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EnterpriseAppsToday: New release of business analytics suite delivers a new type of hybrid in-memory/on-disk analytics.

Bashshell.net: "Variables are symbolic names for memory in which you can assign values, as well as read the contents or manipulate the contents.

Put in a simpler form, variables are a selection of information you save to be used again."

AMD boosts the power of its sub-$80 video card line by adding an option for GDDR5 memory. But does it make a difference?

Need a performance boost for your reads from and writes to a database or other dynamic files? A RAM-based filesystem is just what the good system doctor ordered.

Datamation: "Memcached, the open source distributed memory-based object caching system that enables Web 2.0 application to scale in order to meet the needs of highly traffic production usage, is headed to the cloud thanks to commercial IT services vendor Gear6."

Database Journal: "Last month we talked about some things to set and tune in a new MySQL database installation.

We touched on connections, query cache, temp tables, session memory, and the slow query log. This second part in the series hits on some other very important things to tune in a new MySQL database."

DevShed has posted the second to last part of their tutorial series looking at the magic functions in PHP.

This time they focus on the destruct function, a method that is fired off when an object is being removed from memory.

How to make a swapfile when you run out of memory.

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I have a Lenovo laptop which has basically concked off :(. The Lenovo support guy told me that it was because of installing a non compatible RAM which led to an "display card ICU" going haywire (I had installed Transcend memory after checking the laptops specs from the companys website).

DistroWatch Weekly: "Last week we took a look at how two distributions can be so very different even though they are based on the same technology (and even the same distribution).

What we found was that the Ubuntu variant, Xubuntu, which comes with the Xfce desktop, used more than twice the amount of memory over Debian's implementation of the same desktop."