesting...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on December 16, 2006
I wrote about NVidia's support for Linux a few weeks ago and hoped that ATI will follow suit. Guess what? They just released a new Linux driver. Michael Larabol just wrote a short review of the...
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by Rom Feria on December 14, 2006
Linux.com's Nathan Willis wrote a short review of the top Linux photo managers. Whilst I wish that there is a Linux port of Apple's iPhoto, Google's Picasa, albeit non-open source, seems...
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by Rom Feria on December 12, 2006
Linus Torvalds officially commits virtualization component to 2.6 kernel. Kernel-based Virtual Machine for Linux (KVM) bested other solutions such as Xen and OpenVZ by officially getting included in...
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