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Smarter Linux file structure aims to ease software management

The Unix file system hierarchy has been used for decades and remains the model for most of today’s modern Linux systems, but one distribution, GoboLinux, is making software management easier with an innovative directory structure.

By Rodney Gedda | 22 January, 2010 14:31

Tags: files, GoboLinux, Linux, linux.conf.au, software maintenance, software management, system administrators

Yahoo extends YQL Web data query platform

Yahoo released on Wednesday an extension to its YQL platform for simplifying how Web applications consume data.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 30 April, 2009 05:42

Tags: data storage, Yahoo, yql

Generating regexes and Gmail filters

Before I launch into my main thrust (a word that must be pronounced with a rolling "r") I have to direct you to a work of near genius, txt2re, an online regular expression code generator.

By Mark Gibbs | 16 March, 2009 08:39

Tags: gmail, regular expressions

Telstra revamps Windows Mobile, eyes cloud UC

Telstra and Microsoft have announced a partnership to bring hosted mobile application and unified communication services to small businesses, including its own souped-up version of Windows Mobile developed locally.

By Rodney Gedda | 05 November, 2008 14:43

Tags: C#, cloud computing, Microsoft, Telstra, unified communications, Windows Mobile

Glintech integrates Asterisk, Jabber for open source UC platform

When Sydney-based IT services company Glintech discovered the benefits of IM and required a PABX replacement, it took the Asterisk and Jabber open source projects under its wing and created and integrated, unified communications service.

By Rodney Gedda | 01 October, 2008 14:55

Tags: asterisk, glintech, im, jabber, ldap, pabx, php, VoIP, xmpp

Traveling Down the Unix $PATH

This article is based on a question that came out of July's installment of Unix 101:

Microsoft releases scripting tool for Vista

Microsoft Tuesday released a much awaited scripting tool for Vista designed to help administrators more easily handle and automate common system management tasks.