GitHub Boxen: Automating Mac OS X Configuration and Management.

Varnish is a standalone HTTP accelerator that provides efficient and powerful web caching mechanisms. In addition to performing web caching, Varnish can also act as a web application firewall WAF and a load balancer, and it can be integrated with any back-end web server. via Varnish improves web performance and security.

Not satisfied with the experience on current forum software packages, Stack Exchange co-founder Jeff Atwood founded Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc to come up with a software package to replace them. via Open source pioneers next generation chat and forums – The H Open: News and Features.

“The technology that we have developed allows us to completely encapsulate an application and its infrastructure so it can run on any cloud,” Navin Thadani, SVP of Products at Ravello told Datamation. Ravello calls its technology a Cloud Application Hypervisor and it is initially being offered in a Software-as-a-Service model. via KVM Founders Build Cloud …

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I’ve uploaded an experimental release of the raid5/6 support to git, in branches named raid56-experimental. This is based on David Woodhouse’s initial implementation (thanks Dave!). via RAID 5/6 code merged into Btrfs [LWN.net].

Byobu (software) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I’ve been reading LinuxToday for as long as I remember, but today when I went to view an article it go the following error. Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error ‘80004005’[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. /LM/W3SVC/1191723603/ROOT/global.asa, line 191 I am in shock, one of the premier Linux …

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LibreOffice 4.0 is now generally available and in my mind, it truly marks the end of OpenOffice.org legacy. via Open Source LibreOffice 4 Debuts – This Isn’t OpenOffice Anymore – InternetNews..

Summarize Anything. Clipped’s patent pending algorithm turns articles and documents into bullet point summaries. via Clipped | Summarize Anything..

5 social networks to watch in 2013 – Blog – Brand Social.