Archive for November, 2009

11-2009 lb-l: Re: [load balancing] Re : Layer4 and Layer7 TPS

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

discussion on LB-L (load balancing mailing list) about load-balancer performance benchmarks, vendor’s BS and so on.

Interview: Red Hat on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization | MontanaLinux.org

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Some info about redhat new product RHEV (RedHat Enterprise Virtualization), which is based on SolidICE (KVM-based) product from Qumranet, which has been recently acquired by RedHat.

[RUS ]Экскурсия по Международной космической станции / Научно-популярное / Хабрахабр

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

video tour ( in 3 parts, ~ 30 min total) about International Space Station, or ISS.

SCC Winter traction product choices

Friday, November 20th, 2009

this is way better than chains.

scie.nti.st » Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and Secure) Way

Friday, November 20th, 2009

recipe for hosting git repositories

LXR / The Linux Cross Reference

Friday, November 20th, 2009

linux kernel code cross-reference: you can quickly look up a piece of code,, find out in what version it appeared first, and so on.

Apache passenger vs nginx mongrel | Matt-Darby.com

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

comparing 2 popular ways to deploy ruby-on-rails app

ASP and Web Session Management

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

notes about how IIS creates and uses sessions for “classic ASP” (ASP.DLL)

Receive packet steering [LWN.net]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

notes from LWN about RPS patch — a way to distribute incoming traffic coming from 1 source (1 NIC, 1 queue, 1 IRQ line) via multiple CPU by hashing tcp headers and distributing by hash across multiple CPU/Cores

Peter Eisentraut’s Blog: Solid-State Drive Benchmarks and the Write Cache

Monday, November 16th, 2009

read this before rushing to by some SSDs