At Percona Live last week, someone showed me a graph from their Cacti monitoring system, using the templates that I wrote. It was the buffer pool pages read, written, and created. He asked me if the graph was okay. Shouldn’t there be a lot more pages read than written, he asked? It’s a great question. [...] [...more]
ONLINE ONLY: Richard Stallman – No censorship is good censorship Free software and GNU movement founder, Richard Stallman, is a legend in certain IT circles. He spoke to DAVID RAMLI about why he dislikes the PR industry and how pornography with 16-17 year olds isnât always child porn. Read more on ARNnet [...more]
Linux can reduce your company’s TCO. The bottom line is always important and reducing the total cost of ownership of your computer is always a good thing. One of the reasons Linux TCO is less is because most of the software for Linux is free. In a typical office setting, software vendors such as Microsoft [...] [...more]
SMPlayer and GNOME Mplayer – Two Incredibly Good Mplayer Based Media Players For Tech Drive-in: “If you like mplayer, you will love SMPlayer and Gnome-Mplayer. Both SMplayer and Gnome-Mplayer are really good MPlayer front-ends and they do work great” Read more on Linux Today [...more]
all night long Just looking for a good Gnome distro with up-to-date packages. [...more]
