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Enterprise Networking Planet: "Getting network stats on a Linux machine is not particularly difficult. With tools like sar, Iperf, and vnStat available for nearly every distribution, command-line aficionados can get the low-down on their network with just a few useful commands."

Symantec press release: "In the current spam climate, this index shows that relative to its market share, any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine."

Many PHP applications save files to a local filesystem. Most of the times for the bulk of readers here you'll likely only ever store files using US-ASCII encoding, either because your filenames are simply based on databasefields (as you should try in most cases), or simply because most of your users never have a need for non-english characters.

When you do though, it's important to know how operating systems cope with these characters.

Unsurprising, all of them do this differently.

This Thursday, March 4, the MCS Society will be holding our third Quarterly CompUtion! This fun programming competition is open to all students.

It will be held in University Crossings room 153 at 5PM. Anyone interested is welcome, regardless of skill.

Prizes will be awarded to the winners.

Teams consist of 2-4 members. No registration is required, simply show up and join a team.

We will also be introducing a new event at this competition.

We will be holding a secondary Snake AI competition.

RULES:

This might make me sound like an old fogey, but I really do miss the old games like Space Quest, The Curse of Monkey Island and Return to Zork.

The problem isn't that I don't have the games anymore, but rather that they were designed for my 386 computer running DOS.

Thankfully, I'm not alone in my fits of nostalgia.

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Join the MCS Society for its second Quarterly CompUtition! This is a fun programming competition open to all students.

The event will be held this Thursday, December 3 in University Crossings 153 at 5PM. Anyone interested are welcome, regardless of skill.

Prizes will be awarded to the winners.

Teams consist of 2-4 members. No registration is required, simply show up and join a team.

Prizes (PER TEAM):

Ghacks: "For most lovers of music on the go, the default seems to be the combination of iTunes and iP* (where * is either hone or od).

This is great for Apple and Windows users. But where do Linux users get their new music?"

A.P. Lawrence: "A customer reported that a Linux machine used for ssh access (to in turn give telnet access to an ancient SCO machine) was refusing logins.

I asked him to try logging in as root at the console; he was unable to do so."

LinuxLinks: "There is a wide range of multimedia software available for Linux which turns your machine into a jukebox.

There are even dedicated Linux distributions (such as VortexBox) that turn your computer into a music server.

This article identifies the best free software which enables your Linux machine to act as a music server, distributing digital tracks over a network.

Such software supports popular audio formats such as OGG Vorbis, MP3 and WMA."