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VirtualBox

derek — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:57:04 GMT

Better than Virtual PC for Linux guests. Specifically, a more reliable network "device".

Free Diff Tool: SourceGear DiffMerge

derek — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:41:28 GMT

For the visual Diff/Merge crowd.

Quoted: In the midst of the new products we have just released there is one item which deserves to have a brighter light shown on it: SourceGear DiffMerge is our new application for comparing files and directories. And it's FREE!!!

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openswitch: A Beautiful Dock For Ubuntu

derek — Fri, 04 May 2007 06:47:36 GMT

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YouTube - linux lowfat software for picture 3D XGL

derek — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:55:45 GMT

Nice, gonna have to check this out.

Quoted: linux lowfat software for picture 3D xgl

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dmiessler.com | study | lsof

derek — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:41:02 GMT

Quoted: lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that's just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application. The tool is aptly called lsof because it "lists open files". And remember, in Unix just about everything (including a network socket) is a file.

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UNIX® Load Average Part 1: How It Works

derek — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:45:18 GMT

Quoted: Explore the use of averages in performance analysis and capacity planning to understand how the load average can be reorganized to do better capacity planning.

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Linux General - Free books

derek — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:50:08 GMT

Free Linux e-books.

Quoted: Home of the highest quality Linux General books all of which are available for free download.

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Mono-based device wins Best-of-Show at CES - Miguel de Icaza

derek — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:27:41 GMT

Nice -- didn't realize Mono on embedded was even happening ... very cool.

Quoted: The Sansa Connect is running Linux as its operating system, and the whole application stack is built on Mono, running on an ARM processor.

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GParted -- LiveCD

derek — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:27:31 GMT

Resize disk partitions (including NTFS) without buying expensive software (like Partition Magic). Just burn this to a "live CD" and reboot. Worked like a charm for me shrinking an NTFS partition.

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Slashdot | MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux

derek — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:59:47 GMT

Somewhat strange ... obviously it's still packaged and runs, they just won't support it.

Quoted: MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux -- article related to Databases, Debian, and Linux.

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