Sysadmin

From mydigitallife.info:

1. SiteUpTime - Free account monitors 1 service from 4 monitoring location at the frequency of 30 or 60 minutes with email alerts.

According to MachTech and summarised by MacDailyNews:

• Boot Camp is faster for simply running Windows
• When running Mac OS X and Windows together, you get the best performance using XP
• VMware Fusion and Parallels generally have similar performance
• Parallels is generally faster than VMware Fusion when using XP

Another great article on the johnandcailin.com site: Never loose your data again: backup remotely using rsync ssh and rdiff-backup

We've recently been asked by a client to look into creating a Drupal installation that can cope with heavy load. Here's some useful instructions from johnandcailin.com. I'll post a follow-up in the near future explaining what we ended up doing and how successful it was.

• Scaling drupal - an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites

Some people are having problems with the latest Mac OS X 10.4.11 update.

"It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD. I have a few theories on why that is, but that's not really relevant. I think a lot of Linux people get turned off BSD because they don't really understand how and why it's put together. Thus, this rant; as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb."