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Best Practices – Mongo Speed vs Distant WAN Yes — MongoDB replica sets across WANs can significantly impact performance, especially for read and write operations that wait on acknowledgments or are sensitive to replication lag. Here’s how to speed up your MongoDB replica set: Best Practices: 1. Yes, remove distant secondaries if: 2. Use readPreference: … Read more
Experiencing the maddeningly Inexplicable? Suspect AppArmor FIRST Nothing in a Long While has roused such ancient Microsft-ish Hatred and Total Retrograde to “Reboot As Fix Attempt” as AppArmor going silent default in Debian12. SILENT GOBBLER OF HUMAN LIFETIME, APPARMOR WILL INTERFERE DEATHTLY WITH DOCKER CONTAINERS BY SILENT DEFAULT — ITS EVIL ACTIONS ARE VERY TOUGH … Read more
DMARC DKIM SPF Email anti-spam slow-motion trainwreck Recently a client’s long-well-running, important email process was broken, halting reception by their sales team of emailed notifications regardings product inquiries on their website. This was all working well before ~January. Quick fix: website will now send emails marked as being “From:sales@YOUR.net” Longer explanation: Microsoft/Outlook and/or 2cows.com apparently … Read more
Linus best quality – Unwillingness to let go – Tenacity His most important quality: Tenacity (I would not let go…) around 10:30 in
Benchmarks of Docker vs BareMetal Note concern over mounted data volumes for Mongo Here are real-world performance comparison examples of MongoDB running on bare-metal vs Docker, using benchmarks and reports from known tests or developer observations: 1. Percona Benchmarks (2018–2020) Setup: MongoDB 4.x tested using YCSB (Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark) and sysbench on identical hardware. … Read more
How to clear web browser cache on various Apple software and products To clear the browser cache on an Apple device, follow the steps based on your browser and device type: Safari on macOS (MacBook, iMac): Safari on iOS (iPhone, iPad): Chrome on macOS: Chrome on iOS:
Free open-source competitor to Oracle Netsuite ODOO Odoo, formerly known as OpenERP, is a suite of open-source business apps written in Python and released under the LGPL license. This suite of applications covers all business needs, from Website/Ecommerce down to manufacturing, inventory and accounting, all seamlessly integrated. It is the first time ever a software … Read more
Sans-serif fonts look “cleaner” The days of “flow” guided by otherwise “clutterful” serif fonts are waning as analog print materials secedes evermore to digital. A client recently requested a “cleaner” look for their website overall. Comparison to examples immediately revealed “cleaner looking” sans-serif was an easy substitute for quick results. Serif Font Sans-serif Equivalent Notes … Read more
Real-World Layer-2 GHOST – RealTek USB NIC is Total Junk vs Known Good Quality Replacements Realtek RTL8153-based USB NIC Troubleshooting (another) tech problem that should have been simple but instead became insanely obnoxious, costing some hours, hardware swaps, etc. Details at the bottom. Just below are known working USB NICs that do not use RealTek … Read more
Search Engines accepting submissions Past Efforts to Allow Public Contributions to Search Engines Some search engines—especially open-source or decentralized ones—have experimented with allowing users to contribute directly to their data or indexing pipeline. These efforts generally fall into a few categories: Open Indexing Initiatives Search Engines that Accept URL Submissions or Additions Search Engine Public … Read more