The “strength” of Google on the WWW seems to be like (much bigger?) the “strength” of M$ on the Operating System’s World. Every Web Developer, Blogger, WWW-Interested-People have to check the ranking on google of owned websites. What do you think about Big G.? Ah, the Dilbert String:
From Think Secret: May 5, 2006 - Following up on our report earlier this week concerning the MacBook’s May availability, sources have nailed down next Tuesday, May 9, as the introduction day for the Intel-based laptop. … Update - May 6, 2006 Additional sources have confirmed the MacBook’s announcement this Tuesday. Further, sources report that the MacBook will be thinner than current iBooks, will be available in both black and white configurations, and will likely cost slightly more than previous iBook models—not unlike the price increase Apple’s Mac mini saw with its transition to Intel processors. ...
EN - Nemo, Manu and I need an help from all of you: we ask your help to fly away from Italy. Our families cannot help us to reach the amount of money that we need to take up our residence in another, better, country. For this reason we have created Set Me Free Now. IT - Nemo, Manu ed Io abbiamo bisogno di un aiuto da tutti voi: noi chiediamo il vostro aiuto per volare via dall’Italia. Le nostre famiglie non possono aiutarci per raggiungere la quantità di denaro necessaria per prendere residenza in un altro/migliore paese. ...
Update for the new “D"heme of this/my homepage/blog. New :hover style for the h3 header of sliding div Added the class img.wp-smiley for smiles in posts I have enlarged the left column and restricted the center column Added a nice background for the blockquote element What it lacks? Primary, a admin menu using the style of the “Credits toggle” on the bottom (had you seen it, don’t you? ;) )
After the coronation as the best (imho ;) ) file-system for *nix systems, BitUbique post an howto defragment an XFS partition. Simplest and fastest way? sudo xfs_fsr -v /dev/hda1
IBM publish another Tutorial on the LPI Exam 202. This time it’s on the “making of a Web Server” (title “Web Services” is not correct, IMHO). In this tutorial (the fourth in a series of seven tutorials on exam 202 topics), David Mertz discusses how to configure and run the Apache HTTP server and the Squid proxy server, and in doing so, continues preparing you to take the Linux Professional Institute Intermediate Level Administration (LPIC-2) Exam 202. ...
Nemo translated (in Italian, of course) an interesting comparison between the most diffused filesystems on Linux (and not only on The Penguin): Ext2/3, Reiserfs 3, XFS, JFS. The original article was posted by hansivers on the Debian Administration Website. Conclusion? XFS rulez!!! And I’m on the same: I start to use XFS average 2 years ago… and some big partitions on my HD still demonstrate optimal performance. Good Job, SGI!
Finally, I had a little amount of time to finish up my new theme. Dheme: only a name for you, right now. But I want to make it downloadable in the future. Actual version is 0.1: under heavy-development. Dheme borns with 3 focuses: eye-candy, usability, richness. Animations of Dheme are builded with the beautiful moo.fx library. Do you like it? ;)
The Google Summer of Code http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html Italian informations? Look Neminis.org and netminers.
The 2.6 Linux Kernel included selectable IO schedulers. IO Schedulers control the way the kernel commits reads and writes to disks - the intention of providing different schedulers is to allow better optimsation for different classes of workload. Without an IO scheduler, the kernel would basically just issue each request to disk in the order that it received them. This could result in massive thrashing of the disk subsystem - if one process was reading from one part of the disk, and one writing to another, it would have to seek back and forth across the disk for every operation. The schedulers main goal is to optimise disk access times. An IO scheduler can use the following techniques to improve performance: Request merging The scheduler merges adjacent requests together to reduce disk seeking Elevator The scheduler orders requests based on their physical location on the block device, and it basically tries to seek in one direction as much as possible. Prioritisation The scheduler has complete control over how it prioritises requests, and can do so in a number of ways All IO schedulers should also take into account resource starvation, to ensure requests eventually do get serviced!… ...