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LXer: Linux News

LXer: Linux News
Kill-switch coming to smartphones The CTIA announced an industry initiative to mandate "kill switch" and to "impose tough penalties against those caught stealing devices or modifying them illegally". How to introduce open source to your public library I was intrigued to read this recent article in The Guardian about public libraries’ new role as community problem solvers. If you read carefully into this article you’ll notice the author talks about libraries becoming more involved with "proactive community engagement." This means that libraries are looking to community members as partners to help solve community problems.

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Kerberos/Troubleshooting - Joomla! Authentication Tools (JAuthTools) From Authentication Tools for Joomla! (JAuthTools) This page documents some solutions for common Kerberos issues. It isn't comprehensive but should give you a guide what to look for when resolving the issues. kinit(v5): KRB5 error code 68 while getting initial credentials Internet 101.101.101.101 There's a lot of confusion out there. Many people equate the World Wide Web with the Internet. Others think that e-mail is the internet. Still others think that the internet is one big library. It's really none of these things at all.

Apache Web server - Complete Guide Updated: February 1, 2011 This article includes a free PDF guide available for download! The Web server - Apache - Complete Guide was one of the many topics covered in a series of books that I started writing on Linux, the goal of which was to help any enthusiastic Windows user or a Linux newbie become a powerful, confident Linux professional. Linux System Administration and Configuration Basic command line: Also see ntpstat, smbstatus, ifstat, prtstat, pidstat, lpstat, mailstat, sar, cifsiostat, ... GUI/Graphical: Visual Basic Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model first released in 1991. Microsoft intends Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use.[1][2] Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects. A programmer can create an application using the components provided by the Visual Basic program itself. Over time the community of programmers have developed new third party components, keeping this programming language to modern standards.[3][4][5][6][7] Programs written in Visual Basic can also use the Windows API, which requires external function declarations.

Minimal Linux distros From OLPC There are a number of Linux distros which attempt to strip Linux down to a minimal set of elements that can run on computers with reduced capabilities. Some of them are targeted at old computers. Some are targeted at so-called embedded systems which are built into machinery, vehicles, home appliances, PDAs and mobile phones. Installation/RAID1+LVM If you find this information applicable to additional versions/releases, please edit this page and modify this header to reflect that. Please also include any necessary modifications for this information to apply to the additional versions. All the following commands should be run as root. sudo -s -H This guide assumes you've successfully setup the hardware and got a bootable (but unconfigured) Ubuntu server install. It may work on previous/future versions of Ubuntu or even other distros.

Visual C++ Many applications require redistributable Visual C++ packages to function correctly. These packages are often installed independently of applications, allowing multiple applications to make use of the package while only having to install it once. These Visual C++ redistributable and runtime packages are mostly installed for standard libraries that many applications use.[3] List of Linux distributions Timeline of the development of various Linux distributions This page provides general information about notable Linux distributions in the form of a categorized list. Distributions are organized into sections by the major distribution they are based on, or the package management system they are based around. RPM-based[edit] CentOS/RHEL-based[edit] Fedora-based[edit]

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