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How To Get Ubuntu System Facts With Facter

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How To Get Ubuntu System Facts With Facter

Facter is a cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from
operating systems. It supports multiple resolution mechanisms, any of
which can be restricted to working only on certain operating systems or
environments. Facter is especially useful for retrieving things like
operating system names, IP addresses, MAC addresses, and SSH keys. It
is easy to extend Facter to include your own custom facts or to include
additional mechanisms for retrieving facts.

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Howto Install Phatch cross-platform GUI Photo Batch Processor

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Debian Linux cluster beats supercomputer in tsunami warnings

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The Philippine government’s official weather service, PAGASA, has replaced its SGI supercomputer with a clustered Debian Linux system that can process information vital to protection against typhoons, floods, droughts, tsunamis and other wild weather conditions at a fraction of the cost.

Misc development news (#5)

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These news items covers Debian Documentation Project switched to SVN, Machine-interpretable debian/copyright, WNPP status changes sent to PTS subscribers and more.

Bits from the Lintian maintainers

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Lintian has been under fairly active development for the past couple of
years. We’ve been averaging a “large” release closing a double-digit
number of bugs every couple of months or so, usually followed by a few quick bug fix releases in new checks.

Debian Linux Find Out What Package Provides a File

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dpkg is a tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. dpkg maintains some usable information about available packages.

Installing mod_geoip for Apache2 On Debian Etch

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Installing mod_geoip for Apache2 On Debian Etch

This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip
with Apache2 on a Debian Etch system. mod_geoip looks up the IP address
of the client end user. This allows you to redirect or block users
based on their country. You can also use this technology for your OpenX (formerly known as OpenAds or phpAdsNew) ad server to allow geo targeting.

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Speed Up Your System With Preload On Fedora 8

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Speed Up Your System With Preload On Fedora 8

This document describes how to install preload on Fedora 8. Preload
is an adaptive readahead daemon - it will monitor which programs you
use at the most. Parts of these programs will be cached to speed up
their load time.

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Installing The Amazon MP3 Downloader On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

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Installing The Amazon MP3 Downloader On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

This short guide explains how to install the Amazon MP3 Downloader
on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). The Amazon MP3 Downloader is required
for album purchases on Amazon.com, and makes downloading songs fast and
easy.

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Creating the debian-sys-maint MySQL account on a Debiansystem

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I was working on a server running MySQL and found that the debian-sys-maint account not longer existed which caused errors when upgrading the mysql packages.