10 Most Beautiful Plasma Themes for KDE 4 Desktop Tech Source From Bohol: "If you want to further enhance the look of your KDE 4 desktop, I have here a list of some of the most beautiful Plasma themes available:" (Aug 22, 2008)
Linux Today Features
4 Linux Distros Which Look Like Mac OS X Internetling: "Here’s an interesting compilation of Linux distribution which resemble Apple’s Mac OS 10. They might not be identical, but you guys who like Apple’s design might appreciate the fact yu can get something like it, with the nice-on-the-inside GNU/Linux kernel, out-of-the-box." (Aug 20, 2008)
The Enterprise and Open-Source Storage (Jun 27, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (1749 reads)
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(feedback) Storage Soup: "...I've also heard similar withering talk about Sun's open storage in particular, and can only imagine Sun's open-source push is making this topic timely..."
Remote Backups for Linux and BSD (Jun 2, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (3464 reads)
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(feedback) Raiden's Realm: "Backups are an important element of system maintenance on any system, and should be, at least in my opinion, mandatory for all users to perform regularly..."
Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future? (May 31, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (7735 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "My article three weeks ago on Linux file systems set off a firestorm unlike any other I've written in the decade I've been writing on storage and technology issues..."
Online Storage with Wuala (May 27, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (3511 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "At it's most basic level, Wuala is an online storage service. Like other services it aims to allow you to access your files from anywhere, even if your home or office computer is turned off..."
Recover a MySQL Table with Zmanda Recovery Manager (May 13, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (2408 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "If somebody accidentally drops a critical table in MySQL, the application no longer works. The solution to this problem is to utilize the (open source) Zmanda Recovery Manager..."
Linux File Systems: You Get What You Pay For (May 12, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (9023 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Linux file systems have a number of limitations that make them a poor choice for large and high-performance computing environments..."
Geek Sheet: Bare-Metal Backup and Recovery (May 8, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (4532 reads)
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(feedback) Between the Lines: "Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job...?"
Indexing Offline CD-ROM Archives (May 8, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (2354 reads)
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(feedback) Free Software Magazine: "Suppose you've been good (or sort of good anyway), and you have a huge stack of CD-ROMs (or DVDs) with backups and archives of your old files. Great. But how can you find anything...?"
Sun Pushes Open Source Storage (May 3, 2008, 16:00 UTC) (3350 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "The vendor contends that open source technology provides cheaper, more cost-effective storage infrastructures, just as open source efforts in the past led to cheaper server environments..."
Bacula: Backups That Don't Suck (Apr 24, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (4095 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Good systems administrators know that implementing a robust backup procedure is one of their most important duties..."
Gifts of Open Source (Apr 22, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (2168 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxWorld: "Combining 'Open Source' and 'storage' in the same sentence used to trigger a sardonic grin, but no longer. The availability of free and open software is as true today for storage as it is for operating systems and applications..."
Benchmarking Linux Filesystems on Software RAID 1 (Apr 22, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (4612 reads)
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(feedback) Lone Wolves: "A couple of months ago I got a couple of wonderful birthday presents. My lovely geeky girlfriend got me two Western Digital 500 GB SATA 3.0 drives, which were promptly supplemented with a 3ware 9550XS 4-port hardware RAID card..."
Inspecting Disk IO Performance with fio (Apr 10, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (4912 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Storage performance has failed to keep up with that of other major components of computer systems. Hard disks have gotten larger, but their speed has not kept pace with the relative speed improvements in RAM and CPU technology..."
Linux Gains New Architecture Support (Mar 28, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (4968 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxDevices: "Dozens of network-attached storage (NAS) servers and other consumer appliances are about to gain mainline kernel and Debian GNU/Linux support..."
Multipath Storage with Xen and DS4800 (Mar 12, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (2995 reads)
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(feedback) developerWorks: "Virtualization technology was part of the IBM mainframe decades before virtualization gained its current industry adoption..."
Manage a Linux RAID 10 Storage Server (Mar 5, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (5310 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Networking Planet: "Today we'll learn how to monitor, maintain, and make changes in our RAID 10 array. We'll make it bigger, smaller, safely test failure recovery, and set up monitoring and failure notifications..."
Create a Backup Server with Restore (Feb 21, 2008, 13:00 UTC) (4858 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Perhaps the number one reason why people neglect to back up their desktops is the lack of workable solution. It can be difficult to find a method configurable enough to suite everyone's needs..."
CLI Magic: Manage All Your Archives with atool (Feb 6, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (3207 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "The atool package is a collection of Perl scripts that allows you to handle many different archive formats and compression schemes using a single command-line interface..."
Virtually Speaking: FalconStor, Virtual Iron Eye Virtual Storage (Jan 16, 2008, 22:00 UTC) (2565 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: "Virtual Iron strolled further down the path on its virtual storage roadmap this week with the announcement that it was joining forces with FalconStor Software to deliver a number of storage-centric virtualization capabilities...."
Using Camcorder Tapes to Back Up Files (Dec 29, 2007, 09:00 UTC) (5036 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "DV and MiniDV camcorder tapes can be used for more than just storing audio and video recordings. If you have a camcorder and a FireWire connection to your computer, you can also use them to store files..."
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Goes Open Source (Dec 18, 2007, 17:30 UTC) (3344 reads)
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(feedback) internetnews.com: "Although Ethernet is the dominant interconnect for LANs, when it comes to storage and SANs, it lags other technologies, notably Fibre Channel. That's about to change..."
Virtually Speaking: Storage, The New Frontier (Dec 13, 2007, 03:15 UTC) (2724 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: "As thoughts turn to mistletoe and champagne, the virtualization infrastructure vendors delivered holiday cheer in the form of new product releases on Tuesday..."
(How) Has Open Source Data Warehousing Developed? (Nov 29, 2007, 13:00 UTC) (4298 reads)
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(feedback) Intelligent Enterprise: "Given the strengths of open source database management systems (DBMSes), open source seems like a natural platform for data warehousing..."
Samba Isn't Enough For Sun (Nov 26, 2007, 18:15 UTC) (6954 reads)
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(feedback) internetnews.com: "What does it take to have seamless Microsoft Windows file sharing and transfer capabilities on a *nix system? According to Sun Microsystems, it takes more than just Samba..."
Linux Backups For Real People, Part 3 (Nov 15, 2007, 20:30 UTC) (4400 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "Today we're going to create menu icons for launching our backups whenever we darned well feel like it, set up a simple network backup scheme, and create automatic scheduled backups..."
