Monthly Archives: December 2006

Coffee for the Seven House

Though we looked around for a house near UNSW to rent for a couple of weeks, it turns out that Pants Palais is the ideal crash spot for the Seven Team during linux.conf.au 2007. It’s reasonably close, already houses three of the organisers (Lindsay, Pia and I), packs two bathrooms and is blessed with phat […]

links for 2006-12-04

Database test: dual Intel Xeon 5160
Review of latest Intel gear reveals scalability differences between competing hardware and Open Source database platforms. The clear winners are PostgreSQL and Intel, with some interesting numbers from Niagara.
(tags: database performance postgresql mysql amd intel sun)

Fujitsu Supported PostgreSQL
The FAST team have set up a community/commercial portal for PostgreSQL. I’ve been […]

links for 2006-11-30

Monolog Boxes and Transparent Messages
I passed this link on to Christian Hammond, developer of libnotify and notification-daemon. This is definitely something we should adopt in the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
(tags: design usability gnome notification)