Friday, October 19, 2007

Install linux without burning CDs/DVDs

The fundamental part of the process of installing linux without burning CDROMs or DVDs ALL the freaking time, is booting your machine into linux from within windows, with GRUB for NT.
This new loader allows booting a linux image using the NT boot loader. Now, selecting the right linux kernel and initrd image is something else. The UNetBootin project claims that it automates this process in an easy way...
My experiences on using these tools will follow....

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

My Embedded Project

Mini-Box Embedded Hardware
This site features many products suitable for developing an embedded (Linux?) system.

Linux Devices

This is actually a news site for embedded linux systems. Quite interesting implementations.

Slashdot: ZFS and NAS
A /. discussion about Network Access Storage (NAS) and cheaper implementations. This is only one part of the picture.

LAMP stuff

Tuning LAMP systems [IBM]

A comprehensive (but simple) article for optimizing PHP with Apache.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Graphics, Games and Drivers

THG's comparison of Nvidia and ATI drivers

2006, mid-July comparative test. Quite intuitive. Conclusions can be:
  1. Nvidia drivers are more feature-full, slightly easier to install and provide more functionality (overclocking, SLI)
  2. Tests showed no significant performance difference (ATI slightly better, Nvidia more consistent)
  3. Gamins is not only for Win32

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Database and Web CMS stuff

PHP, MySQL - Optimising MySQL queries - LXF Wiki

Optimizing MySQL queries, for PHP and not only. General information on SQL queries...

Apache Derby, ODF, DB2 - Portable Document Storage - IBM DeveloperWorks

A fine tutorial for making your own content management system for Open Document Format files, with example code for Apache Derby AS. [Needs IBM account]