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Linux history: 0.02 and 0.03 releases memories
2007-09-04 00:00:00
"Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?" began the October 5th, 1991 announcement for Linux kernel version 0.02 on the comp.os.minix newsgroup. In the release notes, Linus Torvalds continued, "as I mentioned a month ago, I'm working on ...
More About: History , Memories , Tory

Keep contacts and calendar/datebook of Motorola Razr V3 saved
2007-09-04 00:00:00
Some time ago I wrote about syncing mobile phone contacts and calendar with online service ZYB. Today I'd like to share my experience of Motorola Razr V3 sync by means of this free service. I'd like to mention that advantage of this method is that it doesn't matter what operating ...
More About: Calendar , Lend , Contacts

Claws Mail 3.0.0 released
2007-09-04 00:00:00
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. 3rd September 2007 Claws Mail 3.0.0 is released. Now it's GPLv3 and has the following updates: Added Tags feature Threads can now be sorted by most recent message Added "/View/Show or Hide/Column headers" Added 'watch thread' feature Enabled the running of folder Processing rules on ...
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EV-DO Internet access with Ubuntu Linux
2007-09-04 00:00:00
The following manual is applicable for 32bit Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) and 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and Verizon Motorola v3 EV-DO enabled phone connected via USB cable as well as number of other EV-DO cards like PC5750. Make sure your device is activated by service provider and if possible ...
More About: Linux , Internet , Ubuntu Linux , Access

Manage gzip files on-the-fly (zcommands)
2007-09-04 00:00:00
Both Linux and Unix like OSes comes with z commands. It allows you to read gzip compressed text files using zless, zcat and zmore etc. gzip reduces the size of the files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension .gz, while keeping ...
More About: Files , Manage

Linux and Solaris filesystems comparison
2007-09-04 00:00:00
This is my attempt to cut through the hype and uncertainty to find a storage subsystem that works. I compared XFS and EXT4 under Linux with ZFS under OpenSolaris . The machine is a 2200MHz Athlon 64 with 1GB of memory and 8 400GB disks attached to an Areca ...
More About: Comparison , Stem , Filesystem

Web server cluster with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
2007-09-04 00:00:00
Spreading a workload across multiple processors, coupled with various software recovery techniques, provides a highly available environment and enhances overall RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) of the environment. Benefits ...
More About: Linux , Web Server , Server , Enterprise , Cluster