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Some time ago, quite interested in developing for MongoDB and spent some benchmarks in comparison with MySQL.
Initially, only Ruby, but when the results astonished (the worse), then in PHP, for comparison.
Maybe it will save someone some time.

Baselines:
System: $ uname-a
Linux pavlin.ik 2.6.31-gentoo-r4 # 1 SMP Sun Nov 1 18:21:31 MSK 2009 i686 Intel ® Core (TM) 2 Duo CPU T5450@1.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU / Linux
MongoDB v. 1.0.1
Gems:
gem mongo (0.16)
gem mongo_ext (0.16)
gem mysql (2.8.1)
Ruby:
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-linux]
ruby 1.9.1p243 (2009-07-16 revision 24175) [i686-linux]
ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2009.10
PHP 5.2.11-pl0-gentoo with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli)
Source tests are here: http://github.com/latrommi/benchmarking

Actually, the results:

Only one conclusion: it does not mean that MongoDB worse than MySQL, it means that it is not written in a normal, fast driver for Ruby:)

P.S. would be cool if someone would hold similar tests for Python.

In Minsk in the course «IT-Business”, which suits biznesinkubator BGUIR, hosted a lecture by Andrei Mogina, co-author of IPO from I to O, a renowned expert on investments and valuation of companies.
Andrew Mogin - Managing Partner Fund Genesys Asset Management, one of the leading experts in the CIS cost management company. Author of the training course for Intel on the financing of innovations, the author of courses on venture funding and innovation management.

The lecture was devoted to practical issues of investments in startups.
Materials can not be spread, but the video version is available.
This is the second lecture in the course.

The first lecture read Yuri Zisser, but she was devoted to a greater extent the history TUT.by as a startup. Among other things, YA said that he spent here buy 62 thousand dollars.

The first electromagnetic interstellar message was sent on Nov. 16, 1974 using the Arecibo radar telescope with an antenna diameter of 305 meters and the transmitter power of 500 kilowatts. Length communication was only 3 minutes. During this time, was transferred to 1679 bits of information. This number, being the product of two prime factors, indicates that the message encrypted two-dimensional image 23 by 73 pixels.

In 1679 bits Arecibo Frank Drake and Carl Sagan tried to put as much information.

The first block (red) defines the rules for writing numbers (from 1 to 10) in the binary system.

The second (orange) - lists the number of elements on which the life on Earth: hydrogen (1), carbon (6), nitrogen (7), oxygen (8) and phosphorus (15).

The third block (yellow) describes the structure of the DNA molecule: forming its skeleton deoxyribose (S5ON7) and phosphate (P04) alternate in the region are two columns, and in the middle gives the chemical formula of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine that encode genetic information. Formulas are written numerical coefficients in the same manner as the “elements of life” in the second block. For example, the deoxyribose is encoded as 7-5-0-1-0, which means 7 hydrogen atoms, 5 - carbon and 1 - oxygen.

The fourth block (green) - a DNA helix, and in the middle reports the number of nucleotides in human DNA - 4 294 441 822 (we now know that there are about S billion).

The fifth block (blue) contains information about people: from left to middle-sized man - 14 (1.76 m in units of the wavelength of the message - 12,6 cm), and the right - the world’s population in 1974 - 4 292 853 750.

Sixth block (blue) - the solar system from nine planets. The earth moved up and is under the man from the previous block, pointing to our habitat. Purple block represents a plate radar telescope that sent this message, and at the bottom of the center given its diameter - 2430 (306 meters in units of wavelength).

Frank Drake in the sample showed a simplified prototype of this message to other scientists. Carl Sagan decrypt it almost completely. On the other successes of reliable information is not preserved.

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Taiwan manufacturer of networking solutions, D-Link, saw its highest revenue year in the last month. In August, the company saw consolidated revenues of $ 80.43 million. This is especially good news for the D-Link, and for the first eight months of this year showed 16% reduction compared with 2008 numbers.

Monthly data were 7.8% higher than in August last year. D-Link also expects earnings to continue climbing for the remainder of the year. Things also look at 2010. “There’s a lot of room for growth, particularly in emerging markets. Brazil and China seem to climbing out of recession, and what happens to drive some of our growth,” said, D-Link CEO, Tony Cao.

We have yesterdays encyclopedia article where author talks about “Oooh Dramatic! Twitter Gets DDOSed” at the respected internet website Yahoo!. IT guy brings on a few new issues and internet magazines cooperating with “Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face, And a Blog” (indiansexvids.com wiki), “Facebook’s Newest Funding Source: You” (vonage.com), “Happy Kindle 2 Day! (videosgratis.tv wiki)” and “Android Now Plays Foursquare Too (24open.ru)”. You can download tons of scanned IT articles & books about cool IT paries.Online archives, services, media websites, news sites, startups, personal blogs are all reviewed at “Trouble Ahead For Blip.fm?”. Check it out and bookmark us.

Go through fresh message on “Beijing TechCrunch Meet Up” at main IT blog . The author is curious about a few crazy topics & web design ideas related to “Badda-Bing Indeed.” (123people.de), “Gmail Hitting Some Turbulence” (yahoofs.jp), “Is Sequoia China in Trouble? (flogao.com.br)” and “Twitter Gets Another New Design! (plaync.jp)”. You may download tons of brand new geek posts & reviews of amazing projects.Online archives, startups, personal blogs, services, media websites, news sites are all reviewed at “Facebook: Privacy Now Optional”. Enjoy and read more posts.

High performance Internet network browser Opera 10 has been finally released and it is ready to please users with some advantages and improvements. It has bandwidth economy option, mail agent, widget support and also it is much more secure.

Released new versions (via yoyo.pl) of all supported branches of Asterisk - 1.2.35, 1.4.26.2, 1.6.0.15, 1.6.1.6. Update unscheduled, associated with the vulnerability in the implementation of the protocol IAX2 (module chan_iax2), giving a remote attacker to cause a crash or Asterisk at the best of circumstances to initiate a session without passing the authentication. According to the report for the correction of vulnerability, the problem has been known since June 22 last year and the network can find a working exploit. Such a long time to fix due to the deadlock has arisen regarding the need to change the protocol and violations of backward compatibility for the vulnerability. Luckily found a workaround solution.

You can also note the emergence of a new project Starfish PBX (via bild.de ), aimed at creating an open alternative to commercial product Switchvox, growing company Digium. Currently Starfish PBX at the stage of preliminary testing, the product is not tied in some specific hardware devices, and aims to support a wide range of equipment and VoIP protocols (IAX, MGCP), focusing not only on the SIP. Available for download binary packages for Ubuntu 9.04 and a full set of source code, licensed under the Telesoft Public Licence 1.0, providing a similar degree of freedom of GPL, but imposing some restrictions on the supply of software in the hardware devices.

In fantastic insurgents we already repeatedly saw, how soldiers carry on wrists portable communicator, representing high-grade personal computers.
Company Parvus, having let out gadget Zypad WL 1000, has transformed this fiction into a reality. After all the device is present wrist the personal computer working under control of OS Linux.
Zypad WL 1000 has the 3,5-inch touch display with the permission 640х480 pixels, it is equipped by the navigating GPS-receiver, and wireless data transmission is possible on technologies Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and even Zigbee.
Gadget has the strong case reliably protected from influence of a dirt, water and a dust, probably, therefore it such bulky and weighs more than 600 grammes.