The problem with distributed computing is that everyone with the technology to reverse-engineer your crypto chip can listen to your broadcast and know exactly what you’re trying to break. Build a robust distributed computing application that is opaque to observers even those who have access to the source code by attaching a simple neuron implementation to HTTP transport code.

HowtoForge: “This document describes how to set up and enable Hyperic HQ for monitoring on Ubuntu and Tomcat…”

Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users. Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and respond to the requests of the user base.

Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their des

GNOME 2.20.1 has been released. “This is the first update to GNOME 2.20.0. The update fixes all known and unknown crashers, even for those modules which haven’t released a new version (gnome-terminal).”

Fonts in Linux are crazy. Most Linux distributions ship with a big blob of serif, sans serif, and monospaced fonts, and there’s barely a pixel’s worth of difference between them. In this article, we’ll demonstrate how to better manage fonts in Linux, no matter what distribution you’re using.

The UNIX Porting Guide is a first stop for UNIX developers coming to Mac OS X. This document helps guide developers in bringing applications written for UNIX-based operating systems to Mac OS X. It provides the background needed to understand the operating system. It touches on some of the design decisions, and it provides a listing and discussion of some of the main areas that you should be concerned with in bringing UNIX applications to Mac OS X. It also points out some of the advanced fe

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, an open-source, image editing program. GIMP is used to process digital graphics and photographs. However, learning curve is little high with GIMP. This site provides the excellent set of GIMP 2 video demos. To view these short demonstrations, you need to have a video player capable of showing MS AVI DivX files (mpeg4) such as ffplay from ffmpeg, mplayer or xinelib based players.

Hot on the heels of 2.6.23, the 2.6.23.1
stable update is out. It contains a single patch fixing a data corruption problem with the sata_mv
driver.

The problem of cooling the computer is not new. The more powerful and faster computers become, the “hotter” they get. Coolers inside computer cases, video card and power supply units are quite common nowadays. However, hard disk has no additional means to cool them. Most hard disk manufacture recommends 35-4°C working temperature for a hard drive. Once it crossed the limit safety of your data and hard disk becomes critical. Computer hard drive is the main storage media for your data.

Hexus: “Once upon a time, people lived in caves and hunted animals with spears. Then, they recorded things from the TV onto small black cartridges filled with magnetic tape…”

Maarten’s Open Source Blog: “In this article I will describe some alternatives to try, without having to abandon Windows. That’s right, you can keep your current operating system in any case…!”

System and enviromental variables define parts of the system behavior so it’s worth knowing what they are, what they influence and how to adjust them to your needs. This is the last part of the “console basics” series.

Accessing your home server safely can be problematic, especially if you don’t have a fixed IP address, but with Linux, DynDNS, PAM, and NX Free you can create a safe remote access path to your machine.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 7 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

This technique – utilizing devilspie – will create a transparent terminal session on your desktop that will remain for the duration of your login (unless you exit the terminal session for some reason) This particular how-to addresses Ubuntu specifically, but I’ve done this successfully in 3 or 4 distributions.