MikroTik Syslog Daemon is a free Syslog Server for Windows

At one point I believed that only free Syslog server for Microsoft Windows was Kiwi Syslog Server. However, I found a very good alternative – MikroTik Syslog Daemon is a freeware Syslog Server for Windows platform. I am writing this post so others can find alternative Syslog recorder / server for Windows. Strangely, it cannot …

Same path – different files

You probably know from DOS / Windows / Linux / Mac OS, that it is impossible to create two files with the same name and extension in the same folder / directory. Yesterday, I saw a miracle – two programs show the same file differently. One program was PHP interpreter (fread funciton), other FAR Manager. …

Context switch can be 3 times slower in virtual environment such as VMware ESX

Tsuna analyzes how match time it takes to make a context switch. All analyzed chips are Multi-core Intel CPUs. OS / scheduler used – standard Linux Kernel. Results: depends on what we call a context switch (theoretical / real world) and what we measure is: 1000 ns – 4500 ns (up to 45000 ns – …