Why You'll Buy a Netbook On Black Friday Datamation: "Last year I told you the "10 Black Friday Secrets Retailers Don't Want You To Know." All these secrets still apply (and the retailers still don't want you to know them). What's different this year is that Black Friday will be dominated by netbook deals." (Nov 15, 2008)
Linux Today Features
KDE 4.2 is Flat Out Going to Rock moving parts of the kasper clan: "I've been running OpenSUSE 11 for a couple of months now, and thanks to the awesome nightly/weekly KDE 4.2/trunk packages, I'm thoroughly enjoying pretty-darned-bleeding-edge 4.2/trunk packages, but with half the carbs, and I am loving what I'm seeing!" (Nov 12, 2008)
Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB (Nov 13, 2008, 09:03 UTC) (990 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "In this article we are looking at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB under Ubuntu Linux."
Using LinuxDefender Live to Rescue Your Windows NTFS Drive (Sep 24, 2008, 14:02 UTC) (2568 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Did I actually mention Windows and NTFS in the title of this post? It's a good thing I managed to squeeze a little Linux in there or I'd commit myself to the nearest convalescent home immediately."
The Enterprise and Open-Source Storage (Jun 27, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (2737 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) (4495 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) (9063 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) (4414 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) (3457 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) (10274 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) (5949 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) (3169 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) (4366 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) (5389 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) (2974 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) (6075 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) (6066 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) (5815 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) (4320 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) (6624 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) (6104 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) (4132 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) (3078 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) (6246 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) (4200 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) (3338 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) (5503 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..."
