From Linux.com

While podcasting and video blogging are all the rage, many people still prefer the simplicity of the typed word for expressing themselves online — that is, a blog. However, popular blogging platforms like WordPress and Movable Type can be tough to configure and maintain. On the other hand, you might not want to use an online service like Blogger or TypePad because you want complete control over your blog. If you’re not afraid of the command line, take a peek at Bash Blogger. As its name implies, this application is a bash script that automates all of your blogging tasks (aside from writing, of course).

Bash Blogger’s shell scripts come in a 36KB archive. After you download it, extract the archive somewhere in your path, then run the script bblog_setup, which will create a directory containing Bash Blogger’s configuration file and a bunch of supporting files. If all goes well, the installation should take only a few seconds.

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I finally got around to setting up a Remember the Milk account. I needed something I could manage my todo lists in that didn’t suck as much as Outlook 2007 (I have to use Outlook at work) but that I could still see and manage on my SK3 when I am mobile (which can be the better part of my day sometimes). Enter Remember the Milk. It’s a pretty nice service with the ability to specify locations (I don’t know that I care too much about that right now), integration with my Google Calendar (whoop whoop), and I can have a bunch of specific lists to contain all the todos so I don’t have to have crazy long titles for my tasks. I only seem to be having one issue; now that all the categories are made, alerts are configured, and locations are defined I have no energy to put in my tasks. :P

From Performancing:

So you’re planning to launch a new blog but don’t want to reveal it to anyone quite yet, for a variety of reasons. You want to be able to view individual posts as they would normally appear, but neither want them indexed nor visible to anyone. Or you want to test some themes on an existing blog without your visitors having to see.

There are a few ways to accomplish either, and it’s relatively easy. Just make sure you take precautions to back up your existing blog and database. (I’ve wiped out a few sites. Fortunately, they never had more than about 9 posts, and could be fixed manually.)

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From SocialTech

Found this list via the Web 2.0 (Entrepreneurs) group over at Facebook - an amazingly well connected group. As an aside, they also have a Join a Startup group for people wanting to join or recruit into startups, and a brand new sub-group, Web T.e, for experienced programmers, founders, developers & designers.

Anyhow, the call was for a list of female founders of web2 companies - it’s a respectable list but considering the number of 2.0 startups around there must be a few more to add. Check it out.

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From the Amarok Blog:

Ever since it was first announced that Amarok 2.0 would be available for windows, there have been mixed reactions. Most responses have been quite enthusiastic, but some seem to think that releasing Amarok for windows will give people one less reason to switch to GNU/Linux or other FOSS operating systems.

When the announcement of the new Amarok 1.4.6 release was posted to digg.com this argument reared its head again and I decided I would write a post about why I think that releasing Amarok (or any other free software program) for Windows is actually a good idea, if your goal is to attract people to alternatives. (disclaimer: I am reusing a comment I wrote on digg last night)

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From ZDNet India:

The Linux kernel and the distributions that package it typically provide very conservative defaults to certain network settings that affect networking parameters. These settings can be tuned via the /proc filesystem or using the sysctl program. The latter is often better, as it reads the contents of /etc/sysctl.conf, which allows you to keep settings across reboots.

The following is a snippet from /etc/sysctl.conf that may improve network performance:

net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
net.core.rmem_max = 16777216
net.core.wmem_max = 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 16777216

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At first blush, the new offering, with a proposed release this fall, appears to have the makings of a serious competitor. Designed as an add-on “EDU-CD” to accompany the upcoming 10.3 release of openSUSE, the so-called “SLEducator” is designed to “[ease] the installation and configuration of an educational network and student desktop.”

Read more at ZDNet Education Blog

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