WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. Features – Using WinRAR puts you in the front row when it comes to compression by making smaller archives than the [...]
Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs. Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and has been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines. Python 3.2 [...]
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 [...]
Google Chrome is a free and easy to use browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, easier and safer.Just like the search engine, it is a mix of advanced technology and simple design, which makes it fast and very easy to use. New features is Language tools translation [...]
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
Maxthon is a web browser for Microsoft Windows. The latest release, Maxthon 3, supports both the Trident and the WebKit rendering engines. Maxthon has developed a growing user base since its initial release in 2003, especially in China, so that in 2006, Maxthon 2.0 gained support of several sponsors. In January 2006, Maxthon developers partnered [...]
Twitter has said it had become profitable, disclosing that its live messaging service is carrying 130 million daily tweets, or short messages, from its members. The US-based company, which has been one of the fastest-growing social-networking services, said 40 per cent of tweets are transmitted by mobile devices, typically smartphones. “We’re making money,” chief executive [...]