Some pockets of hiring exist amid slowdown

WASHINGTON — Even with most U.S. businesses still reluctant to add new employees, some pockets of hiring are emerging in industries such as accounting, information technology and restaurants, government data show.

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If you are wondering what mrepo actually is, YAM has been renamed and changed to mrepo. mrepo builds a local APT/Yum RPM repository from local ISO files, downloaded updates, and extra packages from 3rd party repositories. It takes care of setting up the ISO files, downloading the RPMs, configuring HTTP access and providing PXE/TFTP resources for remote network installations.

Developers at first had mrepo in mind to assign remote network installation. Let us take and example of a laptop where you can install various distributions without the help of a CD/DVD or floppy. mrepo also helps in maintaining centralized update server.

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Postfix is an excellent and powerful mail transfer agent (MTA) like sendmail. You can configure postfix to send outbound mails directly (default) or relay it to another MTA, which could be postfix or sendmail. However you don't want anyone to be able to relay mails through the server. So normally MTA's are configured to relay mails from trusted and/or authenticated networks only (configurable). Another option is available when your local MTA has a fixed IP address. However for all other cases using SASL is a very secure and easily configurable option as detailed below.

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I have significantly improved our site performance in the last month. I did all the site optimization steps by the book, found a lot of new things and fine-tuned existing ideas. There are a couple of good ideas I am yet to implement like using Lighttpd server instead of Apache 2.

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nVidia provides linux drivers from its website. Unfortunately it doesn't work with recent kernels. The installation script fails in multiple ways. After much googling and with tons of diverse advices I found the simple solution.

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