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Microsoft has come out with a number of benchmarks and comparison papers championing the fact that Windows-NT is much better than Linux. I find such comparisons fascinating, but rather than rehash this argument, I've decided to create my own comparison. Not of Windows-NT vs. Linux, that's been done. But of Windows-NT…
We are excited to announce real-time encoding, allowing videos to be encoded while they are still uploading and effectively making encoding 150 times faster!
My recent remark about the future of ChromeOS generated a surprisingly passionate response . Some said that my prediction was obvious and b...
By: Adam Fletcher ( @adamfblahblah ) From ls(1) to the kernel and back again. Too often sysadmins are afraid to dive into the sou...
There are some caveats to this. First, at the moment only FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT can run under EC2; I haven't merged bug fixes back to the stable branches. Second, at the moment FreeBSD only runs on t1.micro instances, for reasons I can't discuss (NDA) but hope will be resolved soon. Third, this code hasn't received very…
1. Nobody really knows how to do it 2. If you think you have a reliable system for doing it, you're probably doing the computer's job -- "...
I'm an incredibly slow programmer (in the hobby projects I do for the love of it, that is). My ratio of thinking to typing must be around 10...
UPDATE: Oracle officially released memcached daemon plugin that talks with InnoDB. I'm glad to see that NoSQL+MySQL has become an official ...
The High Falls hike was my first with the Vancouver branch of the Alpine Club...
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A number of people at Google have stickers on their laptops that read "my other computer is a data center." Having been at Google for almost...
A deep dive into the data structure server: origins, design decisions, feature set, applications, and more.
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Update: Also read A brief update on NUMA and MySQL. The “swap insanity” problem, in brief When running MySQL on a large system (e.g., 64GB RAM and dual quad core CPUs) with a large Inno…
Java is not a first-class citizen in Linux distributions. We generally have decent coverage for Java libraries, but lots of Java software is not packaged at all, or packaged in alternate repositori…
