Links of interest for 10 Apr 2008 - 29 Apr 2008:

easySMF at OpenSolaris.org - Cool. A web based tool for easy SMF manifest creation. Simply enter the various bits of information, generate the XML file and import it into SMF. Much quicker and easier than writing it all out by hand.
Sun: Trying [...]

Well, after running with ALL options in the wp_options table set to no for autoload for about 3 days, I can say it doesn’t really make much difference. If anything, there may be a slight decrease in performance, but nothing broke that I could see, and there really wasn’t a significant difference in memory usage [...]

Links of interest for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008:

Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too.
Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse [...]

Links of interest for 20 Feb 2008 - 1 Mar 2008:

MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS - It's not been long since the finalisation of Sun's acquisition of MySQL and performance tuning docs are already starting to come to light.
Network in a Box (Creating real network on your laptop) - Create a [...]

Links of interest for 18 Oct 2007 - 7 Nov 2007:

System Profiling 101 : Getting started using sys_diag v.7.04 - A very useful performance gathering script that used Dtrace, amongst other tools to gather performance information
Sun sues NetApp, California style - Well, if the previous case wasn’t enough to let NetApp know Sun are serious, [...]

First, some clarification. YSlow is a pluggin for Firebug, not Firefox. It’s installed as a Firefox pluggin, but it actually enhances Firebug. Accordingly it requires Firebug to be installed.
YSlow adds a new YSlow tab to Firebug and in this tab it rates your page on the scale A to F, based on [...]

Links of interest for 29 May 2007 - 7 July 2007:

Sun eyes supercomputing glory - If Sun can get this out before IBM’s BlueGene/P, we may be in for a good supercomputer battle.
GNU Free Software License Gets Upgrade to Meet Modern Demands -
Germany adopts “anti-hacker” law; critics say it breeds insecurity - Hmmm, I [...]

I’ve had enough of the crap performance, poor customer service, incompetent technical staff and childish forum administrators over at Site5, so I’ve decided to cut my losses and move over to TextDrive.
I think TextDrive will suit my needs more and it’s run by a professional team of techies who seem to know how to treat [...]

With the recent outages and performance issues I’ve been having, I decided to find a tool that I can use to monitor the status of my websites that doesn’t actually rely on these sites. The idea being that I can gather enough stats to take back to Site5 showing them how poor things have [...]

Yesterday, MySQL on the server I host on at Site5 crashed and accordingly rendered this, and several other of my sites useless. I noticed this at about 9am UK time and very promptly logged a service ticket to get this rectified. I waited and waited and waited, and eventually turned to using the forums [...]