In this article by Carlos de la Guardia, author of Grok 1.0 Web Development, we will start with a quick demonstration of automatic forms. We'll briefly touch the concepts of interface and schema and show how they are used to generate forms automatically. Among other things, you'll learn how to filter fields and prevent them from appearing in a form, and how to change form templates and presentation.

Computerworld: "Ksplice Inc. today officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers"

Is Android at odds with Linux after the removal of Android device drivers from the Linux source code tree or is this business as usual for the Linux community and nothing new? The H looks at the issues.

Is Android at odds with Linux after the removal of Android device drivers from the Linux source code tree or is this business as usual for the Linux community and nothing new? The H looks at the issues.

VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless OpenSUSE 11.2 Server

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless OpenSUSE 11.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

chrony is a pair of programs for keeping computer clocks accurate. chronyd is a background (daemon) program and chronyc is a command-line interface to it. Time reference sources for chronyd can be RFC1305 NTP servers, human (via keyboard and chronyc), or the computer's real-time clock at boot time (Linux only). chronyd can determine the rate at which the computer gains or loses time and compensate for it while no external reference is present. Its use of NTP servers can be switched on and off (through chronyc) to support computers with dial-up/intermittent access to the Internet, and it can also act as an RFC1305-compatible NTP server.

Changes: Support for reference clocks (SHM, SOCK, PPS drivers), IPv6 support has been added, Linux capabilities support (to drop root privileges), memory locking support on Linux, real-time scheduler support on Linux, leap second support on Linux, and support for editline have been added. There are many bug fixes and improvements.

Release Tags: Stable, Feature Enhancements, Bug fixes

Tags: Systems Administration

Licenses: GPL

Hardware Central: "During an event late last month celebrating the completion of Oracle's merger with Sun, the company's outspoken chief executive took repeated shots at IBM (NYSE: IBM), saying that Big Blue's systems couldn't scale."

Hardware Central: "During an event late last month celebrating the completion of Oracle's merger with Sun, the company's outspoken chief executive took repeated shots at IBM (NYSE: IBM), saying that Big Blue's systems couldn't scale."