Getting started with Bacula
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Eugene Pankov | February 2013 | Open Source
The author of the book Network Backup with Bacula How-To, Eugene Pankov, explains how to set up the simplest Bacula Director and Bacula Storage installations and how the bconsole utility can be used to monitor and interact with daemons through this article.
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Matt Reid | February 2013 | Enterprise Articles Oracle
In the simplest terms, InnoDB is a transactional database information processing engine. It is the most commonly used engine currently available for the MySQL database application and was the first transactional engine offered with the application.
Different versions of MySQL ship with varying levels of InnoDB support and corresponding default settings for the InnoDB engine. Knowing which version of MySQL we're using will help us identify the baseline settings for the engine prior to going into development or production use of the database.
In this article by Matt Reid, author of Instant InnoDB, we'll cover the following topics:
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Ike Devolder | February 2013 | Linux Servers Open Source
Arch Linux is a very flexible distribution and this article by Ike Devolder, author of Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to will guide you to the point where you can get a basic system in place. From there on you can go in any direction you want. A simple server, a full-blown desktop system with all the bells and whistles. In the end, Arch Linux is always what you make of it.
These days the installation of Arch Linux might look like a work of insanity, as there is no installer available in the official media, just a guideline to follow. The installation without an installer is as easy as it can be. For experienced users, installing without an installer is even more convenient. The newest ISOs require that you have your machine connected to the Internet, as there are no longer packages available on the installation media.
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Rafał Kuć | February 2013 | Cookbooks
Setting up an example Solr instance is not a hard task, at least when setting up the simplest configuration. The simplest way is to run the example provided with the Solr distribution, that shows how to use the embedded Jetty servlet container.
In this article by Rafal Kuc, author of Apache Solr 4 Cookbook , we will cover the following topics:
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Running Solr on Jetty
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Running Solr on Apache Tomcat
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Installing a standalone ZooKeeper
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Clustering your data
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Choosing the right directory implementation
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Configuring spellchecker to not use its own index
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Solr cache configuration
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How to fetch and index web pages
We have a simple configuration, simple index structure described by the schema.xml file, and we can run indexing.
In this article you'll see how to configure and use the more advanced Solr modules; you'll see how to run Solr in different containers and how to prepare your configuration to different requirements. You will also learn how to set up a new SolrCloud cluster and migrate your current configuration to the one supporting all the features of SolrCloud. Finally, you will learn how to configure Solr cache to meet your needs and how to pre-sort your Solr indexes to be able to use early query termination techniques efficiently.
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Dushyant Kanungo | February 2013 | Web Development
This article created by Dushyant Kanungo, the author of Instant Migration to HTML5 and CSS3 How-to gives a brief introduction of the interactive Rich Internet Application platform with HTML5 and CSS3. We will discuss a few basic possible applications of Canvas in routine websites.
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Aaron Woody | February 2013 | Architecture & Analysis Enterprise Articles
Security is a process that requires the integration of security into business processes to ensure enterprise risk is minimized to an acceptable level. Security as a process is an approach that highlights the integration of security and business initiatives to reduce the security impact of implementations and changes to the enterprise environment. This article by Aaron Woody, author of Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise, will introduce the concept of using risk analysis to drive security decisions.
Read An Introduction to Risk Analysis in fullApplications of Physics
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Brian Broyles Jayme Schroeder | February 2013 | Cookbooks Games Open Source
In this article by Jayme Schroeder and Brian Broyles the authors of AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook, we are going to see Physics-based games provide players with a unique type of experience not encountered in many other genres. This article covers the use of AndEngine's Box2D physics extension. Our recipes include:
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Introduction to the Box2D physics extension
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Understanding different body types
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Creating category-filtered bodies
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Creating multiple-fixture bodies
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Creating unique bodies by specifying vertices
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Using forces, velocities, and torque
