Amazon Explains Why S3 Went Down
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITAngostura writes “Amazon has provided a decent write-up of the problems that caused its S3 storage service to fail for around 8 hours last Sunday. It providers a timeline of events, the immediate action take to fix it (they pulled the big red switch) and what the company is doing to prevent re-occurrence. In summary: A random bit got flipped in one of the server state messages that the S3 machines continuously pass back and forth. There was no checksum on these messages, and the erroneous information was propagated across the cloud, causing so much inter-server chatter, that no customer work got done.”
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Tweaking Solid State Drive Performance On Linux
perlow writes "While expensive and shouldn't be used exclusively for primary storage, Solid State Drives perform exceedingly well for things like MySQL databases, provided you tweak your kernel, BIOS, and filesystems accordingly. Here's a few tips to exact excellent performance out of your new $500-$900 on a Linux system."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
More Skype Back Door Speculation.
An anonymous reader writes "According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged. The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations. At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception of IP based services held on 25th June, high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior ministry revealed that it is not a problem for them to listen in on Skype conversations."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
More Skype Back Door Speculation
At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception of IP based services held on 25th June, high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior ministry revealed that it is not a problem for them to listen in on Skype conversations."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Get The CURP
Package: Get the CURP Summary: Generate and validate CURP identifier Groups: PHP 5, Validation, Web services Author: Rafael Rojas Torres Description: This class can be used to generate and validate a CURP identifier. It takes the name, birth day, gender and entity number of a person and generates a CURP identifier (Clave Unica de Registro de Poblacion).
Word Count
Package: Word Count Summary: Find the word that appears more times in a string Groups: PHP 5, Text processing Author: Rahul Description: This is a simple class that can be used to find the word that is present more times in a string.
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How Dell Is Making Ubuntu Linux More Attractive
Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company hopes to steal a page from Apple's playbook and change how it works with hardware makers in an attempt to duplicate its rival's success. Is OS customization the way forward for desktop Linux, and Windows?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Comparison Of Windows XP And Linux/Sugar On The OLPC XO
griffjon writes "OLPCNews has a comparison of Windows XP to the Sugar/Linux OS on the One Laptop Per Child XO-1, based on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential video, touching on video recording, power usage, boot times, and mesh networking. An interesting, if saddening, read."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
DB Connect With XML
It can connect to a given MySQL database host and execute a given SQL query. The class can retrieve the query results and generate a XML document that contains the total number of result set rows, as well the actual result set data.
Extensible Template
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VIA Releases 800 Pages Of Documentation For Linux
billybob2 writes "VIA has published three programming guides that total 800 pages in length and cover their PadLock, CX700, and VX800/820 technologies. The VIA PadLock provides a random number generator, an advanced cryptography engine, and RSA algorithm computations. The VX800 chipset was VIA's first Integrated Graphics Processor, while the CX700 is a System Media Processor designed for the mobile market.