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The Artificial Intelligence lab has opened its new website a few days ago. The website is based on Drupal and a PostgreSQL database. Unfortunately, some modules (such as the biblio module) have some bugs when being used with a PostgreSQL datable instead of MySQL, but I hope that the last bugs will be fixed in [...]

Today I analyzed disk reads and writes on a server with iotop and strace and found some interesting possible optimizations. With iotop you can check which processes are reading and writing from the disks. I always press the o, p and a keys in iotop so that it only shows me processes doing I/O and [...]

Already for a long time, I am a total opponent of Flash and things are clearly not improving. Quite on the contrary: Flash is still unstable on my systems, often not working correctly or causing browser hangs and it has many serious security flaws, which are fixed rather slowly by Adobe. Another piece of technology [...]

One of the servers I manage at work is still running Microsoft Windows 2000. This system is hosting a few old forgotten web sites and it runs Microsoft SQL Server containing a few databases still in use. This server was already there when I started working at the university. Fortunately I never had to do [...]