Summary: The process of booting a Linux® system consists of a number of stages. But whether you’re booting a standard x86 desktop or a deeply embedded PowerPC® target, much of the flow is surprisingly similar. This article explores the Linux boot process from the initial bootstrap to the start of the first user-space application. Along the way, you’ll learn about various other boot-related topics such as the boot loaders, kernel decompression, the initial RAM disk, and other elements of Linux boot.
$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud
The cluster, announced publicly this week, was created for an unnamed “Top 5 Pharma” customer, and ran for about seven hours at the end of July at a peak cost of $1,279 per hour, including the fees to Amazon and Cycle Computing. The details are impressive: 3,809 compute instances, each with eight cores and 7GB of RAM, for a total of 30,472 cores, 26.7TB of RAM and 2PB (petabytes) of disk space. Security was ensured with HTTPS, SSH and 256-bit AES encryption, and the cluster ran across data centers in three Amazon regions in the United States and Europe. The cluster was dubbed “Nekomata.”
via $1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud.
Welcome to MariaDB! – MariaDB
MariaDB is a database server that offers drop-in replacement functionality for MySQL. MariaDB is built by some of the original authors of MySQL, with assistance from the broader community of Free and open source software developers. In addition to the core functionality of MySQL, MariaDB offers a rich set of feature enhancements including alternate storage engines, server optimizations, and patches.
Becoming a Sole Proprietor in Illinois
Here is an outline of the steps you should follow to get started as a sole proprietor in Illinois. You should also read the general section for information applicable in any state.
Becoming a Sole Proprietor in Illinois | Citizen Media Law Project.
Business Owner’s Toolkit: Starting Sole Proprietorships
Starting Sole Proprietorships
The easiest and least expensive way to begin operating a business is as a sole proprietorship. You simply decide to begin operating the business as a sole proprietor and you’re done.
There are no documents or forms needed, unless the business will operate under a name other than the owner’s name
via Business Owner’s Toolkit: Starting Sole Proprietorships.
Starting a Consulting Company
Starting a consulting business? If you have expertise and skills that others need, starting a consulting firm may be your ticket to the entrepreneurial ball. This article walks you through the process.
The MySQL Cluster API Developer Guide
This guide provides information for developers wishing to develop applications against MySQL Cluster. Application interfaces covered include the low-level C++-language NDB API for the MySQL NDBCLUSTER storage engine, the C-language MGM API for communicating with and controlling MySQL Cluster management servers, and the MySQL Cluster Connector for Java, which is a a collection of Java APIs introduced in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 for writing applications against MySQL Cluster, including JDBC, JPA, and ClusterJ.
A step-by-step plan to starting a consulting business
During my career, I have also worked as a recruiter and a managing director at a consulting company. My varied experiences have given me the opportunity to talk with hundreds of consultants over the years. From both my own experiences and the experiences of others, I’ve developed a start-up plan for those seeking to head into consulting.
Via A step-by-step plan to starting a consulting business | TechRepublic.
ERROR 1130 (HY000): Host ‘hostname’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
After a bit of research, the fix in my case was to “GRANT” user root to connect to MySQL on any hosts. By default, user “root” was only allowed to connect to localhost and 127.0.0.1 hosts of MySQL.
#GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘root’@’%’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘<roots-password>’ WITH GRANT OPTION;
Create Your Own Web Server With BIND And Apache On CentOS 5 (Simplified)
Installing necessary packages
yum install bind bind-chroot bind-libs bind-utils caching-nameserver -y
After installing the necessary packages you are ready to start configuring named.conf. You may check and see that there is no named.conf in your /etc/ directory in Centos 5. No worries here you can see a sample named.conf file. Now create the file /etc/named.conf and copy/paste the content of the sample config file – just make sure you replace website.com with your own domain name.
Centos making things difficult again.