Archive for July, 2010
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
full specs on HP L2465 monitor, older HP high quality 24″ monitor, currently sold “certified” (aka used) at various places around $200-250 ( example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176144&Tpk=LP2465 ) . [PS: current version…
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Interesting interview with Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, the authors of “Higher Education”
Posted in academia, article, blog, college, education, for:collidr, for:Inulia, for:ovchin, politics, research | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, July 30th, 2010
(for Russian-speaking people)I’m in my kitchen, listening the radio, I hear: Joe Palca takes interview from Anna Skalka
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
(for Russian-speaking people)I’m in my kitchen, listening the radio, I hear: Joe Palca takes interview from Anna Skalka
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Full Text Search benchmark, Oracle vs Postgres, on 2x Quad core Xeon, 8G RAM, 2 SSDs x RAID 1. Pg is being slightly faster when query contains several words, once word count increases, oracle leaps ahead (suggesting a more mature FTS implementation)
Posted in benchmark, comparison, database, dba, Linux, oracle, performance, postgresql, search | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Netfilter: Making large iptables rulesets scale
Posted in iptables, kernel, Linux, network, performance, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, July 16th, 2010
A great presentation [from google] about how people interact socially in the real life and how current social networks represent them. (Needs about 30 min to read)
Posted in facebook, for:collidr, for:Inulia, google, presentation, research, social, socialmedia, socialnetworking | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, July 12th, 2010
website of the association of communication service providers and their vendors ( virizon, L3, cisco and the likes ]
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
http://www.pgcon.org/2010/schedule/attachments/141_PostgreSQL-and-NoSQL.pdf
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Company provides Virtual PBX – asterisk “in the cloud”, with HTTP/XML/REST API (business-level google voice)
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