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Processor Performance by Rank

Posted Fri, 08/28/2009 - 15:00 by donmc

This chart comes from the crowd sourced PassMark benchmarking utility.
Please note that the slowest CPU recorded in this data set is the "AMD-K6 3D"
You can get their software at their web site here:
http://www.passmark.com/download/pt_download.htm
This table is sorted by CPU Ranking
To see this table sorted by CPU Name, CLICK HERE.
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Transparent Icons in XP

Posted Fri, 08/28/2009 - 12:25 by donmc

Here is the solution to this one:

  1. Open the Control Panel
  2. Click System
  3. Click the Advanced tab
  4. Click Settings in the Performance section
  5. Check the “Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop” checkbox
  6. Click OK until you close the windows
  7. Then, right click somewhere on the desktop. Select "Arrange Icons By" and disable "Lock Web Items on Desktop"

Windows PowerShell

Posted Mon, 08/24/2009 - 13:48 by donmc

Created a quick powershell to backup a server disk to disk as follows:

http://winterdom.com/2008/02/havescriptwillbackup/
http://atakan.titiz.net/2008/01/schedule-powershell-script.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/manual/run.mspx

Thanks to all who contributed.
Uses ROBOCOPY - very fast, flexible, and efficient.
Scheduled, backup is a done deal.

Now I just need an OFF-SITE version, and I am done.

D

DRUPAL Tips

Posted Tue, 08/18/2009 - 10:39 by donmc

Resetting your Drupal admin password

To directly reset your password, log into phpMyAdmin and execute the following mySQL statement:

UPDATE users SET pass = md5('newpassword') WHERE uid = 1;

1 billionth Firefox download

Posted Fri, 07/31/2009 - 18:02 by donmc

They must be doing something right...
Firefox has been downloaded more than 1 billion times as of 11am on July 31st 2009.
http://www.onebillionplusyou.com/

A New Operating System from Google...

Posted Fri, 07/10/2009 - 06:22 by donmc

I told you so.
Google had to eventually threaten the Microsoft OS stranglehold. They could not in all conscience not do so. See their announcement here for some details of this very key development:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

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how to enable SSH on Cisco IOS routers

Posted Fri, 06/19/2009 - 19:06 by donmc

It's worth enabling SSH in nearly every case for normal day to day remote access. This is mainly due to the inherently insecure nature of its little brother - TELNET, which is completely un-encrypted and therefore sniffable on any network.

Here's how:


R2(config)#ip domain name cisco.com
R2(config)#crypto key generate rsa
The name for the keys will be: R2.cisco.com
Choose the size of the key modulus in the range of 360 to 2048 for your
General Purpose Keys. Choosing a key modulus greater than 512 may take
a few minutes.

How many bits in the modulus [512]: Read more »

More Coolness...

Posted Thu, 06/18/2009 - 05:57 by donmc

http://www.yaml.de/en/home.html
"Yet Another Multi-Column Layout" - incredible JAVA CSS layout engine.

http://www.ohloh.net/p?sort=users&q=training
Ohloh - this is an interesting site that examines the open source community projects out there from many different angles. Extremely cool.

http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/about_features.html

  • It is open source and therefore free of charge
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Cool sites from today

Posted Wed, 06/17/2009 - 15:10 by donmc

http://www.seobook.com/
"Seo Book is different. We focus our training program on how to grow your presence. Our tagline Learn. Rank. Dominate. matches our approach to teaching SEO. "

http://htmlpurifier.org/
"HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are standards compliant, something only achievable with a comprehensive knowledge of W3C's specifications. " Read more »

recent connection failures

Posted Mon, 06/01/2009 - 13:23 by donmc

We've had some issues recently, so I wanted to apologise for those and tell you that they are now resolved (or so my service provider tells me...)

here is a history for the last few weeks - look what a bad cable can do to your reliability!

This report is thanks to a free website uptime monitor from www.basicstate.com

JaxBeachtech.com connection failures:
Start ,  End, ??,   Ping failure count,  Current Status                  
2009-05-16 15:09    2009-05-16 15:10       0       1  resolved
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