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IT Management Linux News for Jan 17, 2007
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internetnews.com: Sun Goes After Linux (Jan 17, 2007, 17:30)
"Sun Microsystems today announced a series of product and
strategic updates to its Solaris operating system, adding new
security and virtualization technologies in a renewed push into the
x86 market and against Linux..."
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EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Foil Wireless Poachers and Have Fun Doing It (Jan 17, 2007, 13:00)
"But those are the boring, old-fashioned methods. Today we're
going to look at some ways of having a little fun with wireless
freeloaders, and how to see who is doing what on your wireless
LAN."
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HowToForge: How to make Apache2 authenticate against MS SQL 2000 Server (Jan 17, 2007, 11:30)
"In a recent project I needed to make apache2 authenticate
against MS SQL 200 Server. I did some hacks to make it happen. So
to keep history log of what was done this document was made."
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OSWeekly: What's the Linux Holdup? (Jan 17, 2007, 10:00)
"Let's Make it Look Like Windows. Not! One of the biggest
annoyances I have with a number of beginner friendly distributions
is the all out effort to make it look as much like Windows as
possible."
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HowToForge: A Beginner's Guide To LVM (Jan 17, 2007, 08:30)
"This guide shows how to work with LVM (Logical Volume
Management) on Linux. It also describes how to use LVM together
with RAID1 in an extra chapter."
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Rudd-O.com: Backwards compatibility: not backward at all (Jan 17, 2007, 07:00)
"Face it: eschewing compatibility in favor of the "new
fashionable thing" saves a little time for the developer. But it
makes everyone else incur in exploding hidden costs, which only
increase with time."
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developerWorks: Why XML Internationalization is important (Jan 17, 2007, 05:30)
"One key benefit of XML is the fact that it was designed for
international use. But do you really understand the concepts of
internationalization and localization? This article explains what
they are, how they work, and why you want to use them."
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OSWeekly: Web OSes: Will They Ever Catch On? (Jan 17, 2007, 04:00)
"Almost like clockwork, people hoping to make their name during
what some call the "Web 2.0" gold rush are putting their AJAX and
Flash skills to the test with the concept of Web based operating
systems. Having tried as many as I can get my hands on, I'm still
quite reluctant to put a lot of faith into them for a number of
reasons."
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NewsFactor: Want To Buy a $100 Linux Laptop? (Jan 17, 2007, 01:00)
"According to one plan being considered, the computers would be
offered to customers who would have to purchase a minimum of two
laptops at a time -- with the second going to the developing
world."
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nixCraft: Samba share permissions simplified (Jan 17, 2007, 01:00)
"There are many ways to set permissions to your Samba server.
This article will cover some of the basic permissions and
permission precedence with examples."
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linux.inet.hr: How fast is your disk? (Jan 17, 2007, 00:15)
"Unfortunately, larger disk doesn't always mean faster disk.
What follows is an explanation of two techniques for measuring disk
performance in Linux."
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