Issue 177 / August 2015
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The Silk Curtain:On May 29, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht received a stern sentence for his involvement with building and operating the world's first global anonymous supermarket for everything. Some were surprised with the severity – life in prison without parole for the 31-year-old "Internet entrepreneur." But the Silk Road led its wayfarers way out beyond the cutting edge, and if you live your life as a pioneer, sometimes you get surprised. (more)Newfound Love: Sensu — A powerful and scalable monitoring solutionWhen the Twitter hashtag #monitoringsucks gained popularity a few years ago, it seemed as though monitoring software had reached its limits and stagnated. Will Sensu launch a new golden age? (more)Home Monitor: Monitor your web-based servers with Linux Dash and CockpitLinux Dash and Cockpit are small-scale solutions for monitoring a cloud-hosted virtual server from home. (more)Change Track: Why users are changing their monitoring solutionMany enterprises use the free Nagios monitoring solution; some would prefer to change to something else. We talked to people who switched to find out how they fared. (more)On the Line: Image editing with command-line toolsPowerful command-line tools offer fast and easy image editing. (more)Cross-Examination: The nitty gritty of Unix rights managementPeople applying for IT jobs should brace themselves for the popular interview question about the sticky bit in Unix operating systems. It certainly pays to know. (more)Snapshot: Back up your systems with Mondo RescueA timely snapshot by Mondo Rescue puts a computer back on its feet after a system failure in just a few minutes. (more)Ask Klaus: Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questionsKlaus addresses problems with Wheezy updates, Adobe Flash, dial-up settings, and mountpoint dates. (more)Begin at the Beginning: The fundamentals of an HPC clusterThe beginning for high-performance computing is understanding what you are trying to achieve, the assumptions you make to get there, and the resulting boundaries and limitations imposed on you and your HPC system. (more)Green Garden: The sys admin's daily grind — PomodoPiCharly starts the tomato and dill season aboveground with a traffic light and underground with a soaker hose, along with assistance from two gardeners and the ubiquitous Raspberry Pi board. (more)Garbage Collector: Clean your filesystem with FSlintFSlint detects the source of filesystem problems and remedies or mitigates them while cleaning up the hard drive. (more)Light and Shadow: Convert RAW data with LightZoneThe RAW format preserves the full splendor of digital image data. You can develop this material into a format for everyday use with LightZone. (more)Typecast: Setting type in LibreOffice WriterLibreOffice Writer is a serviceable desktop publisher with more typography features than most users imagine. (more)Look Inside: Querying the package list with apt-cacheWe take a look at apt-cache, an essential utility for command line-based package management. (more)Pixelized: mtPaint makes painting easyYou can create pixel art in just a few mouse clicks with the paint program mtPaint, and it can even teach your works of art how to walk. (more)World Atlas: Using the Marble mapping toolAlthough Marble might look like a rather bare-bones map application, it has a few tricks up its sleeve that make it a useful mapping tool. (more)Technical Training: Making computer science education more available"maddog" looks at some ways that computer science education can be made available to students of all ages. (more)Zack's Kernel News:Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community. (more) |
Featured Events, sponsored by Linux Magazine/Linux Pro Magazine:USENIX ATC '15 Santa Clara, CA 07/08/2015 to 07/10/2015 International Supercomputing Conference Frankfurt, Germany 07/12/2015 to 07/16/2015 AnDevCon Boston, MA 07/29/2015 to 07/31/2015 USENIX Security '15 Washington, D.C. 08/12/2015 to 08/14/2015 SPTechCon Boston, MA 08/24/2015 to 08/27/2015 Maker Faire Trondheim Trondheim, Norway 08/28/2015 to 08/29/2015 InterDrone Las Vegas, NV 09/09/2015 to 09/11/2015 HostingCon EU Amsterdam, the Netherlands 09/22/2015 to 09/23/2015 See our Event Calendar for a comprehensive list. |
 
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