Installing Windows GPLPV Drivers in Xen

I’ve done this enough times to know it by heart but I remember when I tried to find documentation on this step I ran into countless inaccurate and outdated examples.  So here’s what I do to get the Windows GPL PV drivers installed under Xen. Download the drivers from meadowcourt.org.  As of 1/18/2012 the latest …

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Researching Redis on Rails

I’ve been researching how good a fit Redis might be for a project or 2.  One project needs a memory based key-value store generally without persistence, which would seem to suggest memcached.  However, there may be times where persistence across reboots may be desirable and Redis’ atomic operations and data types may also be useful.  …

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