Dear Reader,
What are the most useful and widely applicable open source administrative tools?
O'Reilly author, AEleen Frisch (Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition) has picked five that she believes are the best. In a sort of "David Letterman Gone Geek" approach, she's presenting her favorites in consecutive articles, starting with No. 5 and working her way to No.1.
This week she writes about Amanda (Advanced Maryland Automated Network Disk Archiver), which was developed at the University of Maryland. Amanda is a network-based enterprise backup utility that's useful in a variety of computing environments.
If you're working with system administration, I recommend that you check out the current Amanda article, and the subsequent entries in this useful review of open source utilities.
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Top Five Open Source Packages for System Administrators
AEleen Frisch, author of the recently released Essential System
Administration, 3rd Edition, offers the first installment in a
five-part series on the most useful and widely applicable open
source administrative tools. We'll begin the countdown with number
five, Amanda, a network-based enterprise backup utility.
Internet Radio the P2P Way
Howard Wen reviews PeerCast and Streamer, two programs that without
the need for a dedicated server, let you stream audio files to
other users on a P2P network. Get ready to run your own Internet
radio station.
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You can't create a SOAP Web service with AppleScript, but you can
have it act as a SOAP Web client and use Perl to create the service.
So it becomes a simple matter of passing structured data between
Perl and AppleScript. Randal Schwartz explains how to enable Web
services with these two scripting languages.
Utilities for Switching on the Cheap
Once you've migrated to Mac OS X, you'll probably find that you're
missing a few of those handy utilities that make life so much
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create your own browser.
Slapper Worm
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Introduction to OOP in VB.NET
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After Tim O'Reilly posted his article, "Mac OS X Switcher Stories,"
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This article does just that and includes some fascinating comments
from those who reacted both positively and negatively to the notion
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Serve Your iCal Calendars Using WebDAV
Apple is more than happy to host your iCal calendars via its Dot-Mac
service. But you can serve your own calendars, and even have them
automatically update subscriber versions, by using WebDAV. Erik
Ray shows you how.
European Union Researches the Benefits of Open Source Software
Andy Oram looks at the possible implications of a recent study,
sponsored by the EU, which explored the reasons behind the
widespread use of, and support for, free and open source software.
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Let One Hundred Browsers Bloom
In this article, David Boswell, coauthor of Creating Applications
with Mozilla surveys some of the more interesting, and useful,
Mozilla-based browsers available now.
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