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Visual diff Utilities on Linux

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Administrator

The diff utility is widely used by programmers on linux for comparing file changes, but there are some handy, lesser-known comparison utilities that are more visual and still included for free with linux distros and Mac OS X: sdiff is … Continue reading →

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Some ZFS News

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Administrator

Phoronix has a really well-written article on ZFS, including news on a company planning to release a CDDL-licensed linux kernel module. ZFS is the holy grail of filesystems. Many Database Administrators have switched from Linux to Solaris because ZFS has … Continue reading →

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O’Reilly Open Source Conference 2010, Portland

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Administrator

Once again, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held in Portland, Oregon. It was a good conference, and we had beautiful weather all week long. Executive Summary The themes promoted by the conference organizers were Cloud Computing, NoSQL, Emerging … Continue reading →

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SVLUG Meeting: Not Your Father’s Assembly Language with Randall Hyde

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Administrator

At Silicon Valley Linux Users Group tonite, Randall Hyde talked a bout a more modern implementation of assembly language, HLA – the High Level Assembler. He talked about his career as a programmer, college lecturer at UC Riverside, computer book … Continue reading →

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ClusterIt dtop Command Ported to Linux

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Administrator

The light-weight ClusterIt toolkit mostly worked on linux, but dtop (distributed top) still expected BSD-style top syntax. Here’s a diff I wrote to make dtop work on recent versions of Linux (tested on CentOS 5.5 x86_64): $ diff dtop.org.c dtop.c … Continue reading →

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