links for 2009-02-26

No, I don’t know what they are. And no, I probably don’t know who you are, either. Really, those two points are immaterial (no offense). As it turns out about, about 46% of you are liberal, 46% of you are conservative, and the rest of you just want your guns, drugs and brothels (here in the US, we call them folks “libertarians”).

This will occupy a bunch of time.

About time.

Snippits from Steve Kemp.

Overview of IT/data center issues from Lucasfilm.

Google-provided tutorials on programming for distributed systems.

A quasi-scientific study on the usefullness (or lack thereof) of unplugging wall warts and other devices when not in use.

Aggregation of sources for cloud computing.

New way of building/setting up databases

Part II

Part I

If I ever switch to using fetchmail instead of straight imaps.

What we strive towards.

Java mode for Emacs.

Discussion of I/O scheduling in Linux.

Comparing performance from several languages using Fibonacci number generation.

Cat shaving. Yak vacuuming.

Yak shaving.

May be useful, may not.

Another tutorial on setting up MySQL clusters.

Handy trick for monitoring NFS mounts in Nagios.

Thoughts from Alva Couch on our industry.

Another code swarm/visualization product/project.

I think I know what I want to start working on next at work....

Need to do this at home.

More cat vacuuming.

We're still in the hundreds of TB range, but petabytes aren't completely out of the question....

Unreal....

One of the greatest tools for sysadmins.

Setting the tab width to something sane.....

Another thing to add to my list of things to do "someday".

Should pick up some of these this spring.

Overview of Oracle internals.

Issues that my current workplace is struggling with now.

That reminds me that I need to put a link to my public linkedin profile on my website/blog.

Notes from the OSCON talk.

Observations on using hadoop on large-scale clusters.

Need to get this pushed out to the servers here....

Various links on setting up MySQL clusters.

Link to various notes about Hadoop Summit.

Useful to keep in mind on those days where I'm scheduled for 6 or more hours worth of meetings.