RackTables

http://racktables.org/ “Racktables is a nifty and robust solution for datacenter and server room asset management. It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration and much much more!”

Wireless Internet: BlackBerry Curve as Bluetooth Modem for OS-X Mac • Perishable Press

http://perishablepress.com/press/2007/06/12/blackberry-curve-as-bluetooth-modem-for-mac/ how to use your mobile phone as a bluetooth modem for max os x and connect to AT&T; 3G network

Openfiler Forums / Installation on Intel SS4200

https://forums.openfiler.com/viewtopic.php?pid=9883#p9883 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.

Nabble[May, 2009] - SpamAssassin - Users - learning from IMAP spam collection

http://www.nabble.com/learning-from-IMAP-spam-collection-td23580921.html useful notes and links to various scripts that allow spamassasin bayes learning from IMAP folder rather than from local/network directory.

YouTube - Sorting Algorithms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INHF_5RIxTE&feature=related great sorting video! :-)

Appendix F - Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by R. P. Feynman

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt 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 failures. Starting quote:

Tenable Network Security: Ranum's Rants - The Anatomy of Security Disasters

http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2009/03/ranums-rants-the-anatomy-of-security-disasters.html highly recommended read for anyone dealing with security and PHBs. This is by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_J._Ranum

[RUS] PostgreSQL vs MySQL

http://www.samag.ru/art/07.2007/07.2007_02.html test uses db schema and usage pattern from popular blog-hosting site. Benchmark uses optimized queries

Karesansui Project [XEN Web Management, GPL, RHEL/CentOS 5.x Compartable ]

http://karesansui-project.info/wiki/karesansui/En_tutorial web management for XEN, including installing, monitoring and console. Based on libvirt, written in python, ,uses JQuery for interface, tightvnc-java for console, SQLite [default], MySQL, PostgreSQL as database.

TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]

http://fasterdata.es.net/TCP-tuning/ Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link, i.e. the situation when you normally use specialized networking hardware (read: cisco)