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This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database. This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 12.10.

Continuing our series of posts concerning the Republican Study Committee report on the problems of the copyright system and how to fix them (which it quickly retracted under industry pressure), today we're going to explore the second "myth" that author Derek Khanna helped debunk: that "copyright is free market capitalism at work." We've already covered the first myth, about the purpose of copyright, as well as responded to various responses to the report by copyright maximalists.

MariaDB, the MySQL fork database management system, is throwing down the gauntlet to Oracle by forming a foundation to promote its alternative DBMS software.

It's out! Slacko is one of our flagship puppies, built with the latest Woof from Slackware 14.0 binary packages. It is all-puppy right through, with the advantage of binary compatibility with Slackware 14.0 and access to the Slackware package repositories. Changes: significant improvements in using the Aufs layered file system; improved automatic detection and configuration of analog and 3G modems; Samba printing issues resolved; the X.Org wizard has improved detection and configuration options.

While an open industry standard, the leading open-source compilers still lack support for the OpenACC parallel programming standard...

The telecommunications standards arm of the U.N. has quietly endorsed the standardization of technologies that could give governments and companies the ability to sift through all of an Internet user’s traffic – including emails, banking transactions, and voice calls – without adequate privacy safeguards. The move suggests that some governments hope for a world where even encrypted communications may not be safe from prying eyes. At the core of this development is the adoption of a proposed international standard that outlines requirements for a technology known as "Deep Packet Inspection" (DPI). As we’ve noted several times before, depending on how it is used, DPI has the potential to be extremely privacy-invasive, to defy user expectations, and to facilitate wiretapping.

I call df, or disk free, the misunderstood command because new Linux users often expect it to tell the sizes of directories and files. But it doesn't do that-- it's for displaying useful information on filesystems. When you invoke it with no arguments, it shows free and used space on all mounted filesystems, their partitions, and mountpoints:

Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsToday KDE released the second beta for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. Thanks to the feedback from the first beta, KDE already improved the quality noticably. Further polishing new and old functionality will lead to a rock-stable, fast and beautiful release in January, 2013. One outstanding freeze is the artwork freeze, which is planned to bring an updated look to Plasma workspaces.

A new MariaDB Foundation is being created in the US with a million euros already pledged by sponsors. The Foundation will take over the development and release process of new versions of MariaDB

The Raspberry Pi might be cheap and efficient, but it's pretty slow. These new ODROID boards will bring serious firepower to the embedded ARM world.

EMC and VMware have made the rumoured reorganisation of the companies official with the announcement of the Pivotal Initiative, a new company which will focus on the cloud and big data analytics and include SpringSource, Gemfire and Cloud Foundry

One week after NVIDIA published 2D open-source driver code for their Tegra 2 ARM SoCs, which is applied to the Tegra DRM driver that will premiere with the Linux 3.8 kernel, code has now emerged for supporting the NVIDIA Tegra driver within the libdrm component...

A sneak peek of Fedora 18, including a gallery of images.

It's all in the fine print Feature I'm not a very good liar, I haven't got the memory for it, which is why it always pricks my conscience whenever I tick the yes box to the prompt "I have read and understood…" when installing software. I am, of course, fibbing. I never read a word. In fact, even though we all tick yes to these agreements every day, unless you're a legal bod, I doubt you could find anyone you know who could quote a single line from any of them.…

Which gadget from our Gift Guide are you most likely to give? Raspberry Pi Arduino MaKey MaKey BeagleBone Ice Tube Clock SparkFun Inventor's Kit i-Racer NanoNote Flora MintyBoost Other (tell us in the comments!) It's getting really close to the holidays. Hopefully you've seen our gift guide and giveaway, and we'd love to know which gadgets you're most excited about.

Top app earners carve up $60m pie Apple's App Store and the Google Play store each claim to offer over 700,000 apps to choose from, but only a tiny fraction of them bring in significant revenue for their developers, according to research from analyst firm Canalys.…

The hacker Kingcope, has demonstrated how to more efficiently brute force passwords on the MySQL database and all it takes is an unprivileged login for the database

If the iPad is indeed delivering 98% of the tablets' web traffic, then Google Android's open source business model has failed. By making Android open source, Google has not gotten the traffic from Android devices in return.

After almost eight years, the developer of the PHP Gift Registry web application has finally responded to a notice regarding a serious security vulnerability. Apparently, the problem has now been fixed

Potification platform indie game trailer released