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The One Laptop Per Childproject was started by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to give computer access to children in developing nations. The organization believes that theirXO laptop can help children with little to no access to rudimentary education learn more effectively. This belief is bolstered by Negroponte's own …

I'm way behind in my feed reader (Google Reader, if you care to know) and it shows. This morning I was poking around in my Gmail settings and noticed a slight change in the tabs across the top. Where we used to have "Forwarding and POP", we now have "Forwarding …

The Fedora Project officially released Fedora 8 today, and the neatest feature is not this animated GIF! You can find a list of the many new features on the Fedora Project Wiki.

Let me take the opportunity to remind you that Fedora represents the cutting-edge in Red Hat-based Linux. Designed …

Red Hat recently released a flood of kernel-related bug fixes. Here's a list of the affected packages:

• cmirror-kernel
• cman-kernel
• dlm-kernel
• gnbd-kernel
• GFS-kernel

If you use any of these packages, make sure you are up to date.

Let me start off by apologizing for what I'm about to do. The following is nothing more than ego stroking.

A little over a week ago, Google began updating the PageRank indicator visible via the Google Toolbar. For those that aren't aware, Google PageRank is the visible "value" of a …

This is just a quick note for you DNS operators out there.

Mark Andrews of ISC has notified the bind-announce mailing list that L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET has changed it's ip address to 199.7.83.42. Mark's suggested method for updating your BIND hints file is as follows:

$ dig ns …

With the release of Fedora 8 on the immediate horizon, Bill Nottingham of the Fedora Project announced the End of Life date for Fedora Core 6 as Friday, December 7, 2007.

As a reminder, the Fedora Project supports a release for a full month following the second successive release. So …

I spent a fair amount of time earlier this week contemplating the fate of the BlogRush widget on Slaptijack. The fact of the matter is that after running the widget for two weeks, I haven't received a single visitor from it. Not only that, I haven't even seen any of …

Quick note.

I recently needed to install a few RubyGems on my Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) development system. I use MacPorts to keep my system consistent, but MacPorts was causing the problem. Here's a look at the output I was getting while trying to install Active Support.

$ sudo …

I was recently helping a developer with some SQL optimizations in Ruby. The developer was using Active Record, and (until now) my Active Record experience has been pretty minimal.

One thing that was really driving me bonkers was how to get Active Record to print out the queries it was …

This is a bit of random oddness I stumbled upon this morning.

I was working on a Cisco Catalyst 2960 switch and needed to know which MAC addresses the device had learned on a particular interface. The usual way to do this is with the show mac-address-table interface command. While …

I've noticed a mysterious new protocol popping up in my protocol lists lately: 19101/TCP. Apparently, this TCP port is used by the Clubbox service. I 'm not fluent in Korean, so I can't really tell you what the site says, but I can tell you what it does!

Clubbox …

What is Local <acronym title="Policy-Based Routing">PBR</acronym>?

Policy-based routing makes routing decisions based on factors other than normal routing protocols. For example, it might be necessary to forward all <acronym title="Session Initiation Protocol">SIP</acronym> packets via a more expensive low-latency link while all other traffic use …

Sometimes I feel I'm a little late to the party.

The Camino Project announced the release of version 1.5.2 of their popular Camino web browser on Friday. The Camino browser is a Mozilla-based web browser designed to integrate smoothly with Mac OS X. It sports a more OS …

The main advantage of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux over something more cutting-edge like Fedora is the length of time Red Hat supports their Enterprise product.

The Fedora Project only supports the current and previous versions of Fedora (formerly Fedora Core). Since Fedora utilizes a six month release cycle, you …