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Woopra Review - Real-Time Web Analytics

While I am in a stage of moving my blog to hosting on my own worpdress.org engine, as it is currently hosted on wordpress.com, I am looking out there for ways to add more functionality with new upcoming theme, as well tools that will help me to administer and track different feedbacks and statistics.

One of [...]

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Nagios - Host And Service Monitoring Tool

Nagios is a popular host and service monitoring tool used by many administrators to keep an eye on their systems. It watches hosts across the local area network (LAN) and/or across the Internet, services that you can specify, alerting you when things go bad.
Nagios is included in several OS distributions and security packages. As of [...]

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Abyss Web Server - Like Apache but lighter!

If you need to set up a secure, easily configurable Web server in as short a time as possible, then Abyss Web Server might just be the product for you. In development since 2002, its current version (2.5) runs on Linux, BSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. Its simple installation and setup (no obscure text [...]

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Настройка DB2 Enterprise 9 на виртуальной машине Linux при помощи VMware ESX Server

Причины необходимости настройки DB2 9 на виртуальной машине могут быть различны. Например, потребуется объединить серверы для полного использования оборудования, уже купленного компанией. Или, возможно, при настройке среды тестирования потребуется полностью изолировать производственную среду. Или же вам требуется протестировать старые приложения на новых операционных системах.

В таких ситуациях данная статья может оказаться полезным справочным пособием. Здесь будет [...]

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LAMP Tutorials for Newbies

Most of the tutorials on LAMP is mostly targetted towards programmers which assumes a level of knowledge that
most beginners don’t have. So inpics.net have created these 3 tutorials to help newbies get up to speed on the basics.

MySQL Basics
PHP Basics
Perl Basics

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Tuning LAMP Systems

Applications using the LAMP (Linux®, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) architecture are constantly being developed and deployed. But often the server administrator has little control over the application itself because it’s written [...]

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Linux versus Windows: OS impact on Uptime and Speed

There are many factors which affect Website availability and performance from end user perspective, namely ISP Internet connection, server location, server parameters, programming language, application architecture and implementation. One of the critical parameters is a selected Operational System (OS). Most users often need to select between Linux and Windows, two popular choices for web servers. [...]

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The Open Source Security Motherload: 105 Tools, Applications and Resources

Open source security is like a military general who shows his plans to both his allies and his enemies. On the one hand, his enemies can try to exploit the plan by targeting its weaknesses. But on the other hand, by exposing his tactics to those who want to help, the plan is ultimately much [...]

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X.Org 7.2: ATI Open v. Closed Drivers

Last October we had compared the performance of the open-source R300 display driver against the closed-source fglrx driver for ATI Radeon graphics cards. In that comparison a Mobility Radeon X300 was used with X.Org 7.1, but we have decided to take another look at this driver comparison under X.Org 7.2. In this last comparison, the [...]

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XAMPP - All in one web server Installation and Configuration in Debian

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.
The distribution for Linux systems (tested for SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake and Debian) contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP & PEAR, Perl,ProFTPD, phpMyAdmin, OpenSSL, GD, Freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, gdbm, zlib, [...]

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