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Earlier on, we discussed how to enable full-text RSS feeds. Now we'll discuss how to improve on that by preventing your full-text feeds from being harvested and posted on blogspammers' sites. The nice thing about this trick is that you can use it to include any sort of text on your RSS feeds, while leaving your site content completely unaffected.
You can let people syndicate your Plone site, searches or collections in full. Here's how.
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 luck because of a grave bug on MobileSafari -- Plone sites are especially slow like molasses on the iPhone. Don't worry, here's a trick that will solve it.
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 referred visitors and gaining a big performance edge.
ZFS-FUSE can deliver enough performance to be usable on Linux, with a new patch.
The best filesystem ever invented is now available on Linux. Here's a short story with instructions to set it up on your computer.
Linux is real, honest-to-God fast. But no amount of raw performance in Linux can alleviate pathologies in applications. Here's a good example of such a pathology, absolutely ruining speed.
A flamefest has erupted between the PackageKit developers and the dpkg developers. All because dpkg has a technical deficiency that needs to be solved right away, yet the dpkg developers refuse to.
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 know, at all times, the status of your latest backup run.
In an effort to better understand how each of the PulseAudio components interact with each other, I’ve done a small diagram that roughly shows how each component connects and interacts:
For the last six months, I’ve been reading article after article spewing the same bovine manure: Look at how many updates Distribution X issued! How can it be more secure than Windows? Let’s bury that stupidity under a ton of facts:
Hang on to your hats, because what I’m about to show you, you just don’t see every day. As a matter of fact, I’m positive you haven’t seen it in your life, and let’s hope you don’t have to.
Windows has Explorer. Mac OS has Finder. GNOME has Nautilus. And KDE had, up to a number of months ago, Konqueror. Now, together with the up-and-coming KDE 4, a simple file manager named Dolphin takes on file management. So how does Dolphin stack up?