Making Apache Spark Four Times Faster

MySQL Performance Blog

This is a followup to my previous post Apache Spark with Air ontime performance data. To recap an interesting point in that post: when using 48 cores with the server, the result was worse than with 12 ...

15 January 2016

The best Bluetooth keyboard

Engadget

By Kimber Streams This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a list of the best technology to buy. Read the full article here. After testing 21 keyboards over the past year, we found that the Logitech K380 Multi-Device Bluetooth Keyboa...

15 January 2016

My Experience With the Great Firewall of China

Hacker News

My Experience With the Great Firewall of China When I recently visited China for the first time, as an InfoSec professional I was very curious to finally be able to poke at the Great Firewall of China with my own hands to see how it works and how easy…

14 January 2016

OpenSSH CVE-2016-0777: Details and Mitigation

MySQL Performance Blog

Earlier today advisories were sent out regarding OpenSSH versions 5.4 through 7.1., informing users about a security bug in the software. In essence, the advisory instructed people to add the [crayon-5698c0cf4e673581883198-i/] option to their ssh_config…

14 January 2016

Performing IMAP queries via curl

Debian GNU/Linux System Administration Resources

This site is now 100% read-only, and retired. Posted by Steve on Thu 14 Jan 2016 at 08:27 Most people are familiar with curl, the tool that allows you to make HTTP-requests, and FTP-requests, via the command-line. Recently it gained the ability to…

14 January 2016

Show HN: Learn Flux from an extremely simple demo

Hacker News

This demo helps you learn Flux architecture. It is inspired by Andrew Ray's great article Flux For Stupid People. Flux, invented by Facebook, is an architecture pattern for building client-side web applications. It is similar to MVC architecture, but…

13 January 2016

SCP parameters you should know about

Hacker News

Linux administrator should be familiar with CLI environment. Since GUI mode in Linux servers is not a common to be installed. SSH may the most popular protocol to enable Linux administrator to manage the servers via remote in secure way. Built-in with SSH…

12 January 2016