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Selena Frye

Selena Frye

TechRepublic Staff

Selena Frye

Selena Frye
Selena has been at TechRepublic since 2002. She is currently a Senior Editor with a background in technical writing, editing, and research. She edits Data Center, Linux and Open Source, Apple in the Enterprise, The Enterprise Cloud, Web Designer, and IT Security blogs.
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    I am "smolten" with Linux!

    Okay it was a bad play on words but, hopefully, it got your attention. Why? Because that's sort of the issue behind this blog. Attention. Or at least gaining the world's attention. Okay let me...

    Posted by Jack Wallen | July 29, 2007, 1:20 PM PDT | Latest comment by Neon Samurai

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    Get more out of the ls command

    The ls command is a well-known and often used command-line program that is used to list directory contents by name; in fact, it could be argued that it is the most used Linux command-line...

    Posted by Vincent Danen | July 27, 2007, 8:05 AM PDT | Latest comment by mostafa815@...

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    SolutionBase downloads examine server-side Linux

    For those of you interested in Linux networking, TechRepublic recently published an entire series of downloads (also available as articles) on a number of networking topics; many of these are...

    Posted by Selena Frye | July 26, 2007, 1:30 PM PDT

  • 31

    Linspire gets Microsofter

    If you're a user of Linspire, congratulations! You get MS True Type Fonts, DVD Playback, Windows Media Player 10...and...and... The shaft. You can't, in the usual spirit of open source software,...

    Posted by Jack Wallen | July 23, 2007, 5:29 AM PDT | Latest comment by nighthawk808

  • 3

    Get the most from the du and df commands

    While Linux has a number of very nice GUIs, using the command-line interface can be faster and produce more information than GUI tools can, especially when it comes to reporting and viewing disk...

    Posted by Vincent Danen | July 20, 2007, 11:04 AM PDT | Latest comment by hady@...

  • 8

    Install Microsoft core TrueType fonts in Mandriva Linux

    The default fonts packaged with Linux are definitely passable; however, Microsoft has some freely available TrueType fonts that make Linux look even better. These fonts technically aren't...

    Posted by Vincent Danen | July 16, 2007, 6:33 AM PDT | Latest comment by jlwallen@...

  • 1

    Open sourcing problems

    Let me set the stage here. I own an older Apple iBook 12" G3 laptop. It runs Kubuntu quite well (much better than it ever ran OS X actually.) But for the last year the screen had crapped out and...

    Posted by Jack Wallen | July 16, 2007, 5:58 AM PDT

  • 2

    Take the plunge with Linux 101 how-tos

    Browse the Linux 101 series for beginning-level tutorials that you can download.

    Posted by Selena Frye | July 12, 2007, 12:52 PM PDT | Latest comment by Selena Frye

  • 0

    Monitor network traffic with ntop

    Like the command-line tool with a similar name, ntop is a monitoring agent. Instead of monitoring system resource usage like top, ntop monitors network usage and provides some very sophisticated...

    Posted by Vincent Danen | July 9, 2007, 8:23 AM PDT

  • 5

    Neo 1973: Open source phone, open source sexy

    The iPhone. Ah the iPhone. Who of us stood in line, like a Star Wars fan boy, waiting to lay their eyes and hands on what seems to be the be-all, end-all salvation of the tech world? Well, I for...

    Posted by Jack Wallen | July 9, 2007, 7:02 AM PDT | Latest comment by doug@...

  • 1

    The "tivoization-less" GPL

    So version 3 of the GPL is out! Sadly the announcement came without out so much as a whimper from the world. That's too bad because there is one thing about the new GPL that any champion of open...

    Posted by Jack Wallen | July 2, 2007, 12:43 PM PDT

  • 3

    Automate subversion backups

    Subversion is increasing in popularity and usage, and while it makes a fantastic version control system -- as with all things -- it needs to be properly backed up. If subversion is used as a...

    Posted by Vincent Danen | June 29, 2007, 8:37 AM PDT | Latest comment by vdanen

  • 6

    A couple of MySQL stored procedures myths get busted

    This post is also available as a TechRepublic download. Two often repeated myths about MySQL stored procedures include (1) MySQL does not support stored procedures and (2) MySQL stored procedures...

    Posted by Edmond Woychowsky | June 29, 2007, 8:28 AM PDT | Latest comment by perkiset

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    How do I... Customize Apache Server log files to track my Web site?

    This blog entry is also available as a TechRepublic download. For a Web site owner or administrator trying to gauge the popularity and usability of his/her Web site, log file analysis is possibly...

    Posted by Melonfire | June 25, 2007, 12:23 PM PDT

  • 2

    Execute local Nagios checks on remote systems

    I've covered the system monitoring tool Nagios in a previous tip, focusing on using it to monitor remote systems and explaining some of its basic configurations. But, in addition to monitoring...

    Posted by Vincent Danen | June 25, 2007, 8:43 AM PDT | Latest comment by tech@...

  • 0

    Rebuild/Upgrade your system with ease

    With Fedora 7 now out, I am posed with the task of upgrading my operating system. The problem is I know I have a lot of applications installed that aren't a part of the new Fedora. So I thought...

    Posted by Jack Wallen | June 25, 2007, 6:16 AM PDT

  • 2

    Personalizing your bash prompt

    Based on my last blog entry, I thought I would give you some tips on personalizing your bash prompt. I've been doing this for a long, long time and I find it makes using your terminal more simple...

    Posted by Jack Wallen | June 18, 2007, 7:42 AM PDT | Latest comment by tanguy.arzel@...

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    Create encrypted loopback filesystems on Linux

    One nice feature about Mac OS X that is widely advertised is the fact that you can create encrypted disk images very easily. These disk images can be used to store documents and files, and can be...

    Posted by Vincent Danen | June 15, 2007, 1:27 PM PDT | Latest comment by stomfi@...

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    Keeping the command line alive

    Over the last year I have noticed something: I pretty much consistently leave a terminal window open on my desktop at all times. I am using Aterm running with the command: aterm -tr -sh 50 -fg...

    Posted by Jack Wallen | June 11, 2007, 12:15 PM PDT | Latest comment by ureckifix@...

  • 2

    Tuning NFS for better performance

    The Network File System (NFS) is still very popular on Linux systems, but it can use some help to increase performance by tweaking the relatively conservative defaults that most Linux...

    Posted by Vincent Danen | June 11, 2007, 10:12 AM PDT | Latest comment by sarath022

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