LINUX MAGAZINE November 2010

NEWS 8 NEWS Find out why the MeeGo mobile Tuning MySQL is in a good Database performance depends on a number of factors you position to take off. must identify, analyze, and fine-tune in a systematic way. 9 DELTACLOUD Learn how to test, measure, and optimize your MySQL Red Hat releases its cloud APIs installation from the bottom up by looking at your into the open source wilderness. hardware, operating system, and database. 10 MOZILLA Mozilla announces the Firefox 4 Beta and Fennec Alpha releases and a new gaming platform. MySQL Tuning 18Take a holistic approach to 11 UTOUCH analyzing and optimizing your MySQL Shuttleworth talks about the new database. gesture suite for touch devices. 12 GALAXY TAB TCP Tuning Tips 28Return to the fundamentals Samsung reveals its Android then apply some simple 2.2-powered tablet. techniques to keep your 14 TECH TOOLS network humming. Useful tools for the tech domain. Miro 32Breaking news 24/7 can leave Speeding Up Python you feeling behind the times before 36Stop waiting on your code to you get up in the morning. The Miro execute. Learn about some cool tools SERVICE media aggregator helps you keep up. for speeding up your Python apps. 3 Comment 15 DVD 16 Letters Community Notebook 96 Featured Events 84 Cache 88 Anna Torvalds Then and now: Rikki looks back 10 Take the Torvalds tour of Helsinki. 98 Preview years to the first issue. 90 Nils Torvalds 85 Doghouse Early influences. Magazine ISSN 1471-5678 Memory doesn't always serve us Linux Magazine is published monthly well, so maddog sets us straight. 92 Projects on the Move by Linux New Media Ltd, Manchester, Democratic decision making; data England. Company registered in England. 86 Kernel News sharing using a Git repository.

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HIGHLIGHTS MYSQL PYTHON iTUNES PHATCH 18 Analyze the individual 36 FInd out why the 48 New HTML5 features 76 Watermark your web hardware and software Python language is so and a little Python let galleries with GIMP, components of your slow and what you can you stream your music ImageMagick, and MySQL database. do to speed it up. over the Internet. Phatch. FEATURES LINUXUSER 68 Command Line A number of tools helps you GNU Parallel schedule automatic backups and other system tasks. 44 Put those CPU cores on your network to good use with this 72 Clementine command-line tool. This media player manages your collection and plays your tunes, too. Accessing iTunes 76 Phatch 48 Use the backup file of your iTunes Fix your photos fast with this library to stream your music over batch-mode image processing tool. the Internet. 80 Workspace: OOo Extensions 41 Charly: GestióIP 48 Accessing Your iTunes Create and package OpenOffice Organize your IP addresses. Library extensions from scratch. Stream music over the Internet. 42 Security Lessons: Disposable Computers 58 Ask Klaus! Create then wipe a bootable USB Knoppix creator Klaus Knopper drive for sensitive jobs online. answers your Linux questions. 44 GNU Parallel 62 : RRDtool Multi-core processing from the An open source library with Holt- command line. Winters forecasting.

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