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pfSense: A Router That Stands Up To Traffic
A review of pfSense release 1.2.3, a router and firewall that can shape traffic to help you manage your bandwidth. This BSD distribution has minimal hardware requirements and performs well even on older computers.18-Aug-10 22:27 read more...
Enable Apache Rewrite For Your Wordpress or Modx CMS Site
If your CMS can't produce SEO-friendly URL's, the problem could be your web server. This quick tutorial illustrates how to re-configure Apache2 to allow rewrites by WordPress and other applications.02-Jul-10 10:55 read more...
Social Media and the Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds has plenty of ideas relevant to social networking's future. For the internet to facilitate group decisions, it needs a way of aggregating knowledge, not just votes.30-Jun-10 08:26 read more...
Firefly: A Music Server For Mixed Marriages
Firefly is a lightweight music server. It uses the DAAP protocol, allowing others to access it from iTunes or Rhythmbox. Here's how to install it in minutes and begin streaming songs to any computer in your home.12-Jun-10 12:40 read more...
You Are Not a Gadget
Jaron Lanier's book may sound like the growing backlash of articles about the dangers of internet dependency. However, it's a call for us to demand more from technology rather than a signal for retreat.11-Jun-10 12:37 read more...
Installing a Local DNS Server Behind a Hardware Router
This tutorial shows how to install a local domain name server (DNS) that doesn't conflict with your hardware router. It covers how to configure the bind nameserver for a typical home LAN and how to change your router to supply static DNS settings to your computers. A local DNS server enables you to connect to other computers on your subnet by name.25-May-10 15:12 read more...
The Long Tail Revisited
How well do the predictions in Chris Anderson's 2006 blockbuster book stand up in 2010? Very well, if you're talking about retail products; but emerging trends in social media, video, and software services are beyond its scope. Here's a hindsight look at hits and misses from the work that brought the demand curve to internet marketing.06-May-10 11:13 read more...
Rework: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Growing
Rework, a new book by the founders of 37signals, is as much a manifesto as a business guide. The authors advise keeping your company, processes, and products as small as possible. This article is a review of the audiobook edition.16-Mar-10 15:25 read more...
JIRA Part 1: Installation with Postgresql
JIRA is a mature issue tracker with advanced workflow features, and costing as little as $10. Here's how to install JIRA in Debian with Java, Postgresql, and JDBC.07-Mar-10 17:20 read more...
Five Lean Linux Distributions
There are lesser-known distros that can run in as little as 256mb of RAM. If you've tried, say, Xubuntu and found it too sluggish, these candidates are worth exploring.24-Feb-10 15:49 read more...
Virtualbox as a Remote Desktop Server
This tutorial shows you how to configure VirtualBox in Ubuntu Linux to serve Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), and how to access your VM with rdesktop. Using RDP, you can turn a spare computer on your network into a graphic terminal, with access any operating system you can install in VirtualBox.14-Feb-10 22:14 read more...
Tracks: a To Do List for Getting Things Done
Tracks is a Ruby on Rails application that takes the Getting Things Done concepts seriously. Tracks helps you cut through the clutter of most to-do lists by showing you only what's relevant today.13-Feb-10 16:26 read more...
Dokuwiki Tutorial Part 2: Navigation and Appearance
This article will show you how to improve the look and feel of Dokuwiki by using a new template and creating multi-level navigation. Instead of drilling down one hyperlink at a time, the wiki will have folders that expand and collapse similar to a file explorer.01-Feb-10 10:20 read more...
Dokuwiki Tutorial Part 1: Install and First Pages
This how-to will help you get started with Dokuwiki on your web server. We'll install it and perform basic page editing.16-Jan-10 01:56 read more...
Pandora and LastFM From a Terminal Window
Pandora and LastFM are a couple of excellent Linux clients for music services. They don't require a GUI or web browser. This tutorial shows you how to install and configure them.16-Jan-10 01:20 read more...
Dokuwiki: Small Footprint, Big Features
Dokuwiki is the perfect wiki for an intranet or small team. It does most all the things you need, it's easier to maintain than Mediawiki and it doesn't use a SQL database.12-Jan-10 00:02 read more...
Ruby for Rubes: Riding Rails With Bitnami stacks
Bitnami provides the equivalent of a LAMP stack for Ruby on Rails. You can have a working Ruby server in minutes, without the pain of installing all the components separately.02-Aug-09 23:14 read more...
Proxmox VE: Efficient Virtualization
Proxmox VE puts a Debian customized OpenVZ system on your drive and a nice web console to manage it. OpenVZ uses less CPU and memory than other virtualization techniques.02-Aug-09 23:00 read more...
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