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http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2009/07/solid-state-drive-benchmarks-and-write.html read this before rushing to by some SSDs

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/117532.html article by Matthew Garrett that actually explains how ACPI works

http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2009/11/understanding_the_tls_renegoti.html explains Marsh Ray’s attack in details, pls patch to fix the TLS protocol

http://news.electricalchemy.net/2009/10/cracking-passwords-in-cloud.html article tells you that using elcomsoft tools, you can brute-force PGP pass-phrase in ~120 days for ~$9K on 10 EC2 instances.

http://files.agoragames.com/jason/railsconf09/ notes about [web] infrastructure monitoring from well-known game company (call of duty, gitar hero).

http://www.fishpool.org/post/2008/03/31/Optimizing-Linux-I/O-on-hardware-RAID explains use linux IO scheulers with presence of smart RAID controllers.

http://www.opennet.ru/base/net/adsl_shaper.txt.html shaper script for ADSL< -->Ethernet gateway

http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx website that does blacklist lookups.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc interesting video, something you ought to know, watch this, it’s 50 min log. Video explains with details what what is the 5th amendment and tells why you should not talk to the police

http://highscalability.com/yahoo-s-pnuts-database-too-hot-too-cold-or-just-right writeup on yahoo PTUNS (distributed database ). Also, see the original paper if you are interested.