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OpenStack is software anyone can use to build their own version of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, the massively popular web service that gives developers and businesses instant access to virtual servers. The roots of OpenStack stretch back only about four years to a skunk works project inside of NASA via The Secret History of OpenStack, …

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There’s a lot of talk about dongles recently. Square has always relied on a dongle and now PayPal is sporting a fancy triangle-shaped dongle, nicknamed the ‘Blue Dorito’. via Bitcoin Doesn’t Need a Dongle – Forbes.

In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Squeeze server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix …

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Using ATA Over Ethernet AoE On Debian Squeeze Initiator And Target | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials.

A Fast and Secure Web Proxy for Corporate Users | Wazi.

Interpreted Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby Sheet One – Hyperpolyglot.

Introducing Warp – An Open-Source Theme Framework for WordPress & Joomla.

TrueCrypt – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Vulnerability Discovered: GuardianEdge AKA Symantec Endpoint Encryption | InfoSec Wreck.