Typically, when our database is slowing down, we want it to be faster, stronger, bigger and better! With that in mind I'm going to discuss some of the various ways to get there, and hopefully put some of the technology options in perspective.
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LPC: 25 years of X
The X Window System quietly hit its 25th anniversary back in June; it is, undoubtedly, one of the oldest and most successful free software projects in existence.
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Make Linux faster, lighter and more powerful
You might think that our Linux machines are already performing at the fastest possible speed, right? Sadly, this is not always the case. With just a few tweaks and some experimentation, your Linux system can realise your machine's untapped potential.
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Cloud computing with Linux and Apache Hadoop
This article shows you how to use Apache Hadoop to build a MapReduce framework to make a Hadoop Cluster and how to create a sample MapReduce application which runs on Hadoop. You will also learn how to set up a time/disk-consuming task on the cloud.
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Reinstalling Debian on the Self-Reliant Thin Client
Since the CF card serving as the sole disk drive in the Self-Reliant Thin Client (Maxspeed Maxtor converted to use as a full desktop PC) checked out with fsck via a card reader on another PC, I decided to do a reinstall of Debian, this time Lenny instead of Etch.
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NAS Performance Comparison: Windows Server vs. Linux vs. OpenSolaris
The purpose of the benchmark is to compare the performance of NAS software bundled with server operating systems on an identical hardware platform using a highly diversified set of file read, write, search, analysis and delete operations.
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GDB 7.0 released!
"Release 7.0 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous FTP. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs
running on) more than a dozen different processor architectures..."
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Olsrd 0.5.6-r6 released!
"after long months of waiting and small bugfixes we just released the 0.5.6-r6 version. The mayor points of the release are: ..."
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Bazaar 2.0.0: interview with Martin Pool
"The Bazaar project released their version 2.0.0 this week. I spoke to Martin Pool, the project’s lead, about the release and Bazaar generally..."
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I Have a Schedule to Keep - IO Schedulers
The Linux kernel has several different IO schedulers. This article provides an introduction to the concept of schedulers and what options exist for Linux.
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Everybody's seen redirection in bash commands, that's pretty common, but bash also allows you to define redirections when you define functions. This causes the redirections to be evaluated/executed whenever the function is called. This feature doesn't really give you any new features, just another way to express existing features.
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Virtual Users & Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL & SquirrelMail (CentOS 4.8 i386)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database used by Postfix.
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Mini-Course: Manage Users with Quotas
The quotas mini-course is designed to help you implement quotas for users and groups. Quotas are a way to guarantee resources for your users. The guarantee of resources to your users is fundamental to good system administration. When users run out of space there is always trouble and you can be sure as administrator that trouble will be pointed at you.
Read more »Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 released for security
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 fixes three security vulnerabilities which could potentially have left users at risk, albeit a small risk.
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Where to find the various Kongoni source code
"Kongoni provides the source code for all software we distribute as well as the code for all changes made in accordance with the GPL and the spirit of free software..." — see also: GNU Bucks —
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