Why power failures are bad for your data
Friday, July 25th, 2008artilcle tells what happens when u pull the plug … in short nothing good will happen, so use UPS! read article for details
Archive for the 'Computers' Category
Remote Conversion to Linux Software RAID-1 for Crazy Sysadmins HOWTO
Thursday, July 24th, 2008how to convert single disk install to linux software raid1 (this guide also assumes that u don’t have local access)
[x86 booting] The Kernel Boot Process
Wednesday, July 23rd, 20083rd article — explains how linux kernel boots
Not a Guessing Game — Paul Vixie [from ISC/Bind] on recenet DNS hole
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008do a ‘dig TXT porttest.dns-oarc.net’ . || w.out disclosing details Pau confirms that the hole exists, and that !IMPORTANT! NAT/PAT effectively netrualize UDP port randomization fix
Linux.com :: Benchmarking hardware RAID vs. Linux kernel software RAID
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008JULY-2008: adaptec SAS 8 port with 6 SATA HDDs vs MD-RAID for 5, 6 and 10
Benchmarking boot latency on x86
Saturday, July 12th, 2008article explains a few things and post sample code that shows how to instrument x86 boot process
Lingua::EN::Splitter – Split text into words, paragraphs, segments, and tiles – search.cpan.org
Monday, July 7th, 2008perl module that splits text into words, segments. etc. Quality — uknown (i.e. I didn’t test it yet)
Comparison of lightweight web servers – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008the subj. useful.
Leisink Projects – Hiawatha [simple small secure web server ]
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Hiawatha is a webserver for Unix. It has been writting with ‘being secure’ as its main goal.
Linux Hater’s Blog [rants about various things that sacks in linux and OSS in general]
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008muahaaa! but the guy surely knows what he is talking about