Lazy Linux: 10 Essential Tricks For Admins
ibm.com — Learn these 10 tricks and you'll be the most powerful Linux® systems administrator in the universe...well, maybe not the universe, but you will need these tips to play in the big leagues. Learn about SSH tunnels, VNC, password recovery, console spying, and more. Examples accompany each trick, so you can duplicate them on your own systems. (Submitted by chris1234) More...
10 Important Linux Developments Everyone Should Know About
ibm.com — Much too much has happened with Linux in the last 10 years to do anything like a complete job of listing the important events and technological advances surrounding this operating system.But nevertheless,in celebration of our 10th birthday,the Linux zone team looks back and presents to you some major milestones. (Submitted by chris1234) More...
Make the most of large drives with GPT and Linux
ibm.com — Once a faraway problem, an important barrier in disk storage is fast becoming a reality: the venerable master boot record (MBR) partitioning scheme can't fully handle disks larger than 2TB. With 1TB-hard disks now common and 2TB-disks becoming available, forward-looking individuals are thinking about alternatives to the MBR partitioning scheme. (Submitted by chris1234) More...
10 Steps to UNIX Nirvana
ibm.com — This article provides 10 effective methods that can increase your productivity. The examples in this article use tcsh version 6 as a reference, but the ideas are portable to all variants of UNIX® shells. This article also refers to several open source tools available for the UNIX platform. (Submitted by chris1234) More...
Linux: Lean, clean, and green
ibm.com — Green IT is one of the hottest of today's technology trends, and the GNU/Linux® community has risen to the challenge. Along with several corporate partners, the GNU/Linux operating system provides solutions for dealing with power consumption, carbon emissions, and e-waste. (Submitted by chris1234) More...
Five network/system tricks for Linux on System z
ibm.com — Bringing up Linux® on an IBM® System z machine should be fairly easy, but problems can crop up. If you've had problems, try out these workarounds for annoying obstacles to starting Linux on an S/390 system: "route-unknown" messages, bad network service behaviors, file system corruption on shutdown, too-lengthy boot-path-device processes, and Virtua (Submitted by SirPopper) More...
VPS or Jails: Secure Linux containers cookbook
ibm.com — Lightweight containers, otherwise known as Virtual Private Servers (VPS) or Jails, are often thought of as a security tools designed to confine untrusted applications or users; but as presently constructed, these containers do not provide adequate security guarantees. By strengthening these containers using SELinux or Smack policy, a much more secu (Submitted by SirPopper) More...
5 innovations in the next 5 years
ibm.com — What's ahead for how we'll live and work Solar energy: Harness the power of 2,300 suns Voice browsing; Talk to the Web, and it will talk back Digital assistants: Enter the digitalized dressing room; Health forecasts: A genie in a lab coat will read your health destiny; Memory tools: Like an elephant, you'll never forget; (Submitted by SirPopper) More...
Speed up your Web pages - Twenty (plus) tips
ibm.com — Twenty (plus) tips that make all the difference Do you want faster-loading Web pages? Learn how you can make the browsing experience better for dial-up users by reducing loading times by as much as 80 percent, in some cases. (Submitted by SirPopper) More...
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