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Mose sites don't use gzip
It's amazing, but true. You'd figure with the costs of bandwidth so much higher than the costs of cpu time that sites would, but it still seems to be one of those things that only those with a clue know about. I figure hosting companies don't want to tell customers because they'll lose out on the bandwidth revenue.
The Leknor gzip checker is a handy little tool to figure out who uses it, and how much sites that don't use would save by using it. -
Re:Speaking of Web Servers... mod_gzipFunny you should mention this. I installed mod_gzip just this past weekend. It was pretty trivial even on Mac OS X (aka Jaguar). I downloaded it from sourceforge and compiled it with apxs. I patched in the well commented template into my httpd.conf. I restarted Apache and it was serving compressed pages (as I think Slashdot does). It was the first time I've built an Apache module. I wish plugging in Emacs extensions was that easy... YMMV
A quick and dirty test to see if your gzip'ing works is at:http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php
You could consider it a "gzip" validator. If the page isn't compressed, it shows you what the savings would be like if it was compressed.
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my favorites....
First, who said you need a big budget for "proper software"?
I don't know how many people think of it but I've become very comfortable editing html over a telnet session with vi[m]. SSH with compression turned on is even better then telnet.
- Get vim and force yourself to learn what seems to be a weird interface, once you learn it it is very powerful: http://www.vim.org
- OpenSSH: http://www.openssh.com
- If you need a cross platform SSH Client, MindTerm is rather good despite the java bloat: http://www.mindbright.se/mindterm/
- If your using php and have more cpu cycles then bandwidth then my gzip code is a quick fix: http://Leknor.com/code/
Also, sed, ps, find, grep are great little utils. I recently relized I could write quick shell scripts on the command line like this:
$ for x in `ls *.html`; do echo $x; done
I know that is very simple but it gives you an idea where to start.
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Clear Blue Media
I'm using Clear Blue Media for most all ads at my personal site, Leknor.com. I find them to be reasonable, but not great. I don't know enough about advertizing if 'reasonable' is actually top of the line so it may be good.
I was going to switch away from them but at the time they had the best payouts I could find. They've since lower rates so it may be time for me to start looking.
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The best thing you can do against SDMI...
The best thing you can do against SDMI is to support an open alternative like OggVorbis. The music will be realsed in what ever has the largest market share. If SDMI gets > 50% of the market sales then it will win. The best thing you can do is put you money where your mouth is and make sure an user friendly (friendly as in doen't limit the user) format gains most of the market.
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Re:I don't know the details but their are problems
here is the IBM story: http://www.theregister.co.u k/content/archive/10325.html
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I don't know the details but their are problemsI wish I had more info for you but all I could dig up from recent memory was this article that references probelsm IBM and MIT have had with Win2k: http://www.funky-pengu in.co.uk/index.php?zone=articles&id=13
It is a great article seperate from problems with win2k.
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Many servers and Squid
If you decide to go with more then one web server take a look at Squid. It can reverse proxy web request to make many servers look like one. You should be able to split the user names on alpha ranges.
From the Squid FAQ
The Squid redirector can make one accelerator act as a single front-end for multiple servers. If you need to move parts of your filesystem from one server to another, or if separately administered HTTP servers should logically appear under a single URL hierarchy, the accelerator makes the right thing happen.
This doesn't quite solve your ftp problem. I did a quick search and didn't find anything that would direct a ftp to a different server based off of username. It shouldn't be hard to adapt a ftp proxy to do this for you, but I've never tried.
It wouln't be hard to write a quick php/cgi help page that given the user name would provide the used with the correct server address. Or you could make a few dns entries like a.ftp.host, b.ftp.host, etc and if the users name was tom they would use t.ftp.host.
Or you could ask Geocites for their user management software
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old page on the net on the subjectThis page is no longer updated but at one time it was the only page on the internet about optimizing java:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/
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old page on the net on the subjectThis page is no longer updated but at one time it was the only page on the internet about optimizing java:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/
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Wow.Is it me or are these camera grossly over powered?
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(need to change my sig)
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Wow.Is it me or are these camera grossly over powered?
Leknor
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(need to change my sig)
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Political Voice on the IinternetOne, if the Internet allows every schmoe to declare themselves a presidential candidate, will it help the political process? Will it even have an effect,
My feeling is politics on the internet will never really have much effect. Why? Because the computer has a power switch. Any voice that preaches real change or what needs to be done (which will upset much of the population) can be easily ignored or just backed out of.
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Political Voice on the IinternetOne, if the Internet allows every schmoe to declare themselves a presidential candidate, will it help the political process? Will it even have an effect,
My feeling is politics on the internet will never really have much effect. Why? Because the computer has a power switch. Any voice that preaches real change or what needs to be done (which will upset much of the population) can be easily ignored or just backed out of.