I use Be (bethere.co.uk). Its ADSL2+, so you can get up to 24mb, unlimited for £18 a month. Im pretty sure they dont throttle torrents, but I dont download many. I get up to 2mbps down from a good ftp mirror (eg: heanet)
I'm guessing the reason for your poor DB performance was due to disk access. In vmware you can use a real partition rather than a disk image, not sure if you can with Xen.
MySQL lets you store the whole DB in ram if your using NBD, which should be fine in a VM - I dont know if you can do that with oracle.
A defrag would cause lots of writes to the disk, which you dont want on a flash drive (they wear out). They do fragment, its the job of the operating system to prevent it. I'm not sure about NTFS, but I remember FAT32 defragmenting a lot. EXT2/3 hardly fragments at all, I bet NTFS is the same, as well as reiserfs, xfs, etc.
Solid state drives dont have seek time, so fragmentation isn't an issue. With normal hard drives, the read head has to spin around to the part of the platter with the data you want on it (hence the latency if its scattered all over the disk).
Works in opera too. We use it as part of an xmlrpc based notification system. I'm not sure how laggy it is, but we dont notice any lag (although the files we play will all be cached on our development machines)
I bought myself a p990i (with orange, uk). Its a very nice phone - the specs are great - 2mp camera, ieee802.11b, pop3,smtp,3g, etc. Anyway, the phone crashes regularly, the interface is slow, when pull the num keys down to reveal the qwerty keyboard, the screen goes white for about a second.
There's a firmware fix for it from sony ericsson, but orange have installed branded firmware so I cant upgrade to fix the bugs. Any suggestions?
We bought a webcamming system from a company called Datetopia. If the php side of the software detected $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] wasn't the one it was registered to (eg: if you decided to buy video.mydomain.com and use that for it), then it would drop its tables in the database.
The softare was badly written (used register_globals, etc), and lots of the code was put in an eval() (potentially a security nightmare), and obfusicated (base64'd, etc). We decided to scrap it, rather than reverse engineer it, so we wrote our own.
Modern documents have so many binary data types inserted in them (images, fonts, etc.)
Firefox and Opera (iirc) both support base64 encoded binary data being stuffed inside img src. I cant remember if IE supports it or not, or if its in the actual standard though. Not that I agree with using html for typesetting.
You mean just like people realising that 'god works in misterious ways' and 'god doesn't interfere' are incompatible theories, would[1] send religion back about 6 thousand years?
[1] along with dinosours being around 'before' the earth was invented, the fact that heaven isn't 'up there', etc
I wonder if we'll end up with 'scientists', who refuse to acknowledge the (aledged) new technology, even after its powering their house
You may want to run bind and apache on the same machine, but not have to worry about the security issues of one affecting the other, so you run two virtual machines, each with a seperate server (I know about chroots, but a vm is more secure).
To provide a decent UI for the user, you have to sometimes 'require' JS, for example, if you want to maintain a session when the user isn't actively clicking on links (especially when you need to know who is actually online, eg: see my link), you need to use xmlrpc (sometimes meta refresh just wont do).
If you want a 'You have recieved mail' popup, you need JS, same with drag/drop, client side validation (along with server side obviously), client side updates of something that is happening server side (eg: the telephone call you requested is now being dialed, was answered, was disconnected, etc).
The WWW would be much worse off without Javascript, as much as I hate the language. XSS could be prevented if JS could only be included by a HTTP header, such as:
link-file: javascript.js link-file: js2.js
etc, but we're a good decade late for that to become mandatory.
I'm quite suprised by IE 7, i tried one of the sites i maintain in it, it looked bloody awful, so i changed the conditional comments to LTE IE 6.5 rather than 7.5, and it looked quite close to how it should have.
thing is, soon i'm going to have to start maintaining 2 extra stylesheets included by conditional comments for every website
>Even simple matters can quickly become lost in rhetorical complications (you are in violation of statuate 12, sub-clause 14, paragraph 2, line 3, word 142).
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here is another ( games.on.net )
I use Be (bethere.co.uk). Its ADSL2+, so you can get up to 24mb, unlimited for £18 a month. Im pretty sure they dont throttle torrents, but I dont download many. I get up to 2mbps down from a good ftp mirror (eg: heanet)
look at him now, disappearing the cow
where is the cow, hidden right now
I'm guessing the reason for your poor DB performance was due to disk access. In vmware you can use a real partition rather than a disk image, not sure if you can with Xen.
MySQL lets you store the whole DB in ram if your using NBD, which should be fine in a VM - I dont know if you can do that with oracle.
A defrag would cause lots of writes to the disk, which you dont want on a flash drive (they wear out). They do fragment, its the job of the operating system to prevent it. I'm not sure about NTFS, but I remember FAT32 defragmenting a lot. EXT2/3 hardly fragments at all, I bet NTFS is the same, as well as reiserfs, xfs, etc.
Solid state drives dont have seek time, so fragmentation isn't an issue. With normal hard drives, the read head has to spin around to the part of the platter with the data you want on it (hence the latency if its scattered all over the disk).
Works in opera too. We use it as part of an xmlrpc based notification system. I'm not sure how laggy it is, but we dont notice any lag (although the files we play will all be cached on our development machines)
function playSound(url){i ld(snd);
if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
var snd = document.createElement("bgsound");
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendCh
snd.src=url
} else {
var snd = document.createElement("object");
snd.width="0px";
snd.height="0px";
snd.type = "audio/x-wav";
snd.data = url;
var body = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
body.appendChild(snd);
}
}
You shouldn't always have admin access, but usually you do (at least on XP)
for windows, you can do autorun from usb sticks - just have it install the ext drivers on a small vfat thumb drive
Ubuntu has `apt-get autoremove`, debian probably does too.
I bought myself a p990i (with orange, uk). Its a very nice phone - the specs are great - 2mp camera, ieee802.11b, pop3,smtp,3g, etc. Anyway, the phone crashes regularly, the interface is slow, when pull the num keys down to reveal the qwerty keyboard, the screen goes white for about a second.
There's a firmware fix for it from sony ericsson, but orange have installed branded firmware so I cant upgrade to fix the bugs. Any suggestions?
We bought a webcamming system from a company called Datetopia. If the php side of the software detected $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] wasn't the one it was registered to (eg: if you decided to buy video.mydomain.com and use that for it), then it would drop its tables in the database.
The softare was badly written (used register_globals, etc), and lots of the code was put in an eval() (potentially a security nightmare), and obfusicated (base64'd, etc). We decided to scrap it, rather than reverse engineer it, so we wrote our own.
Do you mean like squid?
Modern documents have so many binary data types inserted in them (images, fonts, etc.)
Firefox and Opera (iirc) both support base64 encoded binary data being stuffed inside img src. I cant remember if IE supports it or not, or if its in the actual standard though. Not that I agree with using html for typesetting.
I'm sure you cant run more than 64 instances of cmd.exe (or possibly graphical applications?) in XP.
You mean just like people realising that 'god works in misterious ways' and 'god doesn't interfere' are incompatible theories, would[1] send religion back about 6 thousand years?
[1] along with dinosours being around 'before' the earth was invented, the fact that heaven isn't 'up there', etc
I wonder if we'll end up with 'scientists', who refuse to acknowledge the (aledged) new technology, even after its powering their house
if it can power an electric car, that sounds good to me (in the uk its £1 per litre of petrol, which is about $1.88 at the moment)
You may want to run bind and apache on the same machine, but not have to worry about the security issues of one affecting the other, so you run two virtual machines, each with a seperate server (I know about chroots, but a vm is more secure).
R2D2 could fly, he(?) didn't seem to have the ability to go upstairs, until he turned into a flying ninja, for a few seconds.
Freebsd, apart* from the gnu compiler collection, of course.
*also, I always install bash on freebsd, which is gnu, iirc.
mldonkey runs on OSX, and I suppose you could count safari or OSX's telnet to have 'native guis'
To provide a decent UI for the user, you have to sometimes 'require' JS, for example, if you want to maintain a session when the user isn't actively clicking on links (especially when you need to know who is actually online, eg: see my link), you need to use xmlrpc (sometimes meta refresh just wont do).
If you want a 'You have recieved mail' popup, you need JS, same with drag/drop, client side validation (along with server side obviously), client side updates of something that is happening server side (eg: the telephone call you requested is now being dialed, was answered, was disconnected, etc).
The WWW would be much worse off without Javascript, as much as I hate the language. XSS could be prevented if JS could only be included by a HTTP header, such as:
link-file: javascript.js
link-file: js2.js
etc, but we're a good decade late for that to become mandatory.
I'm quite suprised by IE 7, i tried one of the sites i maintain in it, it looked bloody awful, so i changed the conditional comments to LTE IE 6.5 rather than 7.5, and it looked quite close to how it should have.
thing is, soon i'm going to have to start maintaining 2 extra stylesheets included by conditional comments for every website
>Even simple matters can quickly become lost in rhetorical complications (you are in violation of statuate 12, sub-clause 14, paragraph 2, line 3, word 142).
I did not snog a llama