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Troubleshooting Memory Usage

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If you are using VPS with very limited memory resources, the link provides excellent reference material on troubleshooting memory issues with some of the know applications that can possibly consume high memory.

Setting up ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) server with squid 3 as a Transparent Proxy

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Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

The best tips & tricks for bash, explained

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The bash shell is just amazing. There are so many tasks that can be simplified using its handy features. This tutorial tells about some of those features, explains what exactly they do and learns you how to use them.

Small getopts tutorial

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When you want to parse commandline arguments in a professional way, getopts is the tool of choice. Unlike its older brother getopt (note the missing s!), it's a shell builtin command. The advantage is

* you don't need to hand your positional parameters through to an external program
* getopts can easily set shell variables you can use for parsing (impossible for an external process!)
* you don't have to argue with several getopt implementations which had buggy concepts in the past (whitespaces, ...)
* getopts is defined in POSIX®

RabbitVCS - Easy version control for Linux

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RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. Currently, it is integrated into the Nautilus file manager and only supports Subversion, but our goal is to incorporate other version control systems as well as other file managers.

Seven habits of effective text editing

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If you spend a lot of time typing plain text, writing programs or HTML, you can save much of that time by using a good editor and using it effectively. This paper will present guidelines and hints for doing your work more quickly and with fewer mistakes...

GNOME Commander - Nice and fast file manager for the GNOME desktop

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GNOME Commander is a free two pane file manager in the tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander, it is built on the GTK-toolkit and GnomeVFS. GNOME Commander aims to fulfill the demands of more advanced users who like to focus on file management, their work through special applications and running smart commands. This program is not aimed at users wanting the weather forecast in a sidebar in their file manager.

Virtualbox 3.2 released and Ubuntu installation instructions included

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The VirtualBox team released a significant new version of Oracle VM VirtualBox(TM), its high performance,cross-platform virtualization software. VirtualBox 3.2, the first Oracle branded release since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc by Oracle Corp. earlier this year, contains many innovative new features which deliver further significant improvements in performance, power and supported guest operating system platforms.

Bash Tests

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The test application, also known as [, is an application that usually resides somewhere in /usr/bin or /bin and is used a lot by shell programmers to perform certain tests on variables. In a number of shells, including bash, [ is implemented as a shell builtin.

Difference between test, "[" and "[[":
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/031

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Screenshots Gallery

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This Screenshots Gallery includes installation process,Desktop,applications

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