The Daily Kebab
The ramblings of a technomuse
PRADO is a component-based and event-driven Web programming framework
Jun 10th
PRADO is a component-based and event-driven Web programming framework for PHP 5. A PRADO component represents a combination of a PHP class, an HTML template and a specification file in XML. PRADO components are combined to form larger components or form complete PRADO pages.
Ceph: A Linux petabyte-scale distributed file system
May 11th
Linux® continues to invade the scalable computing space and, in particular, the scalable storage space. A recent addition to Linux’s impressive selection of file systems is Ceph, a distributed file system that incorporates replication and fault tolerance while maintaining POSIX compatibility. Explore the architecture of Ceph and learn how it provides fault tolerance and simplifies the management of massive amounts of data.
How to remove Mono from Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx [Updated] | The Open Sourcerer
May 6th
To remove Mono from your shiny new desktop installation of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx enter the following command (after taking the usual precautions like backups of your data etc):
sudo apt-get purge libmono* libgdiplus cli-common libglitz-glx1 libglitz1
Why Our Civilization’s Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA
May 5th
We’ve all heard how the h.264 is rolled over on patents and royalties. Even with these facts, I kept supporting the best-performing “delivery” codec in the market, which is h.264. “Let the best win”, I kept thinking. But it wasn’t until very recently when I was made aware that the problem is way deeper. No, my friends. It’s not just a matter of just “picking Theora” to export a video to Youtube and be clear of any litigation. MPEG-LA’s trick runs way deeper! The [street-smart] people at MPEG-LA have made sure that from the moment we use a camera or camcorder to shoot an mpeg2 (e.g. HDV cams) or h.264 video (e.g. digicams, HD dSLRs, AVCHD cams), we owe them royalties, even if the final video distributed was not encoded using their codecs! Let me show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
read more @ OSNews
VisualVM
May 5th
VisualVM is a tool to monitor and troubleshoot Java applications. It runs on Sun JDK 6, but is able to monitor applications running on JDK 1.4 and higher. It utilizes various available technologies like jvmstat, JMX, the Serviceability Agent (SA), and the Attach API to get the data and automatically uses the fastest and most lightweight technology to impose minimal overhead on monitored applications.
GFS-GNBD-RAID
Apr 6th