From mozillalinks.org A few months ago, I posted how to improve Firefox performance by defragmenting its database files executing SQLite VACUUM command. The only con was that it required a Firefox restart to execute the command. Thanks to Mozilla’s Jeremy Orem, we have now learned it can be done from within Firefox in two short [More]

Ubuntu 9.04 bug with networking directory creation « RimuHosting Blog. I ran ifup and got the following errors root@charon ~ # ifup eth0 ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: No such file or directory … so i checked and /var/run/network did not exist… This link had a bit more technical information. They said look [More]

So you want to use a revision control system and you picked git? Cool . Assuming you are setting a service up from scratch, check out the following… [More]

Canonical and analyst firm RedMonk released findings of a survey sent to thousands of Ubuntu Server users. It was developed with the Ubuntu community and was completed by almost 7,000 respondents. The companies says the survey confirmed that Ubuntu was being widely used in the most common workloads (web, print, file, database and mail servers) [More]

A friend asked me today how I first got into Linux. Which got me thinking, since it’s a bit of a way back in the mists of time, and I couldn’t quite recall . The process started about when Windows XP came out I think. My PC then was a lively 486DX33.  I believe that [More]

What if Linux Distros were Women? | Beige Binary Blog Funny as take on linux alternatives…. [More]