Archive for February 2008
The last time I talked about the problems with porting mrxvt to SUA, I had a lot of problems getting SUA installed and working properly. On top of that, was the problem of porting mrxvt, but now that I’ve got it working under Vista, I’ll document what I did incase anyone else wants to do the same thing I did.
My original intent to use SUA was that I wanted a good tabbed terminal under Windows. Although I love PuTTY, it has served me nicely throughout the years, and still do, but it lacks one thing I use the most, tabs. The only way I can get this is to port mrxvt over to Windows. Of course, one of my previous posts explained why I prefer SUA over Cygwin, so I wont go over that anymore, but the simple explanation is that it is faster.
cygwin · mrxvt · sua · windows vista
I recently found a post on this one particular blog that was doing benchmark for PHP vs Ruby. The author of the blog wrote merge sort in PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python and C++, then proceeded to test the speed at which they ran. I found it interesting that this particular merge script written in Ruby took only 3/4 of the a time to run. So I downloaded his exact scripts that he used and tested on one of my server machines. The only one I didn’t run was the C++ version of this merge sort.
I recently took a databases class here at my school, and this argument came up rather heatedly in the class. The teacher really likes the idea of a char while a few students see no point in it and that varchar are a lot better. This came up during the group’s presentation to the class on how they were going to design their database. It really got me thinking which one is better since they both had good arguments behind it. First, why varchar?
One of the servers we’ve had for a while was running a bit slow. After a few hours of searching, I’ve found out that one of the PHP scripts was running a mailer and it was just dragging the system down. Although most of the load was through exim, our mailer, I found that apache was hogging up a bit of resources as well. Since our server load was high and we were getting a decent number of visitors hitting on our vBulletin as well as a PHP lyrics script that I partially wrote for our Vietnamese lyrics website. I went to search on how to optimize PHP scripts and I came up with eAccelerator. (more…)
php · php optimization · speed up php · speed up php and apache · web development
For the past few days, Softlayer had very good "specials" for their server deals. What’s the deal?
FREE Double Default RAM and Double Default Drive on any Seattle Server Base Priced $179.00 or Higher
Well, since we were already paying $189 for one of our servers, why not jump on this deal? Essentially, before this deal, our server specs was Opteron 170, 2GB of ram, 250GB of diskspace. Now, for just $10 more, this is the beast we’re getting: (more…)
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If you have kept up with this blog at all, you would know that I had several problems with my brand new laptop, the M1330. Since then, I’ve contacted Dell and they’ve put in a replacement laptop for me using the next business day shipping. So, DHL did a "Shipment Acknowledged" on Wednesday the 6th, but they didn’t pick up the package until Thursday the 7th. So I thought in my mind, the laptop would arrive at my place on Friday the 8th hence the "Next Business Day" shipping. Although I shouldn’t be surprised, but it is now February 11th, and I have no idea where my replacement laptop is! (more…)
Unlike the rosy picture I had painted about SUA in my previous post, I’ve ran into a lot of problems with it once I have installed it on my new version of Vista Ultimate. First off, I enabled SUA through the Control Panel, then I went to download the SDK and utilities off of Microsoft’s Website. After I installed everything (by doing default and clicking Next), it told me to restart my computer. It turned off fine, but it couldn’t turn back on!
It went to the recovery screen because it could not start Windows Vista properly. Talk about problems eh? It then asked me if I wanted to go back to previous settings, I was pissed at this point and opted no, just for the hell of it to see. It still attempted the repair process, taking about 20 minutes, could not find anything, then restarted. This time, it restarted fine…wtf? After all that installations of the SDK and utilities, I have the C shell and the K shell on my start menu, neither of which I prefer. So I went to install bash…but I don’t know how to use their pkg utilities. (more…)
bash shell · mrxvt sua · porting mrxvt · rxvt · vista sua
I tried and tried to work with Vista Home to find a good alternative to Vista’s SUA (Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications), and I really can’t find a good alternative. I had to shell some cash out of my own pocket to get Vista Ultimate, but I got it for cheap since I have student discount. There are a few things that I look for when looking for a *nix in windows type of environment. First off, I would like to have a fast shell and that it’s multi-tabbed. Reason being for this tabbed feature is that it increases my productivity by a lot! (more…)
cygwin · sua · windows vista
I was getting ready to test Interix/SFU/SUA under my new computer running Vista Home Premium. What I found was really disappointing. There are NO support for SUA under Home Premium. I looked at this closer and realized that there are no support in any versions of Vista Home along with Vista Business. Only Enterprise and Ultimate supports SUA. For those of you who aren’t into *nix, you may be asking yourself, "What the hell is SUA?" (more…)
If you read my post about my initial reactions to the M1330, you’ll find that I was kind of bummed out about the new plug for the M1330. The reason behind this is that I own a Dell 700m, which has a different type of plug, and I was thinking of using the extra 700m AC adapter to use on the M1330.
As you can kind of see from this image, the plug for the new Dell M1330 is octogonal, unlike that of its predecessors, which is circular. Before checking if the plug fits or not, I took a look at both adapters to see its power rating. This is what I got from looking at both:
