Archive for the ‘Database’ Category
We make heaving use of a Web caching or proxy server for outgoing HTTP requests, and squid is our preferred tool. I implemented squid a number of years ago, and its squid.conf configuration file has historically (or histerically) grown out of reasonable proportions with all manner of access control lists (ACL) strewn throughout. (If you [...]
There's no doubt that e-mail is a vital component in business today, and as such we pay particular attention to our e-mail infrastructure.
We use dedicated systems as Mail Transfer Agents, of course, and run Exim on those, with as little ballast as possible. What we do though, is to give each MTA its own DNS [...]
It is very difficult to work with UNIX/Linux-based systems without having heard of the ubiquitious dbm family of routines, and most people know there are a number of them, including the newer NDBM, GNU's GDBM, SDBM, and the Berkeley DB abstraction functions which also provide DBM compatibility.
There is a new kid on the block: Tokyo [...]
Twitter is fun, and you can play with it.
In spite of the multitude of Twitter clients, some of which can keep some sort of archive of what I've tweeted, I want to collect my tweets and archive them independently of the client I'm using.
I've knocked up a small Perl program which uses the Twitter API [...]
Accessing WikiPedia is easy when you're online, but have you ever wanted to take it along with you for off-line situations? I have, and there is a lovely program to do so for Windows: WikiTaxi. You don't have to install the program; just extract it from its 7zip archive and put it in a convenient [...]
Berkeley DB (BDB) has certainly grown up over the years, from a simple key/value database to a key/value database with transactional capabilities, replication and more. I read The Berkeley DB Book by Himanshu Yadava (Apress), and I was fascinated. The book is very well written; it is always clear, and the author discusses all [...]
After the Sun's purchase of Mysql, I expected something like this:
MySQL will start offering some features only in MySQL Enterprise.
If you haven't yet, it is time to start migrating to a fully Open-Sourced RDBMS that also works on multiple platforms: PostgreSQL.
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Every three or four years, depending on how a company writes off its hardware, you have machines to replace. Now, replacing a box with a few cables on it isn't hard: you rip the old cords out of the wall and throw the lot on the dump. After that, you place the new boxes in [...]