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Funambol provides push email, PIM synchronization, and device management for mobile devices, with all the advantages of open source software.

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Peer-to-peer software applications are a network administrator’s nightmare. In order to be able to exchange packets with their counterpart as directly as possible they use subtle tricks to punch holes in firewalls, which shouldn’t actually be letting in packets from the outside world.

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Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency — and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, so you can learn exactly why these UNIX habits are worth picking up.

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Don’t be surprised if you see a lot, and we mean a lot, of news about Red Hat in business publications on Dec. 12, when Red Hat moves from the Nasdaq to the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange).

While Linux users may not notice one whit of difference, it’s a major change for the company. Red Hat launched its IPO (initial public offerings) on the Nasdaq on Aug. 11, 1999. On that date, the fledging Linux company’s stock famously more than tripled in value.

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Not all media is good. In fact, with the high influx of cheap media from Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, I’d venture to say most media is bad. This review guide is meant to shed some light on who manufactures and brands good and not so good quality DVD media.

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Following up our article: Top 20 Hackers in Film History and Vibrant’s Top 10 Servers in the movies, I felt obligated to dispel some of the notions about programming that these movies endorse. I understand that Hollywood needs to dress things up to make them more entertaining, but in the case of programmers, code, and hackers they’ve done more than dress things up - they’ve morphed a little stuffed teddy bear into a cybernetic polar bear covered in christmas lights and phosphorescent hieroglyphics with a fog machine pumping rainbow smoke out of his ass. In other words, they’ve layered a ridiculous amount of extravagance on top of something that in reality is very grounded.

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Simply put, ZFS is a new kind of file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, and end-to-end data integrity. Today it’s recognized as one of the features that makes Solaris 10 the most advanced operating system on the planet, but all along the way, there were obstacles — both political and technical.

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All DreamHost hosting packages include access to these two extremely useful Flash-based plugins. Be it photo slideshows or embedded video, we’ve got you covered!

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