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SSD Streaming at Last.fm
This is the second in a series of posts from the Last.fm engineering team covering the geekier aspects of our recent Last.fm on Xbox LIVE launch. Part one (“The War Room”) is here .
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Linux System Administration Basics
This guide covers almost everything you wanted to know about Linux system administration but were afraid to ask about.
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Reddit decommissions its last Y Combinator funded server
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Changing the game with μTP
μTP or “micro-Transport Protocol” is a new protocol from BitTorrent, Inc. that is at the heart of the new major release of our popular BitTorrent clients “μTorrent” and “BitTorrent Mainline”. It is going to be available as the default transport mechanism in both μTorrent v2.0 and BitTorrent v7.0. So what’s the big…
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Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1
The Haiku Project is proud to announce the availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1, the first official development release of Haiku, an open source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. The purpose of this release is to make a …
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Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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Let's make the web faster
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Performance Tuning PostgreSQL
Tuning your PostgreSQL database is somewhat of a black art. While documentation does exist on the topic, many people still find it hard to get all the power out of their system. This article aims to help.
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On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database
It’s pretty clear to computer science geeks that Directed Edge is supposed to be doing groovy things with graphs. In fact our recommendation engine, and some of the things that are unique about our approach to recommendations, are built on our super-fast graph database. When we went live yesterday with the latest…
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Why is the DOS path character "\"?
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Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit by Aleph One
An excellent (if a bit dated) article/tutorial on exploiting buffer overflow vulnerabilities. It was written by Aleph One for Phrack 49.
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