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| myKP ADSL2+ Powered by Telstra Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 @ 9:15 AM by mayhem |  Australia's newest ISP, myKP has announced today that it has chosen Telstra as its exclusive ADSL2+ partner and has started the processes of full integration between Telstra and the myKP Hero Platform.
myKP has teamed up with Telstra to bring Hero to more users. The myKP trial currently underway is proving a smash hit among users. As part of our agreement with Telstra, myKP will have access to over 1400 Telstra ADSL2+ enabled exchanges nation wide and will deliver services to all exchanges.
Telstra represented the best coverage as well as the best ordering and support options. In addition Telstra were the only vendor capable of demonstrating their commitment to continued product development and innovation in line with myKP's plans for Hero. | | |
| BASH 4.0 Released Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 @ 8:23 AM by mayhem |  "The widely used Bourne-Again Shell (BASH) version 4.0 is out. The new major release fixes several remaining bugs in the 3.x releases, and introduces a bunch of new features. The most notable new features are associative arrays, improvements to the programmable completion functionality, case-modifying word expansions, co-processes, support for the `**' special glob pattern, and additions to the shell syntax and redirections. The shell has been changed to be more rigorous about parsing commands inside command substitutions, fixing one piece of POSIX non-compliance. Most of us will probably wait for the distros to test the new version and upgrade gradually, but you always have the option of grabbing the source and compiling it yourself. Enjoy." (Source: Slashdot) | | |
| Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 @ 10:35 AM by mayhem |  "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) after 22 months of constant development. With 12 supported computer architectures, more than 23,000 packages built from over 12,000 source packages and 63 languages for the new graphical installer, this release sets new records, once again. Software available in 5.0 includes Linux 2.6.26, KDE 3.5.10, Gnome 2.22.2, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, Iceweasel 3.0.6, Apache 2.2.9, Xen 3.2.1 and GCC 4.3.2. Other notable features are X autoconfiguring itself, full read-write support for NTFS, Java programs in the main repository and a single Blu-Ray disc installation media. You can get the ISOs via bittorrent. The Debian Project also wishes to announce that this release is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian Developer who died on December 26th, 2008 in a tragic car accident. As a valuable member of the Debian Project, he will be sorely missed." (Source: Slashdot) | | |
| February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 Posted Monday, February 9, 2009 @ 9:19 PM by mayhem | | "Over at Linux Magazine Online, Jon maddog Hall writes that on Friday the 13th, 2009 at 11:31:30pm UTC UNIX time will reach 1,234,567,890. This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST. Matias Palomec has a perl script you an use to see what time that will be for you: perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";' Now, while this is not the UNIX epoch, Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out." (Source: Slashdot) | | |
| No Download Caps - Newest Aussie ISP 'myKP' to shake up the market Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 @ 9:30 PM by mayhem | Australia’s newest ISP, myKP, stands ready to shake up Australian Internet access with the launch of broadband Internet access with no download caps. Called the myKP Hero Platform.
"myKP Hero is an in home service and operates in similar style to your existing provider. The service is fully standards based and will come with a very simple, easy to follow pricing model. myKP is dedicated to the continued development of Hero and will soon be offering a number of new and exciting initiatives to further enhance your online experience."
myKP will be releasing the full product details, features as well as terms and conditions on Australia Day and we look forward to change.
Hero - No Download Caps
Register your interest here.
UPDATE: More information is now available here, for pricing you can look here. | | |
| Lazy Linux: 10 Essential Tricks for Admins Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 @ 9:52 AM by mayhem | | Anonymous writes "In this article, learn how to be a more productive Linux systems administrator. These 10 essential tricks will lead you on your way to being one powerful Linux systems administrator. Learn about SSH tunnels, VNC, password recovery, console spying, and more. Examples accompany each trick, so you can duplicate them on your own systems." | | |
| CentOS 5.2 Released Posted Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 10:52 AM by mayhem |  The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.2. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:
These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.3, Evolution-2.12, Firefox-3.0, Thunderbird-2.0, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1.
Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.
Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.
Sabayon to simplify the construction of user profiles.
* Links: Distro Release Announcement | LiveCD Release Announcement
* Documentation: CentOS 5
* Screenshots
* Reviews: Linux.com
* Release Notes: CentOS | Upstream | | |
| The Interactive Linux Kernel Map Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 11:11 AM by mayhem |  "The Linux kernel is one of most complex open source projects. Even though there are a lot of books on the Linux kernel, it is still a difficult subject to comprehend. The interactive Linux kernel map gives you a top-down view of the kernel. You can see the most important layers, functionalities, modules, functions, and calls. Each function on the map is a link to its source code. The map is interactive. You can zoom in and drag around to see details." (Source: Slashdot) | | |
| Traffic Squeezer - Open Source WAN Acceleration Solution Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 @ 6:25 AM by mayhem |  Kiran Kankipati writes "Traffic Squeezer is a free Open-Source Linux WAN Network Traffic Accelerator
Traffic Squeezer is free software, developed and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Traffic Squeezer does WAN Acceleration with the technologies such as Traffic Compression, Traffic PDU Coalescing, Protocol Specific Acceleration (ex: TCP Acceleration Mechanisms), Quality of Service, etc.
Refer project website for more details:
http://trafficsqueezer.sourceforge.net" | | |
| Role-based Access Control in SELinux Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 @ 5:53 AM by mayhem |  IBM DeveloperWorks writes "Role-based access control (RBAC) is a general security model that simplifies administration by assigning roles to users and then assigning permissions to those roles. Learn how RBAC in SELinux acts as a layer of abstraction between the user and the underlying TE model, and how the three pieces of an SELinux context (policy, kernel, and userspace) work together to enforce the RBAC and tie Linux users into the TE policy." | | |
| Create Input Forms with Ajax and XML Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 @ 8:44 AM by mayhem | | IdaAshley writes "Augmenting your HTML forms with Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) callbacks to the server is a practical way to add Web 2.0 functionality to your application. Discover a variety of techniques to add Ajax code and enhance the user experience for PHP applications." | | |
| Anatomy of Linux Synchronization Methods Posted Friday, November 9, 2007 @ 9:22 AM by mayhem | | Anonymous writes "In your Linux education, you may have learned about concurrency, critical sections, and locking, but how do you use these concepts within the kernel? This article reviews the locking mechanisms available within the Linux Kernel 2.6, including atomic operators, spinlocks, reader/writer locks, and kernel semaphores. It also explores where each mechanism is most applicable for building safe and efficient kernel code. Also try the Linux Kernal tutorial to learn how to compile, and customize a Linux kernel to suit your needs." | | |
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