Have you ever wanted to surf the web from your laptop using the internet connection on your cell phone without connecting any wires, and with no hassle goofing around with software? Well guess what, for you happiness is close at hand! Today Sagem Orga made a press release that raised my eyebrows. They have a [...]

Those of you studying the vmstat(8) man page may be wondering what the ‘st’ figure is in the CPU column. The manual refers to it as “Time stolen from a virtual machine“. More specifically: It’s the time the hypervisor scheduled something else to run instead of something within your VM. This might be time for [...]

It’s not the ED you are thinking of. Nope, it’s actually the External Dependency. One piece of advice that I continually dispense is to try to reduce dependencies on remote web sites when coding your own. The problem strikes most dramatically when you run a very busy site, and you have some feed or resource [...]