Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0

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Posted 169 days, 10 hours ago by Bronwen

The 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.

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Posted 170 days, 6 hours ago by dman

A 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

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Posted 171 days, 1 hour ago by falko

This 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

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Posted 173 days, 1 hour ago by falko

This 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

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Posted 175 days, 22 hours ago by brettreasure

World Blog Awards: the blog, the party, the tidying-up afterwards...

How To Set Up A Loadbalanced HA Cluster (Ubuntu)

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Posted 176 days, 2 hours ago by falko

This 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

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Posted 176 days, 9 hours ago by Devar

A 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

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Posted 178 days, 5 hours ago by falko

This 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

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Posted 178 days, 15 hours ago by Bronwen

APPLE 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

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Posted 180 days, 6 hours ago by falko

This 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

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Posted 182 days, 12 hours ago by Devar

British 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

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Posted 183 days, 6 hours ago by falko

This 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

CFP: Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop 2008

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Posted 184 days, 8 hours ago by kimbowa

The Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop 2008 aims to present a balanced overview of online virtual worlds for educators, professionals and academics.

How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Debian Etch

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Posted 185 days, 12 hours ago by falko

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with 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 that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache serv

Wi-fi on steroids, yes please

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Posted 185 days, 19 hours ago by Bronwen

US GOVERNMENT engineers are winding up lab tests that will help determine whether Google's plan to beam internet searches over vacant airwaves would interfere with digital television signals.

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