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http://lwn.net/Articles/321702/ Message to Kernel Mailing List about differences between XEN and KVM .

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5145028&postcount=19 “sudo VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/MaxGuestResolution 1920,1200”

http://blogs.nologin.es/slopez/archives/17-Benchmarking-Databases-I.-Volatile-Storage..html 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 benchmark results w/out permissions

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/magazine/dd228986.aspx tehcnet article on providing authentication against AD using samba/winbind

http://blog.foppiano.org/2007/12/11/installing-source-package-with-yum/ in the essence it is:

http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2008/06/29/linux-on-hyper-v.aspx Blog posts shows some screenshot of various linux distros running under MS new virtualization solution, similar to XEN. Hyper-V used special network device (not sure about block device, i.e. disk ), so linux needs a

http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=606215&pg=3 example: REVOKE SELECT ON pg_catalog.pg_proc, information_schema.routines FROM public

http://conshell.net/wiki/index.php/Xen_Hosting_Providers list of hosting providers that host XEN (PV) images. /some host custom images/

http://fscked.org/blog/fully-automated-active-https-cookie-hijacking a note from security ppl that session/login cookies that normally delivered via https have to be explisidly marked as “secure” so they only delivered via https. Otherwise bad ppl can hijack them.

http://openbts.sourceforge.net/background.html basically how to build your own gsm cell or private cellullar network on a budget. Very interesting project, requires radio engeening knowlegde and familiarity with telecom and gsm stuff. Also see http://openbts.sourceforge.net/ for links about field tests at Burning Man 2008