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Examine how to determine the root cause of Web performance problems. Without proper measurement, how do you know whether your Web application is performing well? By using open source tools such as the RRDtool, you can graph the key performance measurements of any Web application, use these graphs to determine the impact of changes in the environment, or point to changes that need addressing.

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. The three distinguishing characteristics of httperf are its robustness, which includes the ability to generate and sustain server overload, support for the HTTP/1.1 and SSL protocols, and its extensibility to new workload generators and performance measurements.

Alky (pronounced "AL-KEE") is a tool that allows you to convert a Windows executable to a Mac OS X or Linux binary. We are focused on high-end gaming at the moment, though we will support other applications in the future. Our binary translation layer is already working fully for OS X and Linux support is in progress. Of course, Windows applications use a very different set of libraries from Linux or OS X applications so we are also working on a library called LibAlky that will provide those Windows libraries to the application.

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The ZoomIn Mapping System brings dynamic mapping to your website. Our map technology enables you to pan, zoom and click into map data without reloading the web page. The system also allows you to easily place custom graphical markers and text on the maps.

Over 1080 images scanned from more than 80 different old books, most with multiple high-resolution versions and many with text excerpts! They are all public domain (copyright-free, out of copyright) unless otherwise noted, and can be used as historical reference in teaching, royalty-free stock images, scrapbook clip art, or even on your own Web site (learn how).

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With Banshee you can easily import, manage, and play selections from your music collection. Banshee allows you to import CDs, sync your music collection to an iPod, play music directly from an iPod, create playlists with songs from your library, and create audio and MP3 CDs from subsets of your library.

If you want to dip your toe in the water of some key technologies, then start here. In collaboration with Sams Publishing, we're offering online versions of select books for your reading pleasure — no library card (or credit card) required.

BASE is the Basic Analysis and Security Engine. It is based on the code from the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) project. This application provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from a SNORT IDS system.

There are many Continuous Integration systems available. This page is an attempt to keep an unbiased comparison of as many as possible of them. The goals are: * Make it easier to choose an appropriate CI tool for your project. * "Healthy competition aid" for the people involved in the development of these various CI systems.

A powerful new telescope that will image the entire sky every three nights will be located in Chile, officials have announced. If it receives the required funding, the telescope is expected to begin operating in 2012.

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Simple tutorial to build an AJAX Digg Spy-like feature for your website. Covers everything from Prototype, Scriptaculous, and basic javsacript to fetch XML and leverage Fade Effects. Includes pretty good instructions and source code.

In the world of education, technology plays an ever-increasing role in student management and other administrative tasks. Teachers all over the world are using an open source GPL-licensed course management system called LON-CAPA, and the result are "revitalizing," "unique," and "creative," according to some of its users.

Giant structures stretching more than a billion light years across have been revealed by two new maps of the distribution of galaxies in the universe. The updated atlases lend more support to the idea that the universe is dominated by dark matter and dark energy.

TestRunner integrates NUnit testing, debugging, coverage, and profiling into a compact Visual Studio .NET 2003 /2005 add-in. TestRunner works with the latest version of NUnit straight from SourceForge CVS, no special builds required.