Videos in category Linux

Keep an eye on your stuff with free softwareDo you suspect someone is tampering with your gear? Just use the free, cross-platform tool VitaminD, and turn your webcam into a security camera with tons of features! Veronica has all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

Track and save your mouse activityWant a unique and geeky way to create a new wallpaper? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica introduces you to IOGraph, a free, cross-platform download that tracks your mouse movements as you work, letting you save the masterpiece as an image. Squarespace is a publishing system for anyone looking to build a blog, portfolio or any kind of website...Squarespace off...

This talk will give you a better idea of what it takes to scale Facebook.From the day that Mark Zuckerberg started building Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004 to today, the site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Today Facebook reaches over 350 million people per month, is the largest PHP site in the World, and has released major pieces o...

13 Free Windows Apps, 5 Free OS X Apps, 4 Free Cloud Applications You'll Want! 2 Sites For Finding Free Stuff, 1 Free OS: Ubuntu, lots of places you can find free content, Even More Free Stuff from Maximum PC's Will Smith, and Finding Free Fax, aka Why Won't Fax Die! Welcome to Tekzilla... hands on reviews of the latest tech, and how to make the most out of the gear you already own! Veronica Be...

This guide will show you how to hook up a hostname to your new Ubuntu VPS Mosso Cloud server and explain how to add in domains as virtual hosts. Created by philsturgeon

This screencast will show you how to set up a Mosso Cloud Server running Ubuntu 8.04 and get it displaying static content via an IP address. It is the first in a 2-parter that leads on to explain how to get a full VPS running. Created by philsturgeon

The Linux Kernel, who is developing it, how they are doing it, and why you should care. This talk describes the rate of development for the Linux kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change. It will detail who is doing the work, and what companies, if any, are sponsering it. Finally, it will go into why companie...

After years of automating systems with CFEngine, Luke Kanies, Puppet's primary author, had ideas about automation that he could not express with existing tools. He tried to fork CFEngine, but threw up his hands at the C code. As a sysadmin, his obvious next step was to try it with Perl. More frustration... Python was getting a lot of attention, but after investing tens of hours, Luke still coul...

In 1993 cfengine was one of the first open source configuration management systems for Unix, and the first to perform self-healing, long before IBM's autonomic computing initiative drew attention. Cfengine is now used on hundred of thousands of computers all over the world. In the late 1990's Mark Burgess came to realize that no one was really conducting research into large scale computer behav...

Coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS, was originally started in 1999 to complement LOBOS [2] (Linux OS Boots OS) as part of an effort to move away from inscrutible and inflexible proprietary BIOS firmware used in clusters at high-security government research labs. However, coreboot took on a life of its own and quickly overcame many obstacles thanks to the help of a friendly and knowledgable o...