Padraig's Blog

I've decided to start blogging with WordPress now as it just makes putting code samples and things like that so much easier! Also, I had...

Drizzle is a pretty cool project whose progress I've started following in the last few weeks. I'm trying to contribute in a tiny wa...

At university, I work in a research group where we are developing an application in C++ that runs on both Linux and Windows. Since I do most...

I'm currently studying Oracle's white paper on Exadata and came across the following paragraph: "Further, Orace's intercon...

We just finished our semester project yesterday for the class I am taking on High Performance Computing. It was a pretty interesting project...

I had removed this blog but kept getting some emails asking for links to certain posts so I just posted some old posts again so that they ar...

In Solaris 10, Sun introduced the Service Management Facility (SMF) to simplify management of system services. It is a component of the so c...