Features
On the Trail
Root out rootkits
Detect rootkits, worms, and other malware with chkrootkit.
NIC Check
Managing your network interface with ethtool
If ping won't solve your network configuration issues, try ethtool, a powerful utility that lets you manage configuration settings for your network interface card.
Salt and Pepper
Hashes, salt, and pepper
Cryptographic hash functions help you protect your passwords, but hashing is only secure if properly understood.
Getting Parallel
Creating parallel applications with the Julia programming language
Parallel processing is indispensable today – particularly in the field of natural sciences and engineering. Normal desktop users, however, can also benefit from higher performance through parallel execution with at least four calculation cores.
Members Only
Manage membership data through your website with Admidio
Admidio manages membership data online no matter what the platform and also manages event dates, times, and participants elegantly.
United
Use mhddfs to group hard disks and directories
The multi-hard drive disk filesystem (mhddfs) combines directories or hard disks on a union filesystem to create a single, large, virtual filesystem that you can use both locally and via Samba or NFS.
New Voice
Surprises in SQL – State-of-the-art options in the standard query language
In recent times, many developers have come to view SQL as inflexible and limited, but this classical database language has some tricks and special features that many users don't know about.
Go with the Flow
Analyzing network flow records
Detect operating systems, installed software, and more from easily collected metadata.
Crystal Clear
Crystal – A Ruby-esque programing language
Crystal is an open source project that seeks to combine the best of two worlds: the simplicity of a language syntax similar to Ruby and the speed and capabilities of the LLVM platform.
Go Find It
An indexing search engine with Nutch and Solr
Build you own search engine using Apache's Nutch web crawler and Solr search platform.
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