Crashcourse videos

I decided to post some of the videos that I watched in the last weeks concerning the financial crisis.I will start with CNBC news and Jim Rickards:

Gold vs Every Central Bank

The next film is really good and worth the time to watch it. I cound’t find it in english,so I post here only in german ( part 1 of 12 ).

Let´s Make Money

Next is a film showing the real situation in Iceland starting from 2008 untill this year.It is again in german,but I think that it is not available in english.( part 1 of

Aufstand in Island

Die Wirtschaftskrise,die Banken und der Kapitalismus

Update 17.08.2009 : Tiefere Ursachen der Weltfinanzkrise bei Prof. Dr. Bernd Senf

Warum der Kapitalismus auch Profitismus heißen könnte (Nicolas Hofer)

Vortrag von Jürgen Elsässer – “Rolle der Banken in der Wirtschaftskrise”:

Webster G. Tarpley erklärt uns das Wesen von Obama und ihren Interessen : “Government of the banks, by the banks, for the banks!”

Benchmarking with DBT2

DBT2  is an open source benchmark like TPC-C for databases (mainly  MySQL and PostgreSql ). The goal of this post is to list some links on DBT2 usage:

DBT2 report example

DBT2 scores

Jenny Chen’s Weblog on Performance

DBT2 Core Dev Team

MySQL Cluster Database 7: Performance Benchmark

PostgreSQL Portland Performance Practice Project – Database Test 2 Howto

PostgreSQL Portland Performance Practice Project – Database Test 2 How to use the kit

PostgreSql Git repository with all materials