6.2.2009 von pit.

looks promising, but I have only skimmed through the webpages and looked at the activity in forums/wiki. The ezix project hosts beside other nice projects one called lshw which is a hardware lister. Its a similar project as dmidecode. seems also promising as a free asset management tool all these tools can be used standalone, but as it seems, the project tries to put many of those under one hood

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6.2.2009 von pit.

This report> is a nice read about current research activities in the DB space. Companies like Greenplum and Aster Data have recently integrated mapreduce in memory. Aster Data report in their blog and in white papers about how they’ve implemented the functionality, with an enterprise customer as target in contrary to hadoop and googles mapreduce , which they see more being used by engineers.

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6.2.2009 von pit.

Lisa Nelson from the University of Liverpool provides a script to shutdown idling PC’s called powerdown. It uses two sysinternals tools to achieve this task. I think a good and easy way for oraganizations and private persons to reduce the energy bill. at least worth a try.

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