• About Puppet - puppet - Trac
  (tags: via:corriganjc sysadmin unix automation opensource scalability)
• DTrace Tools
  (tags: solaris sysadmin tools via:corriganjc)

At last some nice integration with Thunderbird and google calendar.

This tutorial “Stay in Sync with GCal and Thunderbird.” makes it easy, and in early road testing seems to work very well - which is always nice.

Also featured on Life hacker

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If reading man files off the command line is not your thing - or you might need to print it off, or you simply prefer to view things in a browser, then a handy command line option to man will open the man page you want to read in a browser of choice.

Say you want to open a man file on ls, then simply type:

$man ls --html=firefox

That will open the man file in firefox - nice and easy (and of course firefox can be replaced by browser of choice).

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• Linux.com :: CLI Magic: Tracking system performance with sar
  CLI Magic: Tracking system performance with sar
  (tags: linux performance monitoring)
• 10 Instance Tuning Using Performance Views
  Instance Tuning Using Performance Views After the initial configuration of a database, tuning an instance is important to eliminate any performance bottlenecks. This chapter discusses the tuning process based on the Oracle performance views.
  (tags: oracle performance tuning)

As I caught up with some feed reading, a post by Stephen O’Grady was interesting for a number of reasons. The reason for this post though is to mention Woxy - as mentioned in Stephen’s post.

I looked it up - http://woxy.lala.com/ tuned in - and its great!

Cheers Stephen, always good to find new sources of music!

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With the wonderful Autumn we have been having so far, dishes like “Crêpes, autumn-style”, can only add to its wonderfulness (via delicious:days)!

Look at this… hmmm

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• memcached: a distributed memory object caching system
  memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
  (tags: Architecture dev failover opensource scalability pushmi)
• Gobby
  What is Gobby? ¶ Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.
  (tags: editing Development opensource remote)

• Gestalten mit digitalen Medien
  talk about going one up on being internet famous! “Update of the ring as a status symbol. It shows the number of Google hits you get, when you search for the name of the person who wears it. Incl. a video documentation.”
  (tags: google design vanity)
• Software Is Hard
  (tags: via:murfmind opensource philosophy programming)

• TuxMobil: Linux Applications for Mobile Bluetooth(TM) Cell Phones
  page with selection of bluetooth apps for mobile phones for user with linux
  (tags: linux mobile programming remote software ubuntu bluetooth)

• Science Museum - Launchpad Online - Launchball
  hmm - good for spending some quality time online!
  (tags: web Science cool flash)