If your like me it annoys you that your desktop keeps messing with your CPU speeds when all you wan’t is performance. Fortunately its easy enough to fix. Open a terminal windows and execute: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rcconf (Chances are you may already have the rcconf installed.)…
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The newest Long Term Support (LTS) version of the Ubuntu distro labelled Lucid Lynx was released earlier today. This release is packed with new packages and enhancements, making me keen to try it out. Not being brave enough to gamble with my current desktop machine running Karmic Koala I decided…
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Bind9 has treated us well over the years, but its lack of support for database back ends in a default install is very annoying, especially when an application needs to control DNS services dynamically. PowerDNS is a powerful alternative it supports a wide variety of back ends and can also…
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