Archive for July, 2009

Openfiler Forums / Installation on Intel SS4200

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

SS4200 is an Intel NAS enclosure for around $200, specs: 1G Ether, 4xSATA HDD, 1.6 intel celeron CPU, 512 MB RAM. Comes with some linux firmware or windows home server. This post tells how to install openfiler on it.

[2009 Presentation on SkyTools from Skype] Image:Moskva DB Tools.v3.pdf – PostgreSQL Wiki

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Link to a page with a download for file:Moskva_DB_Tools.v3.pdf‎ (file size: 488 KB, MIME type: application/pdf)

Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule

Monday, July 27th, 2009

geeks vs. PHB, || why programmers hate meetings

Nabble[May, 2009] – SpamAssassin – Users – learning from IMAP spam collection

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

useful notes and links to various scripts that allow spamassasin bayes learning from IMAP folder rather than from local/network directory.

Watching nginx upstreams with collectd | Be the signal

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

tells how to monitor nginx by tailing it’s logs using collectd. ( same can also be done with munin)

Open Source Database Magazine

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

pdf magazine that covers open-source databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL and alike.

Knowledge Base – How to install VMXNET network adapter and driver for VM’s in ESX Server

Friday, July 10th, 2009

by default vmware installs “pcnet32″ network card which is a software emulation of 100MB card; most ppl switch

YouTube – Sorting Algorithms

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

great sorting video! :-)

A Comparison of Open Source Search Engines « zooie’s blog

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

this is not a strict benchmark, but rather a broad review. Results should be taken as a starting point in research, not as benchmark results.

Appendix F – Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by R. P. Feynman

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

famous and somewhat forgotten so called “minority report” by Richard Feynman on the aftermath of Challenger Shuttle disaster in 1986 that determent that management culture of NASA to responsible for the disaster, and not some particular technical fa…