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"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- --Albert Einstein
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Yahoo claims their 2-petabyte database is world's biggest
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link { computerworld.com }
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Yahoo Inc.'s 2-petabyte, specially built data warehouse is used to analyze the behavior of its half-billion Web visitors per month. Its based on a heavily modified PostgreSQL engine. The year-old database processes 24 billion events a day.
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Visualize your data with gnuplot
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link { ibm.com }
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"Turn your data and functions into professional-looking graphs with Gnuplot 4.0, a freely distributed plotting tool. In this article, get a hands-on guide to gnuplot that emphasizes the idioms you'll need to use this tool effectively."
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Networking
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Howto: Performance Benchmarking a Web server
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link { cyberciti.biz }
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For more information on doing performance benchmarks on your web server: "You can benchmark Apache, IIS and other web servers with apache benchmarking tool called ab."
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What Is Skype
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link { oreillynet.com }
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"Skype lets you make free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has the service. It's free and easy to download and use, and it works with most computers. Skype offers free global telephony and unlimited voice calls with its next-generation peer-to-peer software."
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Linux
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Using Top More Efficiently
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link { linuxforums.org }
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"For desktop users, monitoring resource usage is an important task. By doing this, we can locate system bottleneck, planning what to do to optimize our system, identifying memory leak and so on. The problem is, which software one should use and how to use it according to our need." Check out this article on using top.
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If Linux ruled the world how secure would it be?
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link { zdnet.com }
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The question occurs because of this story from ZDNet's Joris Evans, posted yesterday. It's about two security alerts on Kerberos, the wildly popular network authentication protocol...
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Windows NT
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Longhorn beta will have near-complete Indigo
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link { infoworld.com }
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When Microsoft releases the first beta of its Longhorn version of Windows, it will include a nearly complete version of the product's Web services-based communication framework, code-named Indigo, a Microsoft product manager confirmed this week.
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AutoPatcher XP
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link { betanews.com }
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Not interested in SUS/WUS? Reader Dave Powell suggests checking out this Autopatcher for XP.
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MacOS
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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.2 Update
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link { tidbits.com }
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In a week that saw a spate of Apple updates, the company's largest was Mac OS X 10.4.2, which incorporated a number of fixes to improve reliability and compatibility...
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Developing 64-bit Applications
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link { apple.com }
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Although definately a propaganda piece, this article offers some interesting insight into coding for Apple's new "Tiger" version of MacOSX
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Unix
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Creating your own man pages
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link { unixreview.com }
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An informitive look at creating your own man pages. "A man page is simply a text file with formatting macros, gzipped and stored in one of the appropriate directories. ... When you run man commandname for the first time, man uses groff (or an equivalent) to filter the page, and then displays the formatted page using the default pager (usually less)."
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Using Unknown Passwords
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link { samag.com }
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Do you have a system where multiple administrators need root priviledges but it is a hassle to coordinate changing the password? Here is a novel approach to keeping the security in place, the changes accountable and reduce some unnecessary coordination.
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