MogileFS – Platform to Store / Retrieve Files

Storing files/images/binary data into the database involves lots of performance issues. The more widely recommend solution for such a scenario is to push the files onto disk and store the metadata about the file and its location into a database. This has its pros and cons. If you have such a need and dont [...]

Some interesting commonly used words in meetings

Synergy, strategic fit, core competencies, best practice, bottom line, revisit, expeditious, to tell you the truth (or the truth is), 24/7, out of the loop, benchmark, value-added, proactive, win-win, think outside the box, fast track, result-driven, knowledge base, at the end of the day, touch base, mindset, client focus(ed), paradigm, game plan, leverage.

Learning search technology

After a very long time , i am creating an entry. Have started to attend webinars on Search Technologies and am planning to blog my learnings. Probably it will be kind of notes to the webinars.
To get an high level overview of search architecture, read the Anatomy of Large-Scale hypertext Web Search Engine by [...]

ISO’s and BIN/CUE

Utility to convert BIN/CUE CD image to ISO
bchunk xyz.bin xyz.cue xyz

Command to mount iso images in linux
mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /mnt/test