To find out how fast the processor is, while in Win95/98, Go to Accessories / System Tools / System Information Click on Tools Select Windows Report Tool Click on the blue Change System File Selections towards the bottom of the window This will perform a short scan of your system files Your processor speed, memory, [...]

dladm is the admin utility for Data-Link Interface which helps to display informarthe like Link Status (UP/DOWN), Speed, Duplex, MTU, VLAN Tagged and crucially statistics of network traffic on each of the interfaces historically as well as in real time. dladm can also configure and admin Link Aggregation on multiple NICs which we will not [...]

A few ideas: Include multiple documents in a single <add> operations. Note: there is no advantage in trying to post a huge number of docs in a single go. I’d suggest going no further than 10 (full-size docs) to 100 (tiny docs). Ensure you are not performing <commit/> until you need to see the updated [...]

If Windows Vista is running slowly, you can speed it up by disabling up to 20 of it’s visual effects: like the transparent glass look, the way menus open or close, or whether shadows are displayed. To adjust the visual effects: 1.  Go to Start >> Control Panel >> Performance Information and Tools 2.  Select [...]

Replication enables data from one MySQL database server (called the master) to be replicated to one or more MySQL database servers (slaves). Replication is asynchronous – your replication slaves do not need to be connected permanently to receive updates from the master, which means that updates can occur over long-distance connections and even temporary solutions [...]

Command Summary Use arp Command mostly used for checking existing Ethernet connectivity and IP address Most common use: arp This command should be used in conjunction with the ifconfig and route commands. It is mostly useful for me to check a network card and get the IP address quick. Obviously there are many more parameters, [...]

Many users, despite having a good Net connection, complain about poor surfing and download speeds. While an organization could pay for additional bandwidth, a better option might be to manage the bandwidth they already have. There are numerous bandwidth management software tools available. In this article we will explore managing network bandwidth using the dummynet [...]

All of the operations considered in this article are operations upon a router, whether that router is a Linux box or Cisco dedicated hardware or some other type of machine. In this chapter I consider the traditional methods of IPv4 routing as using static configurations that are manually input by the network administrator. 1.1 Traditional [...]

Although a PC used for writing doesn’t need to be a high-performance computer, its performance can be improved by a good partitioning scheme. The biggest boost comes from my Paging partition on drive H, which is found on my second physical disk. I use this partition to boost performance in the following ways: Move the [...]

If you are looking for a way to speed up your PHP pages on Apache, this is the software you want to install. Huge performance gains can be had when using this software to precompile and cache your PHP pages, and it is very simple to install.

This is an introductory guide for people learning to use a Linux system. It focuses on command-line usage. This is not because everyone will be doing everything at the command line. On the contrary, there are many useful GUI tools and programs in Linux, and some people will be content to stay with these. However, in contrast to GUI programs, which can be learned largely by “click and try”, the command-line requires some deliberate learning, and reading documentation. The benefit of this investment is that you will learn the tools and tricks of the command line which are in many cases faster, more powerful, and more flexible than any GUI program.