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Are you infected with Conficker? My machines can handle the DDoS that Conficker inflicted on the original eye chart's site. See if you're infected here.

Otherwise known as the slash-ended problem.

Plone Documentation Center has been having some issues with Plone 3.1 and above. Here is the fix.

I have the fix.

The latest release of Plone just hit the shelves, and we're right on track delivering the RPM releases for your CentOS and Fedora.

Those two Plone products seem to never get along. Here's a hot fix for Plone 3.0.x users that will make the excellent qSEOptimizer by QuintaGroup work just fine along with Plone Documentation Center (PHC) and Plone Software Center (PSC).

Plone is pretty secure by default. Unfortunately, as an administrator, having to log in each time you restart your browser is extremely annoying. Here's how to bypass that.

A small trick that will help you when you need a file that is multi-gigabytes in size, but you don't have hours to wait for it to be written to disk.

ZFS is the best filesystem ever invented. And FUSE brings it to Linux. There are, however, some caveats you need to keep in mind if you want to start it properly.

Now you can convert your videos in Linux, in the easiest and most straightforward way.

I've written a small application to create bootable, multi-purpose USB drives out of Ubuntu images.

Got a thumb USB drive or an SD card, and you'd like to put Linux on it? Did the other HOWTOs fail you? This is the real deal, through and through. This trick also works out-of-the-box with Kubuntu and other Ubuntu variants as well. Moreover, you can adapt it with very few changes to any other live CD Linux distributions out there.

Do you have a Realtek card driven by the r8169 driver, and you're experiencing SSH, SSL or rsync errors associated to the error message "Disconnected: Corrupted MAC on input"? Do you download large files only to find them corrupted? Here's the solution.

After fixing your video card issues, you can enjoy the full range of desktop effects available with Compiz and KWin in KDE 4.1 and above.

The latest iterations of popular Linux distros Fedora and Ubuntu include PulseAudio. Make sure you learn about it!

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.

This is what my bash history file contains.

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.