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TigerVNC

http://tigervnc.org/ likely to be a replacement for tightvnc (better performance )

A look at the MySQL forks [LWN.net]

http://lwn.net/Articles/329626/?format=printable describes recent forks, patch-sets and build of mysql. If you looking at this page deciding which fork of mysql will be better suited for your new project – maybe better to use PostgreSQL instead

Introducing NetBSD 5.0

http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html BSD 5.0 release presentation, includes benchmarks: F10 vs FreeBSD 7.x vs NetBSD 4.0 and 5.0 (also see http://lwn.net/Articles/330909/ )

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/torpig/torpig.pdf

Interesting paper from UCSB with statistics provided by hijacking torpig bootnet for aprox. 10 days.

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http://www.xuheki.com/ new ajax imap webmail client

I waterboard! - Straight Dope Message Board

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448717 read this about water boarding

Analysis from the Bottom Up | The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me

http://www.syleum.com/2009/03/17/healthcare-data-model/ tells about problems with IT in HealthCare and Obama’s electronic records plan from one person’s 1fst hand experience. Make user u read the comments. (allow 30-40 minutes )

Best hardware for maximum throughput and PPS performance | Quagga | Users

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/16802 email threads that provides some pieces of info about linux routing performance (from 2008 )

Linux Software Router : Data Plane Optimization and Performance ...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academypublisher.com%2Fjnw%2Fvol02%2Fno03%2Fjnw02030617.pdf&ei=-4zzSZ38FpywtAP0sLDPCg&rct=j&q=Linux+sofware+router%3A+data+plane+optimizations&usg=AFQjCNE5OzutnNt9SWgOaMcZydC5jLXTwg in-depth linux routing performance evaluation, including code profiling, execution path analysis, etc

Linux as IP Router [vaytta marketing paper, benchmarks are at the end]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=17&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreedomhec.pbwiki.com%2Ff%2Flinux_ip_routers.pdf&ei=yXDzSdjSD4yYtAPG_cXPCg&rct=j&q=linux+routing+performance&usg=AFQjCNGNHX6jWJ7Ybrg8Jod24MMenJYt0g Paper from vayatta with some benchmarks that shows raw ip forwarding performance with various packet sizes and % of packet losses. Basically 2.8 Intel celeron + 1G broadcom (tg3) cards can deliver ~150Mbps on 64b packets limited by CPU