A Telecom Service Provider Handles Huge Volumes of Data Using PostgreSQL
A telecom service provider searching for a scalable database solution to handle a humongous database, found its answer in PostgreSQL. Siddhartha Singh, one of the EnterpriseDB PostgreSQL contest winners, shares with the LINUX…
Olive Healthcare Slashes IT Costs by Migrating to Desktop Linux
A manufacturer found migrating to Linux to be a breeze, apart from being cost-effective. Users in SMEs often have similar requirements in terms of everyday computing needs — a user-friendly operating system, office…
Advanced Awk for Sysadmins
In this article, we will discuss advanced Awk functionality, including string- and time-manipulation functions, associative arrays and user-defined functions. These can be very useful for a systems administrator to quickly summarise and analyse…
Web Application Penetration Testing Using Samurai
This article introduces you to penetration-testing of Web applications. Also included is some hands-on work with a Web-testing framework called Samurai. Penetration testing, affectionately called pen-testing, involves testing a piece of software, or…
The Comperhensive LAMP Guide, Part-1: Compiling and Optimising Apache
These days, almost everyone needs a website. Online business is picking up, and an Internet presence is a must for firms wanting to expand their business. If you’re the freelance Web designer or…
NIT-C Students Use PostgreSQL to Design Their Own Video Repository
The students of NIT-C, who were one of the winners of the EnterpriseDB PostgreSQL contest, share with the LINUX For You team how they created an internal database of MIT and IIT video…
Testing Your Databases with DbUnit
DbUnit is ideal as an add-on testing framework when developing applications in Java-based languages, which rely heavily on databases. This article assumes that the reader is aware of basic testing concepts, and tries…
A Simple Guide to Database Design in MySQL
As the title says, this is an introduction to databases, their purpose and features. It deals with how to design and create a simple database in MySQL. Starting off with the concepts of…
When Should I Consider an Open Source Database?
This article gives you facts, figures, and useful advice on when choosing an open source database makes good business sense. Read on! 2010 was a very good year for open source databases, with…
Databases in the Era of Cloud Computing and Big Data
We take a look at the directions in which databases are evolving, driven by the twin factors of the “Cloud” and “Big Data”. Let’s start with a quick look at cloud computing, and…
May 21, 2013
JKR — More efficient? Probably. More readable? Definitely not.
May 21, 2013
Prashanth Joshi — The author assumes that the first article being introductory in nature is for the beginners. So there is no question...
May 21, 2013
Peter — Hi I followed the steps but on bootup of qemu it hangs at "Stopping configure virtual network devices, waiting for...
May 20, 2013
Aseem — can u just elaborate this part "edit the output file to include only the hash value. (It should only include...
May 19, 2013
raghu ram — Hi Anil, Your articles are awesome Please give some tutorials on PCI Sound Card drivers using ALSA.
