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One thing that is not part of a good REST design is cookies: The “ST” in “REST” stands for “State Transfer”, and indeed, in a good REST design operations are self-contained, and each request carries with it transfers all the information state that the server needs in order to complete it. via Learn REST: A …

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The last few years, many users upload their how-to videos (also known as videorials — like tutorials) in Youtube, showing their Linux desktop and explaining how to do a bunch of stuff. So instead of reading an article or a guide with static images and multiple pages, maybe there is a quick educational video waiting …

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MariaDB has already made its mark in the database ecosystem as a worthy replacement for MySQL, and you can expect its adoption to keep increasing in the future. After all, having a tuple of high-quality open source databases to choose from is not a bad thing. via Replacing MySQL with MariaDB.

CoolShip Android computer in a keyboard is the latest Android-powered computer. But this one is unlike other Android units. It’s not in a USB stick, but in a keyboard with most of the connectivity of a standard desktop or notebook computer. via CoolShip Android all-in-keyboard computer – LinuxBSDos.com.

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].