This is a draft on configuring Munin to monitor services on a Linux machine, still dirty but published for my reference, if you have question let me know.

I create small Django app and tried to benchmark it with different backends, here is the result:

Backend	Req/Sec
PostgreSQL	68.41
PostgreSQL+pgpool	116.12
MySQL	127.61

The test performed using "ab" tool, 1000 requests with 5 concurrent clients: `$ ab -c 5 -n 1000 http://localhost/test`

Monty Widenius, the ‘father’ of MySQL, has created the the Open Database Alliance, with the aim of becoming the industry hub for the MySQL open source database. He wants to unify all MySQL-related development and services, providing a potential solution to the fragmentation and uncertainty facing the communities, businesses and technical experts involved with MySQL, following the news of the Oracle acquisition of Sun.

Via: Slashdot

Drupal wins 2008 Best Open Source CMS from Packt Publishing

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I love phpmyadmin, it is a web interface for MySQL DB server, I usually use the English interface, but the problem with English interface that it doesn’t show Arabic string, of course you can change the whole interface to Arabic, but I don’t understand anything from that interface.

So I played with PHPMyAdmin code so I can use English interface but using Arabic character set, here is how to do it:

# vi lang/english-iso-8859-1.inc.php
... change: $charset = 'iso-8859-1';
... to: $charset = 'windows-1256';