RackTables
Friday, August 21st, 2009“Racktables is a nifty and robust solution for datacenter and server room asset management. It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration and much much more!”
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Wireless Internet: BlackBerry Curve as Bluetooth Modem for OS-X Mac • Perishable Press
Friday, August 14th, 2009how to use your mobile phone as a bluetooth modem for max os x and connect to AT&T 3G network
Openfiler Forums / Installation on Intel SS4200
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009SS4200 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.
Nabble[May, 2009] – SpamAssassin – Users – learning from IMAP spam collection
Sunday, July 26th, 2009useful notes and links to various scripts that allow spamassasin bayes learning from IMAP folder rather than from local/network directory.
YouTube – Sorting Algorithms
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009great sorting video! 
Appendix F – Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by R. P. Feynman
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009famous 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…
Tenable Network Security: Ranum’s Rants – The Anatomy of Security Disasters
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009highly recommended read for anyone dealing with security and PHBs. This is by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_J._Ranum
[RUS] PostgreSQL vs MySQL
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009test uses db schema and usage pattern from popular blog-hosting site. Benchmark uses optimized queries
Karesansui Project [XEN Web Management, GPL, RHEL/CentOS 5.x Compartable ]
Thursday, May 28th, 2009web management for XEN, including installing, monitoring and console. Based on libvirt, written in python, ,uses JQuery for interface, tightvnc-java for console, SQLite [default], MySQL, PostgreSQL as database.
TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]
Friday, May 15th, 2009Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link,…