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Personal Computing with Asher Bond: Ubuntu Studio

What makes Ubuntu Studio more relateable than other Linux desktop distributions is that Ubuntu Studio allows for direct, realtime process prioritized access to drivers and peripherals. If low latency is your priority, you should download the Ubuntu Studio 10.10 Maverick

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Personal Computing Nightmares with Asher Bond: Ubuntu Fiction Based on a True Story

This is Personal Computing with Asher Bond… Where Asher Bond takes computing personally. Unbelieveably, Netflix is not yet able to provide streaming support… or even unlocked ACCESS for Ubuntu (the most relateable, extensible, and personal computing platform available) due to

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sizeup.sh for cleaning house… I mean cloud.

In a previous post, I described an experimental method of mounting S3 as a virtual file system within a cloud instance. I’m still in the process of doing spring cleaning… although fall is basically here… but anyway cleanliness is generally

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Posted in cloud computing, systems design for scale

What do you expect?

In the future, computers will be more and more portable and the networks that connect computers together will be much faster. Data will be centralized for the purposes of logical integrity. This requires that networks be made fast, reliable, and

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configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.

I got this error when trying to configure php 5.2.6: configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation. I’m using Debian and it showed that I had libxml2 installed (and it was the latest version). It turns out

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dev/null, screen, and ptmx permission problems in xen vps

I got switched to a Xen VPS (debian linux) recently and discovered that some applications couldn’t write to /dev/null. It turns out that /dev/null was actually only readable and writable by root. I logged in as root and changed the

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