"Originally, all domain name resolution occurred on one computer, which contained a text file called HOSTS.TXT. However, as time went on, the HOSTS.TXT file required update after update. The computer containing this file was also being overrun with name resolution requests. Managing millions of constantly changing sets of name became a serious problem, so each domain that is registered now has its own DNS file."

"... install Linux, realize that Windows will screw up the boot record, delete the Linuxp artition, try to install Windows first... OOPS. The Windows setup runs into a problem and stops. The reason for all of the above is that they forgot to uninstall LILO"

"The goal of this Perl script is to just delete all partitions, create one partition that takes up the whole hard drive, and then fill up the hard drive with garbage data (including some random encrypted data just to ruin a hacker's day trying to find out what the data is)."

This article goes through the different features of Ximian GNOME and teaches you how to customize the desktop to suit your specific needs. Also reviewed are some of the applications that come with Ximian GNOME.

As a diagnostic resource the network diagram, describing the topology and providing detailed information of hardware, is essential. This article takes a quick look at some useful open-source tools available for Linux that will allow you to create and maintain useful network diagrams.

This article is the first one in a series about the main security holes that can usually to appear within an application. These articles show the ways to avoid them by changing the development habits.

Conceptually, the LVM allows you to combine and divide physical disk partitions in a completely flexible manner. The resulting filesystems are dynamically resizable, and their maximum size can exceed 1,000 terabytes.

This tutorial shows how to rebuild your Linux kernel step by step to get the right configuration for your machine. The articles starts with a introduction of the kernel, and then walks you through locating and downloading sources, configuring the kernel, compiling and installing the kernel, and boot configuration.

"This is a down and dirty guide to compiling Apache with PHP, MySQL and SSL support, as well as how to install SGI's 10xpatch for apache_1.3 series and the ZendOptimizer."

In yet another set of advancements to the kernel IP packet filtering code, netfilter allows users to set up, maintain, and inspect the packet filtering rules in the new 2.4 kernel. This article explains those changes and tips on how to get started.