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Features of Open Source GPS Tracking System

Over the past few years, Global Positioning Tracking System (GPS) applications have become extremely popular among automobile consumers and in fact anyone who drives a vehicle on a regular basis probably use them. So much so that many car manufacturers... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Linux is Full with Educational Software

If you are having problems with getting good educational software that is affordable, then think again because Linux is here for you. Okay what a lot of people are not aware of is that there is a lot of wonderful educational software that can be used on... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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A Free IT Ebook from Packt

Today I’ve received an email from PackT, a really interesting online publisher that has many interesting IT titles in its shelf, usually I don’t do promotions in my articles, unless iI think it’s an interesting thing for my readers,... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Cloud Computing and Linux

In the IT shops have long proliferated intense religious wars between popular technologies. From the programmer’s perspective, debates over Java versus .Net or PHP versus ASP have caused many high profile feuds. Similarly in the system administrator... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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FreedomBox 0.1 released

FreedomBox is an interesting project whose mission is the creation of a small, cheap and simple computer that serves freedom in the home, so also not-techie people can use advanced software to achieve privacy and security. This is their Vision statement:... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Cacti Makes Device Monitoring Simple

This is an article of mine, first published on Wazi Every organization must monitor its infrastructure’s uptime and performance. While the popular Nagios application is a good general-purpose monitoring program that you can extend with plugins to... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Cacti Makes Device Monitoring Simple

This is an article of mine, first published on Wazi Every organization must monitor its infrastructure’s uptime and performance. While the popular Nagios application is a good general-purpose monitoring program that you can extend with plugins to... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Easily manage your PPA in Ubuntu with Y PPA Manager

Ubuntu software repository is one of the bigger, and this means that you can easily install a lot of software with the Ubuntu Software Center or from the command line with a simple sudo apt-get install softwarename, but sometimes you want a software that... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Everything you need to know about APC (Alternate PHP cache)

If you are a system administrator and you want to push the performance of your PHP website such as Drupal, WordPress or wrote by you or other programmers, there are good chances that you’ve heard about the Alternate PHP Cache or simply APC. The... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Everything you need to know about APC (Alternate PHP cache)

If you are a system administrator and you want to push the performance of your PHP website such as Drupal, WordPress or wrote by you or other programmers, there are good chances that you’ve heard about the Alternate PHP Cache or simply APC. The... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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DNSCrypt, crypt your DNS request

OpenDNS is a popular DNS provider used widely both in the server as in home desktop, one of the feature they provide to their customer is DNSCrypt, a security enhancement that should add protection against all DNS based attacks, such as cache poisoning.... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Csync2 a filesystem syncronization tool for Linux

Sometimes is useful to sync automatically files over the net between 2 or more computers, maybe you want to keep some configuration files aligned on different servers or maybe you have a cluster of web servers and you want to keep their document root... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Csync2 a filesystem syncronization tool for Linux

Sometimes is useful to sync automatically files over the net between 2 or more computers, maybe you want to keep some configuration files aligned on different servers or maybe you have a cluster of web servers and you want to keep their document root... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Some submissions from the Zorin Contest

Around a month ago we ( Zorin OS team, Linuxaria and DarkDuck) announced the winners of the Zorin Contest and we published their works on our sites. The Contest has been really successful and so, looking at all the works we have received, I’ve... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Secure Deletion of Data in Linux

I think that every user that has some skill know that a simple rm of a file or deleting it via any file manager is not enough to really remove it from your hard disk. In Linux there are some tools that can offer you way more secure to really delete your... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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