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Next April 11th, at the IIEA in North Gt Georges St:
Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, will examine the case for reform of copyright and patent law in the EU. Legalised file sharing, free sampling and shortened copyright protection times are the main elements of a proposal co-authored by Mr. Falkvinge which was submitted to the European Parliament in 2012. He will question whether, in the context of ever-increasing online activity, existing legal frameworks pose a threat to users’ civil liberties.
(tags: rick-falkvinge pirate-party ireland iiea dublin copyright patents filesharing)
High Performance MongoDB Clusters with Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS
yeah yeah, Mongo. bookmarking for the good data on EBS+PIOPS
(tags: ebs piops aws performance tips ops ec2 mongodb presentations)
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These notes are intended to help users and system administrators maximize TCP/IP performance on their computer systems. They summarize all of the end-system (computer system) network tuning issues including a tutorial on TCP tuning, easy configuration checks for non-experts, and a repository of operating system specific instructions for getting the best possible network performance on these platforms.
Some tips for maximizing HPC network performance for the intra-DC case; recommended by the LinkedIn Kafka operations page.(tags: tuning network tcp sysadmin performance ops kafka ec2)
Increasing EBS Performance – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
good docs from EC2
(tags: ec2 ebs performance piops docs)