System

http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,1008,page=1 post on nginx forum that provides some insights about central logging / log collections

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)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484667 issue with dropped packets on newer broadcomm ethernet cards, found in dell 1950III servers

http://wiki.codemongers.com/Main main source of Nginx info in English. Documentation, config examples, code cross-reference info.

http://www.sit.auckland.ac.nz/Skiplist_recovery This note explains how you can recover corrupted skiplist databases used by cyrus to keep track of the mailbox status (eg READ/UNREAD email).

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

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/cpu-rings-privilege-and-protection An exellent introduction article about x86 cpus protection mechanism. (run instruction in “rings”) good read.

ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2006-45.pdf a paper from microsoft research comparing perfomance of 2 systems: metadata in db + files in fs vs. meatadata + files as blobs in db. Study uses MSSQL and NTFS. Datasets are in less than 1 GB size.

http://www.halfgaar.net/why-power-failures-are-bad-for-your-data artilcle tells what happens when u pull the plug … in short nothing good will happen, so use UPS! read article for details

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/kernel-boot-process 3rd article – explains how linux kernel boots