Is it possble to un-install a rootkit?

A small article on rootkit. Interesting.

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Linux on the iPhone

Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch.

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10 mistakes new Linux administrators make

If you’re new to Linux, a few common mistakes are likely to get you into trouble. Learn about them up front so you can avoid major problems as you become increasingly Linux-savvy.

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Blackfin Linux Docs

This page provides various links to brief introductory material that should be understood before entering the world of uClinux on the Blackfin processor.

Sample SPI DMA Driver

A small article on an SPI DMA driver. This driver creates a char device to access a AD7476A ADC ( Analog to Digital Converter ) attached to the SPI controller.

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How To Install And Configure Cherokee Web Server With PHP 5 And MySQL 5 Support On Ubuntu 8.10 Server

This tutorial shows how to install Cherokee from source with PHP and MySQL support on a Ubuntu 8.10 server machine.

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Running Windows Programs On Ubuntu 8.10 With CrossOver Linux Pro 7.1.0

This guide shows how you can use CrossOver Linux Pro 7.1.0 to run Windows applications on Ubuntu 8.10. CrossOver is based on Wine.

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Samba + Clamd + Samba-Vscan On CentOS 5.2

This is a howto on getting samba + clamav + samba-vscan to work on a CentOS 5.2 system.

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Legal Risks of Open Source - GPL/Linux Loadable Kernel Modules

Loadable Kernel Modules are user written software which tightly binds with the operating system kernel and runs in the same address space as the kernel. This requires calls to the kernel using specially defined kernel functions.

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How the Linux Kernel Manages Virtual Memory

Virtual memory is one of the most important, and accordingly confusing, pieces of an operating system. Understanding the basics of virtual memory is required to understand operating system performance. Beyond the basics, a deeper understanding allows a system administrator to interpret system profiling tools better, leading to quicker troubleshooting and better decisions.

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Place Windows Kernel into RAM

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\DisablePagingExecutive to 1 to disable paging and have thekernel run in RAM (set the value to 0 to undo this hack).

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Plan 9 is most notable for representing all system interfaces, including those required for networking and the user-interface, through the filesystem rather than specialized interfaces.

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Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS

Windows Server 2008 is the best OS to be released till date from Microsoft's stable. This article shows how to use Windows server 2008 as a workstation OS. Also you may get a handful tips on managing windows server 2008.

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Next-generation USB revealed

USB 3.0 has arrived, or at least the specification that allows the technology to start being built into devices. Offering data-transfer speeds up to 4.8 gigabits per second - that’s 10 times the USB 2.0 speeds - USB 3.0 is also expected to offer better power efficiency.

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Windows 7

A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801)

Setting Up Master-Master Replication On Four Nodes With MySQL 5 On Debian Etch

This tutorial explains how you can set up MySQL master-master replication on four MySQL nodes (running on Debian Etch).

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How To Install VMware Server 2 On A Mandriva 2009.0 Desktop

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on a Mandriva 2009.0 desktop system.

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Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 8.10 server.

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Hardening The Linux Kernel With Grsecurity (Debian)

Security is based on three characteristics: prevention, protection and detection. Grsecurity is a patch for Linux kernel that allows you to increase each of these points

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The Linux Foundation Video Gallery | Linux Foundation Events

The Linux Foundation has published a series of video interviews from the annual Linux Kernel Summit held Sept. 15-16 in Portland, Oregon. In the videos, 16 developers — including Linux creator Linus Torvalds (shown at left) — discuss their development activities.

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Zero Copy I: User-Mode Perspective

Explaining what is zero-copy functionality for Linux, why it's useful and where it needs work.

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Efficient data transfer through zero copy

This article explains how you can improve the performance of I/O-intensive Java™ applications running on Linux® and UNIX® platforms through a technique called zero copy. Zero copy lets you avoid redundant data copies between intermediate buffers and reduces the number of context switches between user space and kernel space.

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How To Back Up An Ubuntu 8.10 System With SystemImager

SystemImager lets you create images of your Linux installations.

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dmidecode: Finding Out Hardware Details Without Opening The Computer Case

dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format.

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Gettext For Static Websites

Hot to on translation management system for a static website, using GNU gettext.

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Remote buffer overflow bug bites Linux Kernel

A remote buffer overflow vulnerability in the Linux Kernel could be exploited by attackers to execute code or cripple affected systems, according to a Gentoo bug report that just became public.

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Windows Vista : Dynamic Kernel Address Space

Windows Vista and the applications that run on it have bumped their heads on the address space limits of 32-bit processors.

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Userspace drivers in the new Linux kernel

New versions of the Linux kernel will support a special userspace driver
model, but some technical pitfalls might limit the use of this interesting
new feature.
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Using IPv6 On Debian Etch

This document describes how you can configure a Debian Etch system for IPv6 so that a) it can connect to other IPv6 hosts and b) other IPv6 hosts can connect to it.

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Capture Sound With Audacity On CentOS 5.x

There are times when you need to save sounds playing over the web. This tutorial shows you how you can use Audacity to capture sound on CentOS 5.x.

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Wayland: A New X Server For Linux

Red Hat's Kristian Høgsberg has started a new project, which is currently known as Wayland, and is just that: a new lightweight X Server.

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Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup

AutoMySQLBackup is a shell script that lets you take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump

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How To Install VMware Server 2 On A Fedora 9 Desktop

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on a Fedora 9 desktop system.

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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) desktop

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