Making a backup reminder script

... using at, xdialog and rsync.

Eight tips to start with Python

(from DZone.com)

Number Theory for Programmers, Part 1

(from DZone.com)

The Morningside - The Wind, The Trees and The Shadows of The Past

Free download, and it got 5 stars on its first review on ProgArchives.com.

Edit: Warning - cookie monster. :-(

Alusa Fallax - Intorno Alla Mia Cattiva Educazione

Album page on ProgArchives.com. Features two streaming songs.

A quick guide to DVD authoring

Dev Shed

Open Source Web Development Tutorials

The Annotated Jethro Tull Lyrics Page

How To Extract Your Own DNA

Ubuntu in a Microsoft world: Part 1 - Email and Calendar

How to set up Thunderbird or Evolution to use an Outlook Mail Server.

(from LifeHacker.com)

Lego at Pompeii

(from here)

VirtualBox.org

Free, open-source virtualization software for Linux and Windows (and MacOS and, soon, OS/2...).

(from Linux.com)

Suggestions on how to manage swap in Linux

I don't think any scheduler will help you with that. The slowness is due to the swapping in and out from the disk, and that's going to be limited by the horribly slow speed of the disk.

You could tweak things to make this a less likely ocurrence though.

Disable overcommit by echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory. No more OOM killer killing some random unrelated process. Memory allocations will fail and programs will be able to handle that correctly.

Set some memory limits in /etc/security/limits.conf

Avoid having too much swap space. It's awfully slow, if you're using it too much all you'll manage is to run more things slower.

Get more RAM, it's cheap. If you're regularly swapping then you definitely should.

(from a comment in this thread on /.)

Anatomy of the Linux kernel