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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 13, 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates many of the delays in reading mail by employing techniques like prefetching, but recently we decided to...
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Looking towards IPv6
via Official Google Blog by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by Dave E. Thanks goodness a big corp is addressing their concern about this before it becomes a major problem.Posted by Lorenzo Colitti, Network Engineer, and Erik Kline, IPv6 EvangelistWe care a lot about the health of the Internet. Recently, we've become increasingly concerned that IPv4 addresses — the numbers that computers use to connect to the Internet — are running out....
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A friend connected web
via Official Google Blog by A Googler on May 13, 2008
Posted by Mussie Shore, Product ManagerHave you ever wished you could share information and interact with friends while visiting some of your favorite websites? There are a number of great social networking sites out there that let you stay connected, but the rest of the web typically hasn't been social. Yet.Site owners have been saying for a while that they would love to provide this...
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Chris Siebenmann: Things I have learned about ZFS (and a Linux iSCSI target)
via Planet SysAdmin by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Things I have learned about ZFS (and a Linux iSCSI target)I've been testing ZFS over iSCSI storage as an NFS server recently,which has caused me to discover a number of interesting things.In the order that I discovered them:each ZFS pool has a cache that has a minimum size that it won't shrinkbelow, no matter what the memory pressure is; this is apparently10 MB by default. If you have 2...
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CentOS 4 / Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 iSCSI Installation and Configuration ( iscsi initiators )
via nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog by Vivek on May 13, 2008
Next in series » »« « Previous in seriesI've received a couple of email about setting up iSCSI under CentOS 4 or RHEL ES 4 server. Previously, I wrote about iSCSI under CentOS 5 / RHEL 5 server. Requirements[a] Following instructions tested on RHEL ES 4 and CentOS 4 only. (See RHEL 5/ CentOS 5 / Debian/ Ubuntu Linux specific instructions here).[b] You need following information[c]...
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How To Show Line Numbers In vi / vim Text Editor
via nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog by Vivek on May 12, 2008
How do I display vi / vim text editor line numbers while writing a shell script or c program? How can I turn on or off this feature?Answer to "How To Show Line Numbers In vi / vim Text Editor"Copyright © nixCraft. All Rights Reserved. Support nixCraft when you shop at amazon. Thanks!
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Matthew Helmke: The reason why Ubuntu would modify its release schedule
via Planet Ubuntu by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Mark Shuttleworth presented an interesting idea on his blog yesterday that I would love to see adopted. I think this would be a great benefit to the FOSS world, not just Ubuntu, and I hope that there is some interest among the Red Hat, Novell and Debian crowd, all of whom I respect very highly. The benefits of synchronization would be huge. For what it is worth, I vote a huge +1.There’s one...
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Pete Savage: pr0g80X.vid episode0.3
via Planet Ubuntu by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Taking the most amount of time get out the door so far it’s episode0.3 of pr0g80X.vid. This episode was a real nightmare to edit, however the end result means not only is it looking sweet, but also that I have a much firmer tool for working on 0.4. In this episode we have,New LookNews[01:26] - Short news segmentPimp My Project[03:28] - Bill Reminder gets the first PMP treatmentHugin[06:55] -...
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Zak B. Elep: Apache2 Worker MPM on Low Memory Servers
via Planet Ubuntu by (author unknown) on May 10, 2008
If you're running Apache2 on a memory-constrained system (like in avirtual machine,) you may want to choose the prefork MPM to save memory atthe cost of more process forks. However, if you have more than one CPU on thatsame machine, you may also want to consider using the threaded worker MPMand tweak its MaxClients and ThreadsPerChild settings from the defaultconfiguration.On a typical...
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Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today
via Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey on May 09, 2008
suso writes ""The estimated population of the world will pass 6,666,666,666 today. No doubt an interesting number for people everywhere (not referring to any religion connotations). 5,555,555,555 was passed about 14 years ago. You may not realize that only a 80 years ago, the population of the Earth was only around 2 billion. This shows how the population of the world has increased at an alarming...
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