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"Relax and Recover (abbreviated ReaR) is a highly modular disaster recovery framework for GNU/Linux based systems, but can be easily extended to other UNIX alike systems. The disaster recovery information (and maybe the backups) can be stored on the network, USB devices and DVD/CD-R. The result is bootable rescue system that can be booted via PXE, DVD/CD and USB media. The rear project is a spin-off of two existing projects: * OpenVPN Gateway Builder (OGB) of Schlomo Schapiro, and * Make CD-ROM Recovery (mkCDrec) of Gratien D'haese

Ovidius GmbH, one of the leading suppliers of XML-based Content Management Systems on the European Market, recently acquired EasyBrowse EP-Service GmbH. An established developer of solutions for electronic publishing, which aims to meet the special needs of publishing houses and the publishing industry, EasyBrowse is poised to expand Ovidius' portfolio as supplier of end-to-end solutions for creating, managing and publishing technical documentation.

Does someome have any links or documentation for qli.exe? I recently used qli.exe scripts for fixing BD structure corruption as described in http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_db_corr , since then and I’ve been searching for information about qli commands or scripts but it seems not to be so much information about it. Near the bottom of this page is a download link for the qli syntax [...]

For a lot of programmers, writing an application is fun, but writing its manual is not. Adding new features, refining the product, and responding to users' input are all more rewarding than writing instructions on how to use the software. However, good documentation is necessary to have happy, informed users who can contribute meaningfully to future development. read more

I know a lot of people who use open source every day, from OpenOffice to the GIMP and Linux, open source has something for everyone. Recently I was asked how could someone give back to the developers of Free Software?

"I'll just take this opportunity to ask people that when they send bug-fixes, please try to make the subject line and message make sense for a *reader*, not for yourself (or even to me, although if it's readable to some generic person, it's hopefully readable to me too!)," Linus Torvalds explained in response to a recent bugfix. He went on to provide some general rules:

"For SysRq, we can get [a] hot key list from Documentation/sysrq.txt, but in most of cases, the user can't access it [when] using SysRq to debug, so it is better for SysRq to provide online help for the users," Yi Yang noted, explaining the need for his patch to improve SysReq's built in help. He continued, "in addition, that function has a big loop with another big loop embedded which is very inefficient".