Off the Beat * Bruce Byfield

Free Software: Doing the Impossible I worry about free software's lack of diversity, but I also find much to admire. I like how free software makes computers available to impoverished people and nations who otherwise could never afford them.

Ubuntu at 10: All That Way for This?

"In a middle of a good time * Fate dealt me her icy kiss * Look around, you must be joking * We've come all that way for this." Oysterband

Last week, Ubuntu celebrated the 10th anniversary of its first release.

Productivity Sauce * Dmitri Popov

Generate Slick Galleries in Seconds with 1Page Gallery At first glance, 1Page Gallery looks like yet another single-page PHP script for publishing photos. But if you look closer, you'll notice that unlike its counterparts, the tiny application generates galleries from a ZIP archive containing photos.

Extend Bash and Zsh Prompt with Liquid Prompt The default Bash or Zsh prompt isn't exactly a hub of useful information, but you can change that by deploying Liquid prompt. Once enabled, Liquid prompt turns the humble prompt into a dashboard capable of displaying all sorts of data: from processor load and battery status to current time and the key info of the current Git repo. Better still, Liquid prompt is easy to install and requires no tweaking or complicated configuration.

ADMIN HPC

http://hpc.admin-magazine.com/

Top Top-Like Tools * Jeff Layton

Admins solve problems ranging from slow servers to failing applications. The first tool I reach for when I need to check on a server with shell access is Top.

Student Cluster Competition * Joe Casad

Winners of an annual contest sponsored by HPC Advisory Council to be announced at SC14.

ADMIN Online

http://www.admin-magazine.com/

Hardware MFA: Death to the Password! * Joseph Guarino

Passwords have been around since the 1960s, and they are still the mainstay for authentication. The good news is you have alternatives in hardware multifactor authentication.

ZFS on Linux * Mark Feilner and Hans-Peter Merkel

The new version 10 of FreeBSD can cause Linux admins problems when attempting to reconstruct data from ZFS pools.

Disaster Recovery for Windows Servers * Thomas Joos

When a server fails, you need a considered but fast response. Experts have some easy ways to put Windows servers back on their feet, but some of these powerful techniques could render your system completely useless.