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Posts from 2005
ZFS is upon us!
It looks like the Solaris engineers got ZFS integrated into Solaris express! I can't wait to play with this!!!
$ read more →Monitoring OS X CPU, disk, network and memory resources
I recently came across Menu Meters while reading the OS X discussion forums on apple.com. This is a nifty addition to the OS X menu bar, and allows you to get CPU, disk, memory and network utilization metrics with a simple click of the mouse (or a quick squint of the eyes). I wish I would have found this sooner!
$ read more →mod_deflate benchmarks
I came across a cool article that shows the bandwidth savings that can be achieved by using Apache's mod_deflate module. Since people are still using 56k modems to connect to the Internet, compressing content can decrease the time it takes to render pages on dial-up connections.
$ read more →Finding cuting edge alternative music
While perusing Radio Wazee today, I came across the section of their main page with new band and song reviews. If you are into alternative music and sick of the main stream music we get on FM radio, I would highly recommend zipping over to radio wazee and giving them a listen.
$ read more →Sectioning data with awk
I was working on a shell script last week and wanted to grab just the CPU section from the Solaris prtdiag(1m) output. I was able to perform this operation with awk by checking $0 for one or more "=" characters, and then setting a variable named SECTION to the value contained in the second position variable. If this variable was equal to the string CPUs, all subsequent lines would be printed up until the next block of "=" characters were detected. The awk script looked similar to the following: I really dig awk!
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