| Traffic Squeezer - Open Source WAN Acceleration Solution Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 @ 5:25 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 @ 4:53 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 @ 7:44 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 @ 8:22 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." | | |
| Are You Ready for Logical Volume Management? Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 @ 6:47 AM by mayhem | | IdaAshley writes "Volume management is not new to systems such as AIX and UNIX, and logical volume management (LVM) has been around since Linux kernel 2.4v1 and 2.6.9v2. This article reveals the most useful features of the LVM2 tool, such as how to build and manage volumes, snapshot a backup, and ways to simplify your system administration tasks." | | |
| Use PHP to Create XForms Part 1 Posted Friday, September 7, 2007 @ 11:23 PM by mayhem |  LinucksGirl writes "This two-part article series is designed to get PHP developers up to speed in leveraging Web 2.0 XForms forms for their PHP forms development. In Part 1, developers will create the XForms library using PHP, allowing each function to take in parameters and output XForm elements." | | |
| Python Attributes and Methods Posted Sunday, September 2, 2007 @ 8:26 PM by mayhem | | idaashley writes "In this series of two articles, learn about non-obvious features and misfeatures that have been added to the last several Python versions, with the goal of helping part-time Python programmers uncover the gems while avoiding the pitfalls. This installment adds attributes and methods, descriptors, and properties to the discussion, while the first article covers sequences and comparisons. " | | |
| Set up a Web Server Cluster in 5 Easy Steps Posted Sunday, September 2, 2007 @ 8:24 PM by mayhem |  LinucksGirl writes "Get up and running with the Linux Virtual Server and Linux-HA.org's Heartbeat. Construct a highly available Apache Web server cluster that spans multiple physical or virtual Linux servers in 5 easy steps with Linux Virtual Server and Heartbeat v2." | | |
| Make Life Easy with XML Schema Standard Type Library Posted Saturday, August 4, 2007 @ 4:57 AM by mayhem | | Idaashley writes "XML validation enables you to create complex rules that define acceptable data. But they're no good to anybody unless you use them. In this tip, you learn to use the XML Schema Standard Type Library to simplify the process of requiring formatted data such as e-mail addresses and telephone numbers." | | |
| Control the Duration of Scheduled Jobs in Linux Posted Friday, August 3, 2007 @ 8:44 AM by mayhem | | LinucksGirl writes "Say you need to debug a pesky problem by running some traces for 30 minutes at midnight, or you would just like to use your Linux system as an alarm clock. This tip helps you stop jobs, such as those started with the cron and at capabilities, after the jobs have run for a certain time, or when some other criteria are met." | | |
| Combine the Powers of UNIX and Linux Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 8:49 AM by mayhem | | LinucksGirl writes "Although UNIX and Linux are similar, their differences can complicate the process of integrating the two systems. Examine how to use NIS and NFS to share core databases and file systems between Linux and UNIX, both with direct links and through the automounter. Sharing authentication information enables you to provide a single sign-on (SSO) functionality to any of the servers in your network." | | |
| Linux Tip: Job Scheduling with Cron and At Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 8:49 AM by mayhem | | LinucksGirl writes "You need to run a job at midnight, daily, or weekly, but you would rather be sleeping, or enjoying life some other way. This tip helps you use the cron and at capabilities to schedule jobs periodically or at a single future time, so you can sit back and let routine tasks happen automatically and consistently while you enjoy life." | | |
| Executing Signed Binaries in Linux Kernel Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 @ 5:31 AM by mayhem | | LinucksGirl writes "This tutorial is the second in a two-part series on locking your Linux machines down to streamline the associated support and administration processes. In Part 2 learn how to configure the Linux kernel to execute only signed binaries. In Part 1 you learned how to remove the interpreters from the installation base system to prevent spurious user changes." | | |
| Slackware 12.0 is released! Posted Saturday, July 14, 2007 @ 11:12 AM by mayhem |  That's right, the first 2.6(.21.5) based Slackware release is ready for download! We think you'll enjoy the latest kernel, KDE 3.5.7, XFce 4.4.1, HAL automounting for desktop users, an updated toolchain, and many other enhancements. The official announcement has more details. Also, consider supporting the project at http://store.slackware.com. Thanks to everyone who contributed improvements and fixes this time -- a lot of help made this a relatively smooth release.
Get Slackware from here. | | |
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