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Paul Vixie and Corey Shields Evaluating Firefox Guinness World Record Attempt

Posted: 21 Jun 2008 05:47 AM CDT

Paul Vixie and Corey Shields currently serves as a judges for the Mozilla Foundation's "Download Day", an attempt to set a Guiness World Record for most downloads in a single day for a new piece of software

Linux udev tip: Assign Static SCSI Device Name

Posted: 20 Jun 2008 01:48 PM CDT

udev allows Linux users to have a dynamic /dev directory and it provides the ability to have persistent device names. In this tip you will learn about creating the static SCSI device name for /block/sdd as /dev/scsiharddisk.

Project Spacewalk: Red Hat Open Sourced RHN Software

Posted: 20 Jun 2008 11:50 AM CDT

Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived.

Security Alert: Ubuntu Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Posted: 20 Jun 2008 09:34 AM CDT

Multiple buffer overflows were discovered in the Ubuntu Linux kernel and can be corrected by upgrading your system to latest kernel version.

Download Opensuse Linux 11 CD / DVD ISO Images

Posted: 19 Jun 2008 01:32 PM CDT

Opensuse Linux version 11.0 has been released and available for download from mirrors

Women in Linux, BSD and Open Source Projects

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 07:57 PM CDT

A list of open source project run and controlled by women in various organizations around the world.

Firefox 3 Was Download 8 Million Times In 24 Hour Period

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 07:47 PM CDT

FireFox 3 exceeded 8 million downloads in 24 hour period. You need to be patient as judges and Guinness World Records validate record attempt.

From Redmond With Love - IE Team Sends A Cake TO Mozilla

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 06:44 PM CDT

In honor of today's Firefox 3 release (17-June-2008), Microsoft's Internet Explorer team gave a cake to Mozilla.

Windows Vista Failure: Pay Extra $50 To Get Aging Windows XP

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 04:39 PM CDT

Want XP on a new Dell? You'll pay up to $50 extra for the aging OS - Vostro line gets surcharges; Latitude, OptiPlex, Precision get no-cost downgrades.

Reddit Web 2.0 Social News Website Releases Source Code

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 04:21 PM CDT

On June 18, 2008, Reddit became an open source project. All of the code and libraries written for Reddit became freely available.

Freebsd: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.6" not found Error and Solution

Posted: 22 Jun 2008 09:56 AM CDT

When I run portmanager I get following error - "freebsd /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object"libc.so.6" not found". How do I fix this error?

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FreeBSD make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop Error and Solution

Posted: 21 Jun 2008 08:14 PM CDT

I'm trying to recompile my kernel by tying the following commands "make buildkernel KERNCONF=NEWKEN". Butm I'm bumped with an error that read as follows - "make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop Error and Solution". How do I fix this error?

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Linux Software RAID - Failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md0 invalid argument Error and Solution

Posted: 20 Jun 2008 01:12 PM CDT

Explains how to fix Linux software RAID when RAID metadata is lost or is no longer consistent.

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Firefox 3 Install Firebug Addon Software

Posted: 19 Jun 2008 05:52 AM CDT

My current version is disabled after upgrade. How do I install Firebug under Firefox 3 web browser?

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Debian / Ubuntu Linux: Send Automatic Email Notification When Security Upgrades Available

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 07:39 PM CDT

How do I force apt-get to send me email when upgrades or security updates available under Debian or Ubuntu Linux? Do I need to write a shell script which generates a mail with a list of all packages currently pending an upgrade?

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Linux Check Health of 3ware RAID Array

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 01:59 PM CDT

How do I check the health of my 3ware RAID array under any Linux distribution? How do I access 3ware RAID Array web interface?

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How To Install firefox-3.0.tar.bz2 in Linux

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 11:50 AM CDT

How To Install downloaded Firefox 3.0 tar.gz / firefox-3.0.tar.bz2 file under any Linux distribution?

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CentOS / Red Hat Linux Find Out Latest Available Updated Package or Kernel Version

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 10:13 AM CDT

I know how to find out current running kernel version under CentOS Enterprise Linux 4.6 x86_64, but how do I find out latest available kernel version? How do I find out if it's the latest one? How to find the latest release version for package called xyz or kernel package?

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How To Set Caching DNS Server

Posted: 16 Jun 2008 06:31 PM CDT

How do I set caching dns server to speed up dns lookup for my LAN (500 PC)? The DNS lookups creating a lot of network activity. There are a few times when this causes performance issues. How do I configure caching dns under Debian Linux?

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