Atom smasher claims Hadoop cloud migration victory • The Register.

Debian Squeeze, Squid, Kerberos/LDAP Authentication, Active Directory Integration And Cyfin Reporter | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials.

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Drizzle – A database for the cloud.

For Genentech, this was cheap and easy compared to the alternative of buying 10,000 cores for its own data center and having them idle away with no work for most of their lives, Corn says. Using Genentech’s existing resources to perform the simulations would take weeks or months instead of the eight hours it took …

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Nine traits of the veteran Unix admin | Unix – InfoWorld.

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Recently I read an article where the author went through great pains to launch an application on a remote system and display it locally, over an encrypted session. Doing this is actually far, far easier to do than ggarron makes it out to be. It’s no more difficult than a single option in SSH. But …

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“Node is the best of both worlds. We get JavaScript, which is uniquely suited to this kind of evented programming, but we get the performance too.” When he first built Voxer, Ranney ran a test to see how many connections he could open a single server. “I just decided to open as many connections as …

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