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How marbles are made
Remember playing with marbles when you were a kid? Well, here's how marbles are made, both the small ones and the big ones.
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How to really speed up Web serving (and Plone) for your iPhone readers
Web servers (especially Plone, by default) work wonders in combination with an HTTP accelerator such as Varnish or Squid. But your iPhone readers are out of ...
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Using Varnish to capitalize on image hotlinkers and retain referred visitors
Hotlinkers suck your bandwidth dry, but referrals are valuable to you. Learn how to use Varnish to stop image hotlinkers while at the same time welcoming ...
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Making sub-sites out of Plone folders or containers
For when you need to divest a portion of your site into an altogether separate site.
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ZFS on Linux: my story and HOWTO you can have it too
The best filesystem ever invented is now available on Linux. Here's a short story with instructions to set it up on your computer.
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Monitoring Dirvish backup servers using Nagios
Dirvish is an excellent disk-based rotating backup application. Nagios is a fabulous service monitor. Combine the two using this Nagios plugin and you will ...
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A primer into software package management using RPM
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How to automate torrent downloads using TorrentFlux-b4rt, cron and rsync
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Memo from Freesoftwareburg: How to effectively address the free software community
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Tales from responsivenessland: why Linux feels slow, and how to fix that
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