Two Mad Geeks

There are many, many different ways to back up your Ubuntu system. This site will look at two of them, one of which is a full system backup and the other is a way to copy folders and files.

Link: ArsGeek

Check out these cool charts! We show you the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled from your site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot’s downloaded per day, and the average time it took Googlebot to download pages. Webmaster tools show each of these for the last 90 days.

Link: Google Webmaster Central

There’s always something new and progressive in the free and open source software universe. Here’s a roundup of some recent worthy happenings in the fun worlds of iptables and VoIP: getting SIP through iptables NAT firewalls, adding new modules to iptables with Patch-O-Matic, monitoring iptables in real-time, and a look at the excellent AstLinux.

Link: Enterprise Networking Planet

With old-school table layout methods, vertical positioning is a piece of cake. With CSS layout, it ’s a piece of something else. This article shows how to regain control of footers and other vertically positioned layout elements via CSS, JavaScript, and the DOM.

Link: A List Apart