Paul Sadauskas paul

With the IE9 betas beginning to come out, Microsoft have introduced an interesting new feature they're calling [pinned sites][]. For more details about how it works, you can check out the [Ars Technica preview][ars preview]. Essentially, you put several ms-vendor specific meta tags in the html of your header that describe the menu. The example given on the Ars preview uses this markup:

<meta name="application-name" content="Ars Technica"/>
<meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="http://arstechnica.com/"/>
<meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="Ars Technica: Serving the technologist for 1.2 decades"/>
<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=News;action-uri=http://arstechnica.com/;icon-uri=http://arstechnica.com/favicon.ico"/>
<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Features;action-uri=http://arstechnica.com/features/;icon-uri=http://static.arstechnica.net/ie-jump-menu/jump-features.ico"/>

2-device stripe

8KB blocks

time sudo iozone -a -c -e -s 1226m -q 8 -y 8
Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
        Version $Revision: 3.308 $
	Compiled for 64 bit mode.

Build: linux

256 MB RAM

# time iozone -a -c -e -s 512m -q 4096 -y 64
Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
        Version $Revision: 3.347 $
	Compiled for 64 bit mode.
	Build: linux-AMD64 

Contributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins

Setup

mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=stripe --assume-clean --chunk=256 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdd*
mkfs.xfs /dev/md0
mkdir -p /data
mount /dev/md0 /data

iozone

Setup

mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=stripe --assume-clean --chunk=256 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdd*
mkfs.xfs /dev/md0
mkdir -p /data
mount /dev/md0 /data

iozone

m1.large

Single mounted EBS, XFS

Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
        Version $Revision: 3.308 $
  Compiled for 64 bit mode.
  Build: linux

Run began: Sun Aug 22 19:35:33 2010

m1.large

Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
        Version $Revision: 3.308 $
  Compiled for 64 bit mode.
  Build: linux 

Contributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins

Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss

	require 'benchmark'
	require 'mongoid'
	require 'pp'
	require 'active_support'

	conn = Mongo::Connection.new
	conn.drop_database('mongoid_test')

	db = conn.db("mongoid_test")

	/*
	* Correct field names and ids (and for) so forms work and labels
	* line up. Replaces names like:
	*
	* post[author][42][name]
	* post[author][][name]
	*
	* with a timestamp, so that there's no collisions.
	*
	* post[author][1283896010739][name]

	" Use vim settings, rather then vi settings (much better!)
	" This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.
	set nocompatible

	" Use pathogen to easily modify the runtime path to include all plugins under
	" the ~/.vim/bundle directory
	call pathogen#helptags()
	call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()

	" Editing behaviour {{{