Top-Ten IT Issues, 2010 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

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Jun 112010
 

Top-Ten IT Issues, 2010 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE: “Administered by the EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee, the electronic survey was conducted in December 2009.1 Survey participants — typically CIOs of EDUCAUSE member institutions — were asked to select the five most-important IT issues out of a selection of twenty-seven in each of four areas: (1) issues that are critical for strategic success; (2) issues that are expected to increase in significance; (3) issues that demand the greatest amount of the campus IT leader’s time; and (4) issues that require the largest expenditures of human and fiscal resources.”

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Review: LuckyBackup for Linux systems | Product Spotlight | TechRepublic.com

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Jun 102010
 

From TechRepublic.com…

Review: LuckyBackup for Linux systems | Product Spotlight | TechRepublic.com: “Backups are a crucial aspect of any PC users work. No matter if you are a home user who uses the PC for home banking or a data center administrator who depends upon backups as the go-to failsafe for petabytes of company data, without a backup you could find yourself dead in the water.”

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Five Linux performance commands every admin should know

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May 202010
 

Five Linux performance commands every admin should know: “Managing performance on Linux hosts is often seen as a black art. Many system administrators rarely venture beyond the simple or resort to throwing hardware, more memory and more CPU, at perceived performance problems. The use of a few simple commands, however, can reveal a huge amount of detail about your host and may help you resolve your performance issues quickly and easily.”

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Desktop Fun: 21 Cool Ubuntu Wallpapers – How-To Geek

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May 172010
 

From HowToGeek.com…

Desktop Fun: 21 Cool Ubuntu Wallpapers – How-To Geek: “Desktop Fun: 21 Cool Ubuntu Wallpapers

Ubuntu 10.04 was released last month, and comes with some breath taking design enhancements, and has some fabulous art work integrated into it. We’ve put together a collection of wallpapers to make it more customized.”

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The Keyboard Shortcuts of Ubuntu 10.04 – Keyboard Shortcuts – Lifehacker

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May 072010
 

From Lifehacker.com…

The Keyboard Shortcuts of Ubuntu 10.04 – Keyboard Shortcuts – Lifehacker: “The free Ubuntu Linux operating system finally has some decent, condensed, official documentation, but curiously missing are the changes to keyboard shortcuts that control the desktop. The Tombuntu blog helpfully lists the multi-desktop, window management, and accessibility key combos in Ubuntu 10.04.”

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Using Ubuntu as a thin client | Linux Journal

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May 072010
 

From LinuxJournal.com…

Using Ubuntu as a thin client | Linux Journal: “Over the last few years there have been quite a few articles discussing the uses and advancements of the rdesktop application for Linux users. Rdesktop is an application designed to allow Linux users to access the remote desktop feature of Windows based machines, specifically servers. When my company made the decision to implement a terminal server to ease the network effects of a critical application, I began investigating other practical applications for it’s use in a mixed Windows/Linux environment. I set out to determine if a Linux based thin client would be practical. As it turns out, not only was it practical, it was also exceedingly easy.”

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