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LWM Editors Move House
After some heavy negotiations, discussions and a lot of thinking the majority of the old LinuxWorld team will be doing some work with a new organization in the form of Brian Profitt at LinuxToday/LinuxPlanet. These sites are run by the same people…
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Kyle Rankin, Knoppix Hacks
Knoppix is not just another Linux distribution. Unlike many Linux alternatives, Knoppix doesn???t need to be installed; everything runs from a CD (called a ???Live CD??? distribution). While Live CDs aren???t unique to Knoppix, it is the way the Knoppix C…
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Annoyances 101
The one thnig I hate about buying computer equipment is the timing…you can guarantee that the moment you buy something, a newer, better, and probably cheaper model will be released the day after. For me, it’s today. According to InfoWorld Seagat…
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New Book Review Blog
I have a new blog totally dedicated to hosting book reviews and interviews. It takes the place of the books blog I had at LinuxWorld, which is obviously now defunct. The new site, The Writers Perspective will host all the reviews and interviews th…
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David Sklar, Essential PHP Tools: Modules, Extensions, and Accelerators
PHP is a popular web development/deployment platform and you can get even more out of the platform by using the extensions and tools available on the web to extend PHP???s capabilities. I talk to David Sklar, author of Essential PHP, about his new b…
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Tony Mobily, Hardening Apache
It is the administration task we love to hate: securing a website. Apache forms the backbone of most websites so it makes sense to start there. In Hardening Apache, Tony Mobily does just that, starting with the basics of creating of a secure Apach…
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Matthias Warkus, The Official GNOME 2 Developer’s Guide
Install Linux and the chances are you???ll be given the choice between a GNOME or KDE desktop. GNOME is the better known of the two, but if you want to development applications that use the GNOME environment where do you start? Well a good place wou…
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Knoppix Hacks
Knoppix is not just another Linux distribution. Unlike many Linux alternatives, Knoppix doesn???t need to be installed; everything runs from a CD (called a ???Live CD??? distribution). While Live CDs aren???t unique to Knoppix, it is the way the Knoppix C…
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EclipseWorld Classes
I’m going to be running a few classes on developing and debugging Perl and Python applications using Eclipse at the EclipseWorld conference being held in New York, August 29th-31st, at the Roosevelt Hotel. The class programme is available for Tues…
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Resigning from LinuxWorld Magazine
If you have completely and utterly missed all the fuss over the last week, then you won’t know about the problems at LinuxWorld and more specifically Sys-Con regarding the publishing (and endorsing) of an a particular article. I wont link to it, f…