- BSD: The Other Free UNIX Family
- Jan 20, 2006
- Berkley Software Distribution (BSD) has grown into almost a complete replacement for UNIX, with numerous enhancements. David Chisnall explains why the BSD family has found its way into a large number of systems and what these systems can do for you.
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- Building a DHTML Drop Down Menu with Dreamweaver
- Oct 25, 2002
- Macromedia Dreamweaver helps you incorporate DHTML without having to learn the underlying code. Learn here how to use it.
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- Building a Linux Cluster, Part 1: Why Bother?
- Mar 4, 2005
- Rob Lucke attacks the why, what, and how of building a Linux cluster. He begins by showing how cluster computing can save bunches of money while simultaneously providing more power.
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- Building a Linux Cluster, Part 2: What's Involved?
- Apr 15, 2005
- Now that we've explored why cluster computing is a great idea (more power for less money) in Part 1, Rob Lucke describes the various cluster components and discusses some of the possibilities for designing and building your own cluster.
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- Building a Linux Cluster, Part 3: How To Get Started
- Apr 22, 2005
- Now that he has covered why cluster computing is a great idea and what's involved in doing it in Parts 1 & 2, Rob Lucke concludes this series by describing how to take those first steps on the road to building a Linux cluster for your organization.
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- Building a Linux Kernel
- Dec 19, 2003
- Hardware and security issues sometimes make compiling your own Linux kernel a necessity. Learn how to overcome the challenges and build the kernel you need with this beginner's guide.
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- Building a Linux-Driven Digital Picture Frame, Part 1
- Mar 18, 2005
- If you want a digital picture frame, you can expect to pay anywhere between $300 and $2,000. In this article, Seth Fogie provides a very inexpensive ($50) alternative that can give you much the same effect, but for a fraction of the cost.
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- Building a Linux-Driven Digital Picture Frame, Part 2
- Mar 25, 2005
- In part 2 of his series on converting an old laptop into a digital picture frame, Seth Fogie loads Linux and assembles the finished product.
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- Building Web Forms with Dreamweaver 4
- Oct 11, 2002
- The most compelling reason to use Macromedia Dreamweaver is its powerful group of visual tools. Tony Arguelles shows you how to use these to build a common requirement for a Web site: the "contact us" form.
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- Building Windows Store Apps with with HTML5 and JavaScript
- Feb 20, 2014
- This chapter teaches the basics of building Windows Store apps, showing how to take advantage of the features of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 to build, run, and debug a Windows Store app.
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- Burn CDs with the Solaris™ 8 Operating Environment
- Sep 7, 2001
- CD-ROM drives are commonly used for duplicating existing CDs, and for making CD data backups of hard disk files. This article demonstrates how both tasks can be accomplished using cdrecord on the Solaris™ Operating Environment.
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- Capsicum: Lightweight Isolation for FreeBSD Processes
- Jul 9, 2012
- David Chisnall looks at Capsicum, a new capability-oriented security model in FreeBSD 9, and how it can be used to implement reduced and separated privilege with small modifications to existing applications.
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- Changes in Ubuntu: Five Stages of Grief
- Dec 22, 2009
- Kyle Rankin points out the most distressing changes in Ubuntu and explains why you need to suffer through them and ultimately come to acceptance.
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- Charlie Hunt on Java Performance Monitoring and Tuning
- Oct 4, 2011
- Steven Haines and Charlie Hunt, co-author of Java Performance, talk about performance issues, application monitoring, scalability vs performance, and the impact cloud computing has on application monitoring and performance management.
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- ClamAV: A Workable Linux Anti-Virus Scanner
- Apr 1, 2008
- Internet consultant A. Lizard say yes, you need a good Linux antivirus program, and he shows you how to install ClamAV in a Debian environment.
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- Cluster and Complex Design Issues
- Feb 8, 2002
- This sample chapter from the Sun BluePrints book Designing Solutions with Sun Cluster 3.0 examines how failures occur in complex systems and shows methods that contain, isolate, report, and repair failures.
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- Clustering Overview
- Nov 2, 2001
- For years now, Linux has been used as a very cost-effective solution in clusters. Matt Sherer explores the common means of clustering today and looks at where Linux clustering is going in the future.
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- CoffeeScript in a Nutshell, Part 1: An Introduction to CoffeeScript
- Sep 11, 2013
- Jeff Friesen introduces you to CoffeeScript and shows you how to obtain and use the CoffeeScript compiler.
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- CoffeeScript in a Nutshell, Part 2: CoffeeScript Language Basics
- Sep 11, 2013
- Jeff Friesen introduces the basic language features of CoffeeScript that you must understand before diving into advanced language features.
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- CoffeeScript in a Nutshell, Part 3: CoffeeScript Functions and Classes
- Sep 11, 2013
- One of CoffeeScript's key strengths is that almost everything is an expression. In addition to learning about this concept in Part 3 of Jeff Friesen's four-part series on CoffeeScript, you explore CoffeeScript's new and improved operators, destructuring assignments, decisions, and loops (including 'for' comprehensions).
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