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VT100 User Guide

This document is a reproduction of the third edition of this book, published by Digital in June 1981. Although I have proof-read this, there may still be errors remaining. If you find one, please tell me! Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis and Kevin Poynor for giving me copies of this book; many people will benefit from your generosity. Found @ http://vt100.net/docs/vt100-ug/

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Application development for the OLPC laptop

The XO laptop (of the One-Laptop-Per-Child initiative) is an inexpensive laptop project intended to help educate children around the world. The XO laptop includes many innovations, such as a novel, inexpensive, and durable hardware design and the use of GNU/Linux as the underlying operating system. The XO also includes an application environment written in Python with a human interface called S...

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Compiling and installing software from sources

Learn how to compile and install open source programs from their original source code. This tutorial shows how to compile the vast majority of Unix sources. developerWorks columnist Daniel Robbins steps you through the whole process of unpacking, inspection, configuration, compilation, and installation in this tutorial and gets you going on Linux. Found @ ibm.com

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Fast Web browsing with a caching proxy

This free tutorial will show you how to compile, install, and configure oops, an open source, high-performance, multi-threaded Web proxy under Linux. Caching Web proxies are especially useful for accelerating Web browsing performance while at the same time conserving your network bandwidth. Found @ ibm.com

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Backing up your Linux machines

Cover your back in the worst-case scenario with the techniques in this tutorial. Even new, high-quality hard drives will occasionally fail. Regular system backups are essential, especially for busy developers who make continual improvements to their code. This tutorial shows you how to protect yourself from losing huge amounts of critical data. Found @ ibm.com

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Build a Linux test network

This tutorial shows how to combine Samba and GRUB to build a compact, highly adaptable, cross-platform test network, capable of booting and networking a large number of operating systems on a small number of machines. Though Samba and GRUB can manage many different operating systems, this tutorial focuses on Linux and Windows. Found @ ibm.com

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Build a GCC-based cross compiler for Linux

Get step-by-step instructions for building a cross-compiler so that you can build and develop applications for an alternative platform. Cross-compilers can be useful in many different situations, such as when you develop applications for embedded platforms. Found @ ibm.com

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Test-first programming with Ruby

This tutorial will build a simple Ruby application following Test First principles. It will start with an overview of the Test::Unit library that ships with Ruby then move on to writing tests from a specification and writing code to fulfill those test. It will touch on tools like ZenTest and unit_diff, and on the process of refactoring. The tutorial will be built around a single programming exa...

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Manage C data using the GLib collections

In this tutorial, learn how to use the GLib collection data structures to effectively manage data within C programs. In particular, you'll see how to use GLib's built-in data structures/containers -- linked lists, hash tables, arrays, trees, queues, and relations -- to fill the need for them in C. Found @ ibm.com

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vi intro -- the cheat sheet method

This tutorial shows how to use vi, a powerful visual editor. Using an accelerated "cheat sheet" method, this tutorial aims to make you a proficient vi user without requiring a huge time commitment. You'll quickly learn how to move around, edit text, use insert mode, copy and paste text, and use important vim extensions like visual mode and multi-window editing. Found @ ibm.com

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Hacking the Linux 2.6 kernel, Part 2 Making your first hack

In this second of a two-part series, discover the organization of the Linux kernel source, build an understanding of system calls, and craft your own kernel modules and patches. Found @ ibm.com

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Hacking the Linux 2.6 kernel, Part 1 Getting ready

In this first of a two-part series, learn about system and environment requirements, the best ways to acquire Linux source code, how to configure and boot your new kernel, and how to use the printk function to print messages during bootup. Found @ ibm.com

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UNIX tips and tricks for a new user, Part 4 Some nifty shell tricks

When writing a shell program, you often come across some special situation that you'd like to handle automatically. This tutorial includes examples of such situations from small Bourne shell scripts. These situations include base conversion from one string to another (decimal to hex, hex to decimal, decimal to octal, and so on), reading the keyboard while in a piped loop, subshell execution, in...

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UNIX tips and tricks for a new user, Part 3 Introducing filters and regular expressions

Discover the power of UNIX(R) filters. In this tutorial, you'll learn about the grep family in depth, including the syntax of regular expressions in many UNIX utilities. You'll also find out more about the stream editor, sed, as well as examine the awk pattern scanning language through examples and explanations. Found @ ibm.com

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Industrial-strength Linux lockdown, Part 2 Executing only signed binaries

For technical and non-technical users alike, maintaining a large installed base of Linux machines can be a harrowing experience for an administrator. Technical users take advantage of Linux's extreme configurability to change everything to their liking, while non-technical users running amok within their own file systems. This tutorial is the second in a two-part series on locking your Linux ma...

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Building your own memory manager for C C++ projects

Performance optimization of code is serious business. It's fairly common to see a piece of functionally correct software written in C or C++ that takes way too much memory, time, or, in the worst case, both. As a developer, one of the most powerful tools that C/C++ arms you with to improve processing time and prevent memory corruption is the control over how memory is allocated or deallocated i...

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Industrial-strength Linux lockdown, Part 1 Removing the shell

For technical and non-technical users alike, maintaining a large installed base of Linux machines can be a harrowing experience for an administrator. Technical users take advantage of Linux's extreme configurability to change everything to their liking, while non-technical users running amok within their own file systems. This tutorial is the first in a two-part series that shows you how and wh...

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Sockets programming in Python

This tutorial shows how to develop sockets-based networking applications using Python. In this tutorial, you first learn a few Python basics and see why Python makes a good network programming language. Then you move on to the basic sockets features of Python, using a sample chat application as a guide, and look at several other, high-level, classes that provide asynchronous communications. ...

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Sockets programming in Ruby

This tutorial shows how to develop sockets-based networking applications using the Ruby language. You learn Ruby basics as well as the most important classes for sockets programming, and then look at a working chat application that illustrates these fundamentals. The tutorial finishes by exploring the higher-level classes that make it easy to build dynamic Web servers, mail servers and clients,...

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The TCP State Machine includes eleven states.

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