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Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

By LG Staff
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Corrupt dpkg?
Teacher Throws Fit Over Student's Linux CD
Tesseract at Distributed Proofreaders
Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer (NY Times)
[SEMI-OT] This is to all the Gmail users out there...
What not to do when admin of Unix/Linux box
In RI federal court - Harvard vs. the RIAA

Talkback

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

By LG Staff
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2-Cent Tips

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

By LG Staff
Two-cent Tip: executing two different consecutive commands with same set of parameter
2-cent Tip: Temporary kill files
2-cent Tip: audio ping
2-cent Tip: 'hostwatch'

News Bytes

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

By Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff
Contents:
News in General
LPI to launch new LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 certification programs
New Fedora 10 Adds Security and Virtualization
SUSE Linux Real Time Sets Performance Record
Flash Security Patch
Oracle Contributes Data Integrity Code to Linux Community
MySQL 5.1 GA Boosts Large-Scale Database Applications
Toshiba, IBM, and AMD Develop World's Smallest SRAM Cell
Conferences and Events
Distro News
Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 2 released
Good OS Announces gOS Cloud Operating System
openSUSE 11.1 Improves User Experience
Mandriva presents new Mandriva Flash 2009
Slackware 12.2 now out
Software and Product News
Adobe AIR 1.5 Now Available for Linux
Ubuntu on Amazon EC2 Beta Released
New VirtualBox 2.1 Improves Virtualization Performance
JBoss Application Server gets Java EE 5 Compatibility
HP expands Linux offerings for business and education
Zmanda Launches Advanced Backup Based on OpenSolaris ZFS

Gnuplot in Action

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

By Philipp K. Janert

I have been using gnuplot for 15 years, and it is an indispensable part of my toolset: one of the handful of programs I cannot do without.

Joey's Notes: Sendmail and Dovecot e-mail on RHEL 5

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

By Joey Prestia

The topic of this month's article is setting up and configuring a Sendmail and Dovecot e-mail server on RHEL 5.x to provide secure IMAPS mail retrieval with SMTP authenticated relay for our users. Configuring a mail server is an easy task, but it must be done with a security-focused mindset: careless mistakes or misconfiguration are what the spammers are looking for in order to use your mailserver as a slave relay. If a company's server is hijacked, this could have some nasty consequences. The company's IP could be blacklisted; their legitimate mail could be rejected; they might even get shut down by their ISP. Such a situation could cost the company a great deal of money and their reputation, and you (as system administrator) your job. SMTP authenticated relay allows the users to safely connect from wherever they are while keeping the undesirables out.

Using Hyperestraier to search your stuff

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

By Karl Vogel

I have files, mail, and source code on my system going clear back to 1993. I've tried WAIS, Glimpse, SWISH, and one or two home-grown systems to index it for searching, but so far QDBM and Hyperestraier have given the best results.

Getting Started with the Exim Mail Server

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

By Neil Youngman

Most Linux users don't need to think about mail servers. A typical Linux installation will just have the distribution's default mail server installed, and it will do very little.

XKCD

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

By Randall Munroe

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More XKCD cartoons can be found here.

The Linux Launderette

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:29:30 -0500

By LG Staff
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