Monthly Archives: December 2006

Coffee for the Seven House

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-12-04

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-11-30

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

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)

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