RDM Networks 2008-11-18T15:11:36-05:00 Ryan McGuire http://www.rdmnetworks.com A picture is worth 1000 words. PLEA... A pictur... 2008-11-18T14:46:27-05:00 A picture is worth 1000 words. PLEASE start using a good browser! This is the result of an acid test on Opera, Firefox, Konqueror, and last AND DEFINITELY least, Internet Explorer.<br /><br /><img src=/images/acid_sm.png border=0 alt=acid results width=500 height=302 /> It's ELECTION DAY! Although it may ... It's ELE... 2008-11-04T10:55:52-05:00 It's ELECTION DAY! Although it may be un-wise to list political affiliation here, it was also suggested that I remove my picture because I am white and may get bumped down the list for a job. Obviously this didn't worry me and neither does saying VOTE MCCAIN!!! <br /><br />http://rdmnetworks.com/stuff/obama.wmv Compression roundup: Who is the alp... Compress... 2008-10-15T15:34:45-04:00 Compression roundup: Who is the alpha-dog of bit crunching? I did a roundup of the big 5 (gz, bz2, zip, rar, and 7z) and here are the results on a 327M mysql dump. The results are in order from best to worse. 7z was by far the shining champion at 45M beating the next best (bz2 - 57M) by 12M and the loser (zip) by 24M! <br /><br />-rwxr-x--- 1 redbeardmcg redbeardmcg&nbsp; 46870744 Oct 15 14:31 keg.mysql.dump.7z<br />-rwxr-x--- 1 redbeardmcg redbeardmcg&nbsp; 59069909 Oct 15 14:45 keg.mysql.dump.bz2<br />-rwxr-x--- 1 redbeardmcg redbeardmcg&nbsp; 61266259 Oct 15 15:01 keg.mysql.dump.rar<br />-rwxr-x--- 1 redbeardmcg redbeardmcg&nbsp; 72059791 Oct 15 14:16 keg.mysql.dump.gz<br />-rwxr-x--- 1 redbeardmcg redbeardmcg&nbsp; 72059858 Oct 15 14:55 keg.mysql.dump.zip<br /><br />So the big question... Why the hell is .zip the most commonly exchanged compressed file format? Because zip support is built into Microsoft windoez. When will the madness end??? GUI GUI everywhere but not a shell ... GUI GUI ... 2008-09-12T11:12:57-04:00 GUI GUI everywhere but not a shell to bash. Is the user's visual experience the most important part of an operating system? The reality to attracting non-technical users to an O.S. is you have to give them eye candy. An aesthetically pleasing environment has been and continues to be one of the MO's of Canonical and now Mark Shuttleworth is dropping some coin to make Ubuntu more [<strike>usable</strike>?] pretty.<br /><br />Check out his blog post here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/162 Keg (the host this is running on) j... Keg (the... 2008-08-20T06:29:48-04:00 Keg (the host this is running on) just had a catastrophic filesystem failure (2/4 disks in raid5). I have re-built the array in a raid6 container and taken a hit in storage to prevent this from happening again. Most of my data was lost so it may take a while to get everything back up and running. Linux vs. BSD. After having read a ... Linux vs... 2008-03-10T18:40:20-05:00 Linux vs. BSD. After having read a few articles with differing benchmarks between Linux and FreeBSD servers I am going to do a few of my own. BSD's SMP support has gotten a lot better, so it should be interesting to see how the 2 stack up. My prediction:<br /><br />Security: BSD<br />Performance: Linux I just signed a job with Sonus Netw... I just s... 2008-01-30T19:44:23-05:00 I just signed a job with Sonus Networks in Westford, MA. Sonus makes carrier grade equipment that services the VoIP industry such as circuit to packet tandem switches and network border switches. I will be starting Monday feb. 4th as a Technical Support Engineer!