µTP is a new lightweight BitTorrent protocol used by µTorrent starting in µTorrent version 2.0 – it makes incredibly efficient use of network bandwidth while reducing network problems. µTP works to maximize network throughput while reducing network latency and congestion – it is designed to slow itself down when the network is overloaded (when sending and receiving [...]
VirtualBox 4.0.4.70112Â the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software [...]
Scribus is a free software, which allows you to create professionally looking documents in PDF, Postscript, and other formats. It brings professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows. It is powerful software that helps you create great looking documents of all kinds. It also comes with a lot of support options to [...]
Once you have Tomcat up and running, you will likely want to do some performance tuning so that it serves requests more efficiently on your computer. In this chapter, we give you some ideas on performance tuning the underlying Java runtime and the Tomcat server itself. The art of tuning a server is a complex [...]
Google ’ve created a U.S. Presidents Showcase to map the birthplaces of all 44 presidents, and provide details about their presidential terms, using the Google Earth plug-in. You can also see the states that voted during each president’s election by clicking on the tours in the left column of the showcase. In addition to the U.S. [...]
Native Client is an open-source technology for running native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps. We’ve released this project at an early stage to get feedback from the open-source community. We believe that Native Client technology will help web [...]
Amazon EC2 makes it easy to get a large number of servers on which to run MySQL, but there are many choices to be made about the server and storage to use. There are 5 types of servers: small, large, extra-large, high-cpu medium and high-cpu extra-large. There are at least two types of storage: local disk and EBS. [...]
This session focuses on ZFS performance with MySQL, and explores its suitability for deploying workloads based on MyISAM and InnoDB. ZFS performance relative to other file systems and the impact of ZFS compression on MySQL performance will also be examined. The ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) and the second level Adaptive Replacement Cache (L2ARC) benefit from low latencies, and benchmark results will be presented [...]
Slave lag is the typical problem that limits scalability of MySQL Replication. Learn best practices … for scalable, lag-free MySQL Replication
The memcached Functions for MySQL are User Defined Functions (UDFs) that give you the power … to interact with both MySQL and memcached in one place
Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs has terminal pancreatic cancer and may live for just six more weeks, a media report said Thursday. The 55-year-old Jobs in January announced that at his request, the board of directors granted him a medical leave of absence so that he could focus on his health. Since then, employees [...]
Mobile phone game Ultimate Cricket 2011 World Cup Edition “has launched just in time for the real Cricket World Cup which is due to start on February 19. Accompany the tournament hosted by India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the mobile game has been developed by Mumbai’s Synqua Games, and will be available for BlackBerry and Nokia [...]
Java software allows you to run applications called “applets” that are written in the Java programming language. These applets allow you to have a much richer experience online than simply interacting with static HTML pages. Java Plug-in technology, included as part of the Java 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (JRE), establishes a connection between popular [...]
MetroTwit is a slick Twitter client for Windows. Get the whole story Follow the tweet breadcrumbs to read the entire Twitter conversation back-and-forth without missing a beat. Stay in the know Not sure what those ambiguous hashtags mean? Be in the know of all the fun trends on Twitter with convenient access to What The [...]
Bringing the performance, scalability and power efficiency of the SPARC T3 to the communications market, Oracle today announced two new carrier-grade, NEBS Level 3- certified servers – Oracle’s Netra SPARC T3-1 rackmount server and Oracle’s Netra SPARC T3-1BA ATCA blade server.The new Netra SPARC T3 servers further expand Oracle’s complete portfolio for the communications industry, which [...]