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Ease Your Ubuntu Experience

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So you have made the leap, and are flying away from Windows... welcome to Ubuntu! You must have performed a few common activities like...

Building the Cloud with Open Source and Open Standards

Open source software and standards are not just beneficial, but highly essential for a heterogeneous, shared and scalable environment such as the "cloud". What's...

CNN-IBN’s Rocking Affair with PostgreSQL

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Developers and companies that build or deploy software solutions for websites that have to be available 24/7 can rely on fool-proof open source database...

Tracking the DNA of Your Android Code

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In my previous article, we explored a process that developer teams can follow to manage the source code for software-related product development, using the...

Better Queries with MySQL, Part 3: The MyISAM Storage Engine

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MyISAM is MySQL's default storage engine, and is probably most commonly used by new adopters of MySQL. The objective of this article is to...

Device Drivers, Part 5: Character Device Files — Creation & Operations

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This article is a continuation of the series on Linux device drivers, and carries on the discussion on character drivers and their implementation. In my...

Kernel Debugging Using Kprobe and Jprobe

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Debugging is like plumbing; it involves fixing difficult, hidden problems -- so, besides the vital experience, both debuggers and plumbers must have a specialised...

Sed Explained, Part 1

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UNIX-like operating systems have numerous powerful utilities accessible via the command-line and shell-scripting, which are flexible enough to operate in a variety of problematic...

Securing Apache, Part 8: DoS & DDoS Attacks

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In this part of the series, we focus on DoS/DDoS attacks, which have been among the major threats to Web servers since the beginning...

Nessus with Metasploit — Track and Hack

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Networks play an important role in a sysadmin's life. But have you ever wondered about the security of your network, or tried to find...