Opinion: High-Performance Nonsense
(Oct 13, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (838 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "Quiz time. Get out your No. 2 computers and answer the following question: For the fastest and most reliable high-end computing for your enterprise, will your operating system be 1) Linux, 2) Solaris, 3) OpenVMS or 4) Windows?"

Shell Script To Back Up All MySQL Databases
(Oct 11, 2008, 02:07 UTC) (1730 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This script will create a backup of each table in every database (one file per table), compress it and upload it to a remote ftp."

Ubuntu's Balancing Act
(Oct 10, 2008, 18:35 UTC) (1852 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Open Enterprise: "Once it emerged that Google ran on GNU/Linux, there could be no more argument about the latter's suitability for the enterprise. Similarly, MySQL's adoption by just about every Web 2.0 company meant that it, too, could no longer be dismissed as underpowered."

Lessons Learned From AMD's Barcelona Mess
(Oct 9, 2008, 09:35 UTC) (1337 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: "AMD's Barcelona launch was bumpier than a 737 departing Chicago into a storm off the Great Lakes. Plagued by delay after delay, then by a bug in the processor after it was supposed to ship, Barcelona was a lesson in how not to launch a new product."

Create CentOS 5.2 Domu on Ubuntu Hardy Dom0
(Oct 9, 2008, 03:05 UTC) (962 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Images of xen on an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) server system (i386). Linux distributions that can run as Xen guests out of the box, obviating the need to create your own custom filesystems. The filesystems on jailtime.org have already been tweaked to deal with Xen's idiosyncracies, and are also designed to be lightweight and minimally divergent from the original distribution."

CERN Fires Up Massive Grid
(Oct 7, 2008, 20:05 UTC) (886 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Grid Computing Planet "The grid combines the computing resources of more than 100,000 processors from 140 institutions in 33 countries, creating a massive distributed supercomputer that will provide more than 7,000 physicists around the world with near real-time access to LHC data and the power to process it, CERN said."

Data Processing Scores Big Success! Linux Loses, Again!
(Oct 6, 2008, 15:33 UTC) (2285 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Managing L'unix: "At 8:30 AM in our national capital (Ottawa) on September 30th, the only response available from the https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca site was that: "The site is down for planned maintenance.""

Red Hat Undercuts Microsoft on High-Performance OS Pricing
(Oct 3, 2008, 12:02 UTC) (1113 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
InfoWorld: "Factoring in fees for Microsoft's maintenance agreement, one Windows HPC 2008 Server would cost $800 over three years, while Red Hat HPC Solution is about $750."

When It Comes to Openness, Think Beyond the Code
(Oct 2, 2008, 20:32 UTC) (868 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "Yes, its date of publication was 1997. What makes this brochure different is that it is open. Perhaps this is less impressive in light of the advent of wikis, but the purpose and intent of the brochure is still remarkable, and well worth expanding upon."

Tip: Easily Enable Syntax Highlighting in Nano Editor
(Sep 27, 2008, 20:08 UTC) (2805 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
TuxArea: "Nano is one of the most lightweight and user-friendly text editors for command-line."

Telecoms Networks - Carrier Grade Linux Comes of Age
(Sep 27, 2008, 00:03 UTC) (1911 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ElectronicsWeekly.com: "The promise of Linux that is robust enough to be used in telecoms networks has been a long time coming, but the fourth generation of specifications for Carrier Grade Linux is now becoming well-established."

Red Hat HPC Linux Cometh
(Sep 26, 2008, 22:45 UTC) (1760 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Inquirer: "Red Hat will announce its first high performance computing optimised distro, the Red Hat HPC on 7 October."

Richard Stallman Looks Back at 25 Years of the GNU Project
(Sep 26, 2008, 18:32 UTC) (1706 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
linux.com: "On September 27, 1983, Richard M. Stallman announced his intention to found the GNU project in order to build a free operating system. Now, 25 years later, the Free Software Foundation is marking the anniversary of the announcement with a month-long celebration."

Fedora @5: How a Community Approach Works
(Sep 26, 2008, 15:36 UTC) (1045 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
internetnews.com: "Seeing the Fedora Project pass its five year milestone got me thinking about the early days of the community-based Linux distribution and how far it's come."

Supercharge Your LAN With Condor, Part 2
(Sep 25, 2008, 20:28 UTC) (1696 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "In the previous article of this 2-part series, you got your Condor client and server set up. Now let's test them out by submitting a job."

Where Windows is Number 2 to Linux
(Sep 25, 2008, 16:38 UTC) (3252 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
ComputerWorld Blogs: "Microsoft encourages us to think of Linux, when we think of it as all, as an also-ran operating systems for nerds."

Astrophysicists Rely on Linux to Crunch Data
(Sep 24, 2008, 16:02 UTC) (1435 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OSTATIC: "Most were disappointed when technical issues forced the Collider's early shutdown for repairs. Few people, though, mentioned that part of the multi-billion dollar project relies heavily on Linux."

Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source
(Sep 23, 2008, 19:01 UTC) (3708 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Slashdot: "Zarafa decided to put their successful Exchange server replacement under GPLv3."

Let's Move FOSS to Its Logical Conclusion
(Sep 23, 2008, 18:02 UTC) (1782 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: "If free software is to achieve its goal of guaranteeing that users can control their computing, then a completely free operating system is a basic necessity."

VirtualBox update brings improved performance and 64-bit support
(Sep 23, 2008, 07:32 UTC) (2504 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Sun has released the first update to its recently purchased desktop virtualization program, now called Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0. While not a major update, it does bring improved performance and 64-bit operating system support to the popular open source virtualization program."

Microsoft Takes High Performance Computing Mainstream
(Sep 22, 2008, 21:02 UTC) (1962 reads) (8 talkbacks) (feedback)
eWeek: ""We're making supercomputer performance available to companies that might otherwise not be able to afford it," Laing said."

Monitor Ubuntu File System Activity With Inotify
(Sep 21, 2008, 04:02 UTC) (2877 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Inotify is a Linux® feature that monitors file system operations, such as read, write, and create. Inotify is reactive, surprisingly simple to use, and far more efficient than, say, busy polling from a cron job. Learn how to integrate inotify into your own applications, and discover a set of command-line tools you can use to further automate system administration."

UCSD's StarCAVE Is a Real 3D Super-High-Def Danger Room
(Sep 19, 2008, 23:32 UTC) (1781 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Gizmodo: "UC at San Diego has the closest thing to an X-Men-style Danger Room in its new StarCAVE, a small room that entirely surrounds you, hurtling 68 million pixels at your eyeballs at near-perfect resolution. Pop on polarized glasses and the whole thing goes 3D."

Intel's Latest Datacenter Discovery: Fresh Air
(Sep 19, 2008, 18:02 UTC) (1443 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: "A research paper from Intel shows the chip giant figured out what many apartment and home dwellers have known for years: using a fan to pull in cool air from the outside is as good as an air conditioner."

Supercharge Your LAN With Condor, part 1
(Sep 18, 2008, 23:03 UTC) (2075 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "Juliet Kemp shows how you don't need a dedicated computing cluster to perform big processing jobs- you can turn your LAN into a part-time cluster with Condor, which intelligently uses idle CPU cycles for powerful parallel processing."

Cinelerra 4 Arrives
(Sep 17, 2008, 21:31 UTC) (2419 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LWN: "Unleash the 50,000 watt flamethrower of content creation in your UNIX box. Cinelerra does primarily 3 things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. It's a movie studio in a box."

VMware Wants to Trump Windows and Linux Servers With its Virtual Datacenter OS
(Sep 17, 2008, 11:01 UTC) (1658 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet: "With the Virtual Datacenter OS, VMware wants to essentially de-emphasize the traditional OS in the server room (Windows, Linux, and Unix) and use a new software layer-- the VDC-OS-- to aggregate different types of hardware resources and make the hardware itself invisible to the applications that run on it."

How to Build an Open Source Mainframe in Your Kitchen
(Sep 17, 2008, 08:01 UTC) (3074 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Interop News: "Can you build a mainframe computer at home in your spare time? On your kitchen table? Using only common utensils and your bare hands?"

Linux Scalability in a NUMA World
(Sep 15, 2008, 19:02 UTC) (1467 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "Architectural features, that were once only present on very large computer systems, are gradually being implemented on ever smaller systems...Here I’ll describe the best way to get the best performance out of a NUMA machine."

Using VisualVM to Improve Liferay Performance
(Sep 15, 2008, 10:02 UTC) (1305 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Joomla!: "In this article I show how I used VisualVM to look at the garbage collection and the configuration and statistics of Ehcache to increase the performance by 10-15 times, to about 200-300 requests per second."

SUSE Linux Virtualized on Windows--Why?
(Sep 12, 2008, 17:47 UTC) (2007 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Negative Approach: "Linux running in a VM on top of a MS host platform..because everyone wants to put their Corvette on top of a skateboard."

The CERN Large Hadron Collider is Using KDE
(Sep 12, 2008, 04:32 UTC) (3505 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Notes on ScopePort: "I just read that the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that started it first “live” runs today is using KDE for at least some parts of the projects software. This screenshot of a KDE at CERN/LHC looks like a monitoring program (with a knote ;)):"

London Stock Exchange in Denial over System Outage
(Sep 11, 2008, 18:33 UTC) (2516 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld UK: "The LSE absolved its core TradElect platform from blame. The system, designed and built by Accenture, runs on HP ProLiant Servers and Microsoft .Net and SQL Server 2000 systems."

SUSE-Linux-on-IBM-Loaned Mainframe Becomes Teaching Ground
(Sep 11, 2008, 14:33 UTC) (1508 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Search Enterprise Linux: "While most computer science students learn skills on x86 servers, their counterparts at the University of Arkansas will now get hands-on experience on a new IBM system z900 running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise."

The World's Biggest Science Experiment Runs Linux
(Sep 10, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (3316 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Netstat -vat: "Beyond the 20 years it took to build and half of all the world's astrophysicists it also takes another key ingredient to make LHC work -- Linux."

The Cold Hard Facts About Heat
(Sep 8, 2008, 17:32 UTC) (1795 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "Not only does green HPC save money and reduce power usage, it also increase reliability."

Centralized Access With iSCSI Wraps it up: Open Source SANs, part 4
(Sep 6, 2008, 18:01 UTC) (2398 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Search Enterprise Linux: "If you've read the three previous parts of this tip, you should now have two servers running and a Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) available between them. The iSCSI target service will draw the two servers and DRBD together to create a fully functional SAN."

Adding Heartbeat to Your Open Source SAN: Open Source SANs, part 3
(Sep 6, 2008, 17:01 UTC) (2142 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Search Enterprise Linux: "Heartbeat is a monitoring tool that will help you to make the most of your SAN by catching problems before they interfere with your productivity. Part three of this four-part tip shows you how to install a Heartbeat cluster in an open source SAN."

Setting up DRBD in an Open Source SAN: Open Source SANs, part 2
(Sep 6, 2008, 16:01 UTC) (2157 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Search Enterprise Linux: "As we established in part one of this series on open storage area networks (SANs), building an open source SAN provides a cost-effective alternative for companies with a tight budget. Now that we've established the merits and some of the important considerations in creating open source SANs, we'll explain how to set up the Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) service, which allows for replicated storage in a SAN."

Build Your Own iSCSI SAN Appliances With Linux, part 1
(Sep 6, 2008, 15:01 UTC) (3267 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Search Enterprise Linux: "Yet most companies need a SAN, because – in my opinion – it's probably the best way to avoid losing critical data when server storage crashes occur. You don't need to pay for a proprietary SAN appliance, because you can build your own SAN using open source software. In this four-part tip you'll learn how to set up such an appliance setup."

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