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

http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/414 have u ever tried to get unicode ouput in windows console? You need to change console font to TrueType a and “C:>chcp 65001” i.e. change windows code page. Read the link if you want those changes to be permanent

http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS fully-distributed network file system (fully = no separate meta-data servers ). Supports data redundancy (data can be stripped/mirrored across several nodes), supposed to be high performance. supports encryption and can be embedded in app server (i.e. apache won’t need to go through the kernel for FS access )

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://support.microsoft.com/kb/555092 Apache authentication against AD (via Kerberos). Really easy to do, but make sure you put your kerberos real all in UPPER CASE, i.e. MYDOMAIN.COM. If you are using something like MYDOMIAN, then put it into config as MYDOMAIN.LOCAL

http://boombick.org/blog/posts/48 [RUSSIAN] How to configure Perlball + Heartbeat as HA load balancer with session support for app servers

http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1041965&cid=25891777 interesting post on slahsdot that explains the difference between ethics and morals. (the difference is not obvious )

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/08/09/cache-performance-comparison/ gives you an idea how different caching methods perform. Read it before implementing something

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

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