Archive for July, 2009
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
SS4200 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.
Posted in for:collidr, hacking, hardware, hdd, home, howto, nas, storage | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Link to a page with a download for file:Moskva_DB_Tools.v3.pdf (file size: 488 KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
Posted in database, dba, development, postgresql, programming, python, skype, tools | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, July 27th, 2009
geeks vs. PHB, || why programmers hate meetings
Posted in business, culture, development, management, meetings, productivity, programming, schedule, software, time | Comments Off | permalink
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
useful notes and links to various scripts that allow spamassasin bayes learning from IMAP folder rather than from local/network directory.
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
tells how to monitor nginx by tailing it’s logs using collectd. ( same can also be done with munin)
Posted in apache, backend, monitoring, munin, nginx, performance, web2.0 | Comments Off | permalink
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
pdf magazine that covers open-source databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL and alike.
Posted in CouchDB, database, db, drizzle, hadoop, magazine, mysql, opensource, pdf, postgresql | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, July 10th, 2009
by default vmware installs “pcnet32″ network card which is a software emulation of 100MB card; most ppl switch
Posted in network, networking, sysadmin, virtualization, vmware | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
great sorting video!
Posted in algorithm, algorithms, big, buble, for:collidr, fun, merge, programming, shortcut:sort, video, _O | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
this is not a strict benchmark, but rather a broad review. Results should be taken as a starting point in research, not as benchmark results.
Posted in benchmark, comparison, database, development, lucene, opensource, performance, programming, search, searchengine | Comments Off | permalink
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
famous 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…
Posted in design, engineering, for:charlesnw, for:collidr, management, reference, reliability, science, Security | Comments Off | permalink