[PDF] "1000 000 000 files: Scalability limits in Linux file systems" linuxcon2010, Ric Wheeler / Redhat
August 25th, 2010
PDF slides that show what happens if you create a file system with one billion (10**9 ) files
Cowboy Frank’s Webcam Reviews
August 20th, 2010
read on on this site in case you are looking to by webcam for skype or something. Some webcams are better than others, so it's worth to read on for 10 min .
Monitoring Cloud Computing Performance with PRTG: CPU, Disk, Memory Speed Comparison of Amazon EC2 Instance Types – From The CEO’s Blog
August 19th, 2010
Confirms what was noted elsewhere: EC2 small instance is not worth the money, it performs several times slower than medium or large instances
Rackspace Cloud Servers versus Amazon EC2: Performance Analysis
August 19th, 2010
Testing amazon and rackspace instances: kernel compile time and "how much it costs to compile kernel on $instance", and IO tests using IOzone -- in short: rackspace is cheaper/better, about 2x on average across the board. Note about "m1.small" i.e. small ec2 instance -- performance sux, and it is actually cheaper to use a more expensive instance, "medium - cpu" or c1.medium.
GXT on GWT (on Eclipse) – quantschool
August 17th, 2010
Tutorial that shows how to use Eclipse (3.5/3.6) and create a sample project for a web application based on GWT (google web toolkit) and GXT (a mix of Ext JS javascript framework and google web toolkit)
JavaScript Scripting Guide for QuickTime: QuickTime and JavaScript
August 13th, 2010
i.e. how to control QuickTime Plugin via JavaScript
http://downloads.polycom.com/voice/voip/sip_sw_releases_matrix.html
August 12th, 2010
SIP Firmware for Polycom SoundPoint IP Phones and conf. devices
[RUS] Обзор алгоритмов кластеризации данных / Data Mining / Хабрахабр
August 11th, 2010
short article [in Russian ] that covers basics for data clusterization (sorting vectors into groups, aka clusters)
Laurie Santos: How Monkeys Mirror Human Irrationality | This Scientific Life
August 10th, 2010
Thinking in relative terms and "risk aversion" bias -- TED presentation that shows that monkeys do that the same irrational biases that we humans do. (interesting, watch this if you can spare 20 min)
Schneier on Security: A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
August 10th, 2010
social network user data categorization by Bruce Schneier (useful)
