Nihilinux » Archive for January 2010
The Power of Social Networking
Do you want to know somethings about a person? Do you want to learn about an individual’s intimate details? Do you desire to understand you target’s patterns? Then continue to read… Social networking (SN) websites are great places to make new friends that share similar interests. It is also a great place to get some ideas. Additionally, the fact that is is possible to be involved in various networks with others from all over the globe is an amazing feat in itself. However, a much darker side of social networking exists… The type of information that can be collected from these types of networks can range from the most basic information to the most detailed. For example, email addresses, phone numbers, resident location(s), work related details, family members and leisure activities. These examples can … Read entire article »
Filed under: Information Gathering, Social Networking
Ext4 just isn’t ready
An independent study has shown that as the linux kernel is changing, ext4 isn’t keeping track with the changes. Not to say ext4 isn’t good, it’s just not as fast as ext3 with the current newer kernel changes. A shame really, as I was a fan of the idea of ext4 (who wasn’t?). Again, this testing was looking at the file-system performance when each file-system was left to its default mount options. EXT4 could be mounted in a way that it would not suffer as many performance penalties (at the risk of data being potentially lost in a crash) and the other file-systems can be tuned as well, but we will save that tuning and mount option testing for another article. Source: www.phoronix.com … Read entire article »