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Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

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2-Cent Tips

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

By LG Staff2-cent Tip: Perl Search Directory Function
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2-cent Tip: make script command logs without escape character
2-cent Tip: Poisoning the spammers

News Bytes

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

By Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff
Contents:
News in General
Wind River joins forces with Intel on Auto Linux
First Moonlight Release
NetBeans Community Links to PHP Community with NetBeans Early Access for PHP
Ubuntu Live 2008 Canceled
OpenSolaris goes LiveCD
HP and Novell offer Migration Program for HP Identity Management Customers
Concordia Project To Tackle Security Policy & Standards at Burton CatalystConference in June
Conferences and Events
Legislation and More Legislation
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Distro News
Fedora 9 is Out!
openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 to be last
Damn Small Linux v4.4RC1
MEPIS antiX 7.2 released
Software and Product News
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is out
Adobe Flash Player 10 beta released for Linux
Melas v0.10.0
Traffic Control
Sun Unveils New Quad-Core AMD Opteron Systems

Deividson on Databases: Triggers

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

By Deividson Luiz Okopnik

Triggers are pieces of code executed automatically when a certain action happens. That action can be any kind of data manipulation (insertion, update, or deletion). It can also be executed before or after the actual data manipulation, having different options and uses (validating data, allowing or disallowing data manipulations, changing other data, etc.).

gDesklets: Beauty with a Purpose

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

By Maxin B. John

gDesklets provides a bunch of easy-to-use yet eye-pleasing applications for the GNU/Linux desktop. Mini-applications called desklets can be developed and executed for the desktop to meet specific needs. Since gDesklets is known to work on KDE and XFCE, along with GNOME, it can provide an enchanting look to the Linux Desktop.

Monitoring Function Calls

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

By Aurelian Melinte

There are tools to monitor the system calls an application makes, but how about monitoring your own written functions - inside the program itself? What if we want to check when a function is entered, which arguments is the function called with, when the function exits, and what the returned value is? This article presents a proof-of-concept tool to achieve this without modifying the application's code.

Using Crontab

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

By Joey Prestia

Crontab is a very useful command used to run unattended scheduled tasks, which can decrease administrative time. There are also two similar commands: anacron and at. Anacron is for scheduling commands that do not require the computer to be on at all times; Anacron uses day-, week-, and month-type intervals. The "at" command runs a task once, at a set time, and can also be very useful. But most commonly used is crontab, because it is more versatile, and can be customized to run at any time interval.

USB thumb drive RAID

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

By January Weiner

I have a database that I'm working on, and sometimes I need to work on it on my laptop. However, the database is really demanding, and it is just too slow on my laptop's hard disk. I quickly found out that the limitation was the speed of the hard drive, and not so much the CPU. What I needed was a fast external hard drive. Anyway, I always wanted to play with a RAID system.

XKCD

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

By Randall Munroe

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HelpDex

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

By Shane Collinge

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The Linux Launderette

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:33 -0500

By LG Staff2-cent tips: convert the collection of your mp3 files into ogg
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