Features

A Guide to Using LZO Compression in Hadoop  by Arun Viswanathan

How to start implementing MapReduce programs that handle LZO compressed data.

Introducing Vagrant  by Jay Palat

Manage multiple development environments easily using Vagrant.

Writing Samba VSF Modules  by Richard Sharpe

Extend Samba's functionality with VSF Modules

Indepth

Tarsnap: On-line Backups for the Truly Paranoid  by Andrew Fabbro

Tarsnap's Linux-friendly encrypted backup service makes keeping your data in the cloud a snap.

Columns

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Database Integrity and Web Applications  

Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Scripting Lite: Shell Aliases and Functions  

Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   N900 with a Slice of Raspberry Pi  

Shawn Powers' The Open-Source Classroom   Mirror, Mirror, Down the Hall  

Doc Searls' EOF   Debugging Free Markets That Still Aren't  

Your Choice of Captor an Excerpt from Doc Searls' The Intention Economy    

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