Archive for the 'for:charlesnw' Category
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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 fa…
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
highly recommended read for anyone dealing with security and PHBs. This is by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_J._Ranum
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
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.
Posted in centos, for:charlesnw, for:collidr, management, opensource, virtualization, web, xen | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, May 15th, 2009
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,…
Posted in for:charlesnw, for:collidr, freebsd, howto, Linux, network, networking, optimization, osx, performance, solaris, sysadmin, system, tcp, tcpip, tuning, windows | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, May 8th, 2009
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/ )
Posted in benchmark, Fedora, for:charlesnw, for:collidr, freebsd, Linux, netbsd, performance, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Charlie Miller is the one who broke in to up2date fully patched mac in about 1 minute and won (macbook air ) in the latest Pwn2Own content. Good read if you have 20 minutes.
Posted in for:charlesnw, for:collidr, hacking, Linux, mac, News, OS, osx, Security, vista, windows | Comments Off | permalink
Saturday, March 21st, 2009
comparative review of different DHT scalable systems
Posted in database, development, distributed, for:charlesnw, for:collidr, programming, scalability, storage | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, March 16th, 2009
well, if getting some weird errors from OWA after you (or some app you have installed ) messed IIS config — you can re-install OWA, re-create all owa directories w/out touching exchange installation itself
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
If you need to P2V your windoze install into virtual box vm — you can follow a true-hacker way [http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1404
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
about optimization, speed, scaling web apps. Useful not only to php programmers, but to web app developers in general
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