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Selling my Ultimate Linux Workstation

I am selling my work station that I spent several years building up. It is a pretty hefty little system considering what all is in it but since I got my Dell laptop I haven’t used it at all really. Sad I know. The processor is not the fastest that is available but all of the other hardware surrounding it is extremely cool and up-to-date still. Since it is an open architecture system you can just upgrade until you are blue in the face. Read more for specs and pricing. Also, sorry I haven’t been posting any news to the site lately, I have been extremely busy launching some new sites.
yes I know the picture is broke, I’ll fix it later

There is a new Linux distribution that is gaining ground quickly in the Linux community. No it isn’t Red Hat, Debian, or Mandrake, it is called Gentoo Linux, pronounced “jen-two”. I have been playing with it for several weeks and thought that it was time to share my experience with this new found OS.

There appears to be a bug in the 2.4-14 – 2.4-18pre9 Linux kernel which allows someone to compromise a Linux system. The hole is in the Netfilter package which is part of the kernel. Redhat has released a patch for its systems here. The original release about the problem can be found here

Ok all of you Linux geeks. Get out your pencils because I am about to tell you how to get rid of those 30 minute fscks when Linux crashes, the power goes out, or someone presses your reset button just for laughs. The following outlines how to setup the Ext3 journaling file system on your already installed Linux. It is short and really isn’t all that hard to follow.

I get this question a lot from windows users: “Can windows read files from a linux file system?”. It turns out that now you can thanks to John Newbigin’s Explore2fs for windows. Here is a screen shot of it for you non-believers out there:
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