Archive for February, 2009
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
have u ever tried to get unicode ouput in windows console? You need to change console font to TrueType a and “C:\>chcp 65001″ i.e. change windows code page. Read the link if you want those changes to be permanent
Posted in cmd, console, encoding, for:collidr, prompt, shell, unicode, windows | Comments Off | permalink
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
PITRTools is a set of wrapper scripts that provide warm standby functionality to PostgreSQL. The software is essentially two scripts, cmd_archiver.py and cmd_standby.py. The project is under the BSD license.
Posted in backup, data, database, dba, PITR, postgres, postgresql, python, recovery, replication | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
fully-distributed network file system (fully = no separate meta-data servers ). Supports data redundancy (data can be stripped/mirrored across several nodes), supposed to be high performance. supports encryption and can be embedded in app server (i….
Posted in cluster, distributed, filesystem, for:collidr, fs, Linux, opensource, scalability, storage, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
some python modules from Washington Times ( ! Washington post )
Posted in code, django, opensource, programming, python, webdev | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, February 20th, 2009
tool for testing database performance, jdbc-based, supports a lot of different DBs
Posted in benchmark, database, dba, java, jdbc, performance, postgresql, testing | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, February 20th, 2009
PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle are compared using reasonable hardware setup and TPC-C like test with BenchmarkSQL tool (JDBC ) . This post will probably disappear soon as the author clearly violates oracle license that does not permit publishing benchma…
Posted in benchmark, database, dba, for:charlesnw, for:collidr, mysql, oracle, performance, postgresql, tpc-c | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Apache authentication against AD (via Kerberos). Really easy to do, but make sure you put your kerberos real all in UPPER CASE, i.e. MYDOMAIN.COM. If you are using something like MYDOMIAN, then put it into config as MYDOMAIN.LOCAL
Posted in active, activedirectory, ad, apache, authentication, directory, for:collidr, howto, kerberos, krb5, Linux, Microsoft, Security, shortcut:apache, windows | Comments Off | permalink
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
good note how to write “statement of facts” for the legal proceedings
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
interesting post that provides syntax difference the languages and some discussion about their importance. Good code examples.
Posted in code, code_style, comparison, languages, Perl, programming, python, review, ruby, scripting | Comments Off | permalink