Liferay: Performance Test of Liferay 5.1 Running on Linux
Joomla! "I have performed a performance analysis of Liferay 5.1 running on Linux 2.6 operating system using an Intel Core2 Quad core CPU, Q9450...My objective has been to investigate the performance of Liferay serving a public facing, no-login, web site."
Tap Into the Google Geocoder Web Service
IBM Developerworks: "Explore the Google Geocoder Web service that takes a street address and returns data about that address including its longitude and latitude. In this two-part article series, you will combine it with the Google Maps API and XSLT to create data overlays for display in Google Maps and Google Earth."
Unique Sorting Of Lists And Lists Of Lists With Perl For Linux Or Unix
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Yesterdays post on sorting Perl lists and removing duplicates did end up being a bit heavy at the end, as I feared. I received my fair share of "here's how you can do it better" emails..."
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Downloading an Entire Web Site with wget
Linux Journal: "If you ever need to download an entire Web site, perhaps for off-line viewing, wget can do the job."
Two Repositories of Linux and Unix Commands and Example Dot Files
All about Linux: "Or perhaps you are interested in learning tips and tricks on writing versatile dotfiles. Well, here are two sites which are dedicated to collecting useful tips so as to help Linux users better."
Has the Head of MySQL Left Sun?
Cyber Cynic: "Many former CEOs in that position quickly quit and it sounds like Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, will be the next to leave his company's new owner."
Browse the Web in Konqueror Using Only the Keyboard
All about Linux: "KDE Konqueror is much more than a file manager. It is also a standards compliant web browser. Here is a neat trick to surf the web sans the mouse - that is, using just your keyboard."
FUD Warning: Microsoft Casts "GNU/Linux" as "Piracy"
Boycott Novell: "Cherish the mercy of Microsoft. It prefers not to sue poor people."
Taming Linux Font Sizes
Truesong Tech: "I recently set up Arch Linux (which is awesome, by the way) on my laptop, and noticed a bit of a problem... despite my resolution, 1680x1050, which usually makes fonts look tiny, all of my system fonts were huge."
What They're Using: Christian Einfeldt, Producer, the Digital Tipping Point
Linux Journal: "The boxes to my left are the thin clients. If you look just over my right ear, you will see a silvery small computer between two black monitors. That's the computer on which I captured this photograph (Gutsy Ubuntu running on the ZaReason media box)."
Editor's Note: Chrome Comic Books, Yugos, Our New Global Overlords
Google's Chrome browser is the most revolutionary, transformative technology to ever hit the planet. It will end hunger, tame avarice and greed, and beat swords into plowshares. But plows are destructive, so they will be strictly ornamental and have pretty flowers growing over them.
A Graphical Representation of the Linux File Structure
Geek2Live: "I hope that breakdown of Linux File Structure will help."
openSUSE 11.0: A Versatile Linux Server
LinuxPlanet: "OpenSUSE 11.0 does a great job on the desktop, but it shines equally as bright in the server role. Everything you need to set up most any type of server comes on the OpenSUSE 11.0 installation DVD. The trick is narrowing down the options to the ones you'll really need."
Ubuntu Documentation in Shreds
The Register: "An ambitious plan to smarten up the online documentation for Linux distro Ubuntu has ended in failure."
Google's Chrome, Mozilla, Explorer, Rendering Engines: Let the War Begin
Free Software Magazine: "Apparently, the launch was accidentally “leaked” by a Google employee who was a little piggy fingered with the send button on his e-mail client."
Process Model Explained
Chrome's process model is extremely sophisticated. The default behavior has been examined before, but you can configure Chrome to manage processes differently: one process per web site, or one process per group of connected tabs, or one process for everything. Marc explains how this all works in Google's new browser. Update: 'Read more' fixed - made a reading comprehension boo-boo there.
Seigo on Plasma, Context and Nepomuk
KDE's Aaron Seigo has published a blog post in which he details how Nepomuk and the semantic desktop can be beneficial to users. He introduces the concepts of "context" and "context switches" - possible states are "writing an OSNews news item", or "posting a blog entry", or "editing your MySpace page". When you switch from one of these contexts to another, it's called a context switch, according to Seigo. "What happens with the rest of the software running on your computer when you switch contexts?" Seigo answers his own question. "Pretty much nothing. At least not automatically."
Adding Heartbeat to Your Open Source SAN: Open Source SANs, part 3
Search Enterprise Linux: "Heartbeat is a monitoring tool that will help you to make the most of your SAN by catching problems before they interfere with your productivity. Part three of this four-part tip shows you how to install a Heartbeat cluster in an open source SAN."
Setting up DRBD in an Open Source SAN: Open Source SANs, part 2
Search Enterprise Linux: "As we established in part one of this series on open storage area networks (SANs), building an open source SAN provides a cost-effective alternative for companies with a tight budget. Now that we've established the merits and some of the important considerations in creating open source SANs, we'll explain how to set up the Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) service, which allows for replicated storage in a SAN."
Build Your Own iSCSI SAN Appliances With Linux, part 1
Search Enterprise Linux: "Yet most companies need a SAN, because – in my opinion – it's probably the best way to avoid losing critical data when server storage crashes occur. You don't need to pay for a proprietary SAN appliance, because you can build your own SAN using open source software. In this four-part tip you'll learn how to set up such an appliance setup."
A Hands-on Overview of the Access Linux Platform
ars Technica: "ALP is designed to maximize flexibility so that carriers and handset makers will be able to tailor it to their needs and provide some differentiation at various layers of the stack. Another major design consideration was the need to provide strong support for a multitude of form factors and handset designs."
Microsoft Launches Pro-Vista Ad Campaign
Microsoft's absurdist TV ad starring the odd couple of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld is just the first volley in what promises to be a shock and awe campaign aiming to improve the public image of Windows Vista and position itself as a computing innovator.
Browser Or Cloud Operating System?
Walter Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal, who has been testing Google's Chrome browser for a week next to the latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, concludes "With the emergence of Chrome, consumers have a new and innovative browser choice, and with IE8, the new browser war is sure to be a worthy contest." Many cloud computing enthusiasts are overjoyed with Chrome and call it the first cloud browser or even the basis for a cloud operating system.
Contiki 2.2.1 Released
Version 2.2.1 of the Contiki operating system has just been released. The Contiki operating system is designed for wireless deeply embedded systems that have memory on the order of a few kilobytes and a power consumption on the order of a few milliwatt. Within these severe resource constraints, Contiki provides a low-power multi-hop TCP/IP stack, a command-line interface, a flash-based file system, and loadable modules. Release 2.2.1 improves network performance, reduces power consumption, and fixes a number of bugs from previous releases.
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