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Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 has been released and download it while it is hot!

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This test suite creates a BitTorrent-like transfer between your machine and our server, and determines whether or not your ISP is limiting such traffic. This is a first step towards making traffic manipulation by ISPs more transparent to their customers.

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AWStats is a free powerful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line. This document describes awstats configuration.

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This is a nice shell scripting hack. It allows you to give a progress bar like wget to cp command.

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Here is quick tip, if you wish to perform an unattended download of large files such as Linux DVD ISO use wget as follows:
wget -bqc http://path.com/url.iso
Where,
=> -b : Go to background immediately after startup. If no output file is specified via the -o, output is redirected to wget-log.
=> -q : Turn off Wget’s output [...]

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You need to verify that that downloaded Linux DVD or ISO images are intact before you burn and use them. This is security feature. But how do you verify ISO images?
Answer is quite simple use md5sum command to compute and check MD5 message digest.
Why verify ISO images?
a) To protect yourself
b) Verify that a file has [...]

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Malware is used for a harmful purpose. It can be in your software or hardware. Email and free (don’t confuse with OSS) or pirated software is the most famous way to spread malware. It is inserted in a system w/o user notification.
Wikipedia defines Malware as:
Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a [...]

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