Management

http://vegan.net/lb/archive/11-2009/0022.html discussion on LB-L (load balancing mailing list) about load-balancer performance benchmarks, vendor’s BS and so on.

http://www.montanalinux.org/interview-red-hat-rhev.html Some info about redhat new product RHEV (RedHat Enterprise Virtualization), which is based on SolidICE (KVM-based) product from Qumranet, which has been recently acquired by RedHat.

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2009/09/different-attitudes-of-computer.html interesting article (and comments, yes, read comments) about what data models actually mean

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!”

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html geeks vs. PHB, || why programmers hate meetings

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:

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.

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 )

http://www.osp.ru/cio/2008/06/4987902/ russian publication “IT Director” [rus: Директор ИС] has published a detailed article about legal status and a variaty issues that surrounds free/open source usage in Russian Federation

http://1-800-magic.blogspot.com/2008/06/back-to-microsoft.html ex. msft employee joined googl, worked for 1 year and went back to msft. You may agree with author or not u may not, but there are some interesting points.