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Apple Sydney Opening Frenzy
1pointsApple is a phenomena. 5000 crazy fans waited outside their store last night star struck by the dazzling product light-boxes that flanked the stores walls.
How To Set Up WebDAV With MySQL Authentication
1pointsThis guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication (using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on a Debian Etch server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol ...
Hopelessly Devoted to Steve: New Apple Store, Syd.
1pointsThere have been a number of people camped-out outside the new Apple Store in Sydney, which opens today.
Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0
1pointsThe BRW list of the top 100 web applications has been launched today with Migg 33, Confluence, Red Bubble, 3eep an Engagd making the Top 5.
Paper stronger than cast-iron.
1pointsA new kind of super-strong paper has been developed by Swedish researchers using nanotechnology that was first developed by plants.
How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster
1pointsThis tutorial shows how to configure a MySQL 5.1 cluster with five nodes: 1 x management, 2 x storage nodes and 2 x balancer nodes. This cluster is load-balanced by an Ultra Monkey package which provides heartbeat and ldirectord.
Installing An Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS DNS Server
1pointsThis tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) based server that offers DNS services using BIND. This article is written for the 32-bit version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, but should apply to the 64-bit version as well.
World Blog Awards in Perth
1pointsWorld Blog Awards: the blog, the party, the tidying-up afterwards...
How To Set Up A Loadbalanced HA Cluster (Ubuntu)
1pointsThis tutorial shows how to set up a two-node Apache web server cluster that provides high-availability. In front of the Apache cluster we create a load balancer that splits up incoming requests between the two Apache nodes.
Washing machine that uses just a cup of water
1pointsA washing machine that cleans clothes by pounding them with plastic chips could save billions of litres of water a year, its inventors claim.
Installing mod_geoip For Apache2 On Fedora 9
1pointsThis guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with Apache2 on a Fedora 9 system. mod_geoip looks up the IP address of the client end user. This allows you to redirect or block users based on their country.
Cut-price 3G iPhone in Australia next month
1pointsAPPLE has launched its new 3G iPhone and slashed the cost to almost half the price of the existing model. The new iPhone will cost from $US199 ($209.32) for the 8GB model to $US299 ($314.50) for 16GB.
The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 8.04
1pointsThis tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 8.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.
Natural Disasters Up 400+ Percent in Two Decades
1pointsBritish charity Oxfam has found that the earth is currently experiencing approximately 500 natural disasters per year, compared with 120 per year in the early 1980s. The number of weather-related disasters in 2006 was 240, compared with 60 in 1980.
Installing Songbird Media Player On Ubuntu 8.04
1pointsThis document describes how to set up Songbird 0.5 on Ubuntu 8.04. Taken from the Songbird page: "Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices
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