In a former article I’ve talked about script, to record a shell session from a terminal and a comment contained “ttyrec > script” So what’s ttryrec ?
The dd command on Linux terminal.
dd seem an unfriendly command, but if you start to use it, you’ll see that it’s a powerful command able to do many different things, backup a partition, CD or USB stick for example or do some simple tests on the speed of your disks or your CPU. The man page say: dd is an […]
Ram Disk on Linux
Today Ram disk has saved (at least temporary) one more customer, this time we have moved his Lucene index files from a local disk to /dev/shm; I’m not so sure this is the real solution but at least this gave us better performance and some time to study his application, to see if and where […]
Skype add support to XMPP
Everyone in the Gnu/Linux world (or so i think) has been worried by the news about Microsoft buying Skype, the standard de facto about VOIP. But perhaps there is a hope for a future more open on this software ? Skype 5.5 beta support now the protocol XMPP, this has been added mainly to talk […]
Put your site under Siege
Do you want to test how your new site work under an heavy load ? Put it under siege ! Siege is an http load testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. Siege supports […]