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Recently, I was tasked with finding files that had been modified in the past 5 days. I was to copy these files from a SAN Snapshot and move them over to a recover area that anyone could get to. We were doing this in Linux because the snapshot, which was a NTFS filesystem would only mount in Linux. It seems that Linux is more forgiving of errors on a hard disk than Windows is when dealing with NTFS.

The Neptune team is proud to announce the release of Neptune 3.2 (Codename 'Brotkasten on Speed'). This release features the Linux kernel 3.10.5 and is exclusively meant to run on 64bit CPUs. The Debian base system was updated to the released version 7.1 wheezy to provide a stable user experience. The KDE Plasma Desktop ships with version 4.10.5.

For those in the market for an Intel Z87 Haswell motherboard, the ECS Z87H3-A2X Extreme is a great candidate and sells for less than $250 while packing a plethora of features and is mostly compatible with Linux.

Conventional wisdom says Apple will have to release a low-end iPhone next month to compete with Android in emerging markets, but since when did Apple ever listen to the howling masses. Apple doesn't need a low-end phone. It needs a killer high-end one.

So I recently did an article titled "Will Gog.com Ever Support Linux On Its Store?", well looks like that may be coming true soon enough folks.

From my perspective, one of the best parts of being a Web developer is the instant gratification. You write some code, and within minutes, it can be used by people around the world, all accessing your server via a Web browser. The rapidity with which you can go from an idea to development to deployment to actual users benefiting from (and reacting to) your work is, in my experience, highly motivating.

Finally Adobe have started to provide the missing links with Adobe Open Source and the pre-release of Adobe Brackets code editor for Ubuntu. The project is still in the early stages of development but provides a tantalizing look at the future of Linux with Adobe on board.

Updated httpd packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Updated xymon package fixes security vulnerability: A security vulnerability has been found in version 4.x of the Xymon Systems & Network Monitor tool.

Wow the awesome news doesn't stop, Tropico 5 the island city builder will come to Linux as stated in their official announcement!

For speeding up the development of KDE Frameworks 5, developers at Blue Systems are near exclusively focusing upon the development of these frameworks for the next three months.

Epoptes is an open source computer lab management and monitoring tool. It allows for screen broadcasting and monitoring, remote command execution, message sending, imposing restrictions like screen locking or sound muting the clients and much more!

Hybrid graphics cards have long and painful history under Linux. Therefore, if you don’t follow the usual channel (your operating system provided) of installing it, you might run into lots of problems because of inconsistencies between Xorg/mesa, graphics vendor drivers and the kernel. In this tutorial, I will talk about different approaches I take while installing the driver.

It turns out that the NSA's domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet.

I like some things about all Linux Desktop Environments. But my favorite is LXDE. For me, it is about customization. I want my desktop my way. And I want it running on a stable distribution. So I was pleased to come across LXLE. Now we are talking. A LXDE desktop with window preview and tiling. Yet, it is easy on resources and very functional. And no compiz! This is LXDE on steroids without any side effects.

Libimobiledevice could be made to overwrite files as the administrator, or access device keys.

Win Enterprises announced a Mini-ITX single board computer based on Intel’s 4th Generation (Haswell) Core i7, i5, and i3 processors, paired with an Intel QM87 chipset. The compact MB-73320 SBC accommodates up to 16GB of DDR3 SDRAM, offers numerous storage, networking, video, audio, USB, and multi-protocol serial interfaces, and expands with both Mini-PCIe modules and standard PCI Express cards.

Gates has been prolific in filing patent applications over the past few years, mostly through a partnership with friends at Intellectual Ventures (IV). That's one of the world's largest patent holding companies, typically described as a patent troll because of its practice of acquiring patents and using them to file lawsuits (notably against Motorola), despite not using the patents to make technology of its own.

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu and Kubuntu users how to install the newly released KDE SC 4.11 on the Ubuntu/Kubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and Ubuntu/Kubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) operating systems.

While working on linux production boxes,some times system admin mistakenly delete LVM partitions. Using the command vgcfgrestore we can recover deleted LVM partitions.