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You restart your servers daily at 0330 just so Windoze doesn't choke of memory holes that leak worse than the Hoover dam when all the sluice gates are opened?Lee A Burnett said:Good guesses on the SDN servers, but we're running other beasties at this point.
Server overloads should decrease when we get 2 additional servers later this summer. They will each have specific data-processing duties that will give overall increased speed and stability to the site.
Our biggest problem is that when we get new servers, everything runs great for a few months, then SDN becomes even more popular, which overloads our new servers -- it's basically a race to keep-up with increasing demand. Right now were serving around 430 GB/month, and it goes up every month.
BTW, why does the site go down at 3:30am? I'll give you one guess.
Man, I wrote a prototype for a company, to download all the front-end mark-up to the client initially (kinda like a thick-client, though in HTML and JavaScript) and just send the changing data back and forth as XML - more data first time to load the front-end, but very less data-transfer in the subsequent page views. It was just a prototype though, wish I could develop it fully and sell it for $$$TheWingThing said:You restart your servers daily at 0330 just so Windoze doesn't choke of memory holes that leak worse than the Hoover dam when all the sluice gates are opened?
BTW, Lee, are there plans to move the servers to *nix?
430Gig per month? How much does it cost? Is there a way to optimize/cut down on the images and the stylesheets and unnecessary HTML mark-up and make the pages skinnier?
Wow, that's awesome. How did you get invited to test them? :clappy:jlee9531 said:this is kinda unrelated...but a while ago there was a thread about google having an email service that gave a gig of space.
since it came around 4/1 i thought it was an april fools joke, but i have been invited to test out the beta version and yes they do give you a 1000MBs of space. Very sweet.
just wanted people to know that it is for real and that the complete version is on its way sometime in the future.
TheWingThing said:Wow, that's awesome. How did you get invited to test them? :clappy:
It's here: http://gmail.google.com or http://www.gmail.com
It's still not open to public yet (as of april 15)
Aww, pick me, pick me. Can I have one too?jlee9531 said:i got a private invitation from a friend that is relatively high up there at google.
Alexander99 said:Thanks for your help. I got the wireless network up and running without a hitch. I bought the Microsoft wireless base station and wireless cards for our laptop and desktop. I've enabled WEP and have limited access to only 2 MAC IDs (those on our wireless cards.)
I have a question about the new latop I got. Everything works great except one time, I was using it and I closed it momentarily. It put it into standby mode but I couldn't get back to Windows. The screen just stayed dark no matter what I did so I had to hold down the power button to turn it off and reboot. What could be causing this? I changed the settings so that now when I close the notebook, it doesn't go into standby but simply turns off the screen.
flighterdoc said:Hmm, new laptop? Are you sure that the OS is completely up to date? If it's an XP machine, you should check weekly at support.microsoft.com. Also check to see that the BIOS is the latest and greatest.
What sort of machine is it?
Alexander99 said:It's a Dell Inspiron 9100. I just updated XP today so I don't think that's it. How do I go about checking on the bios?
What flighterdoc said was right, if you want to download a newer BIOS from Dell's website. but to actually get *into* the BIOS, it's probably either Delete, Escape, or F2, or maybe F8 when you first power it up. It should say something like, "Press XX to Enter Setup" or something.Alexander99 said:It's a Dell Inspiron 9100. I just updated XP today so I don't think that's it. How do I go about checking on the bios?
TheWingThing said:In the BIOS, go to Power options, and if there's and option such as "ACPI installed" or "advanced power control" or something, selected "controlled by operating system" or "plug and play operating system installed" or something to that effect. Basically, configure the BIOS so that the power options are controlled by the operating system.
OTOH, I think this would be the default configuration, so you might wanna check the power settings under Windows. Sometimes, a wireless or a bluetooth adapter interferes with the computer entering standby mode. Search either the wireless card manufacturer's website or the Dell's support pages for your model. That might give some pointers and there may be a new driver for your wireless card or a BIOS update on the Dell site, etc.
Alexander99 said:Since everything else is working without a hitch, I think I'll just keep it the way I have now (my laptop screen turns off but the computer is on when I fold it) instead of going through all the hassle. I'm afraid that if I do what you suggest, Windows will crash more, my wireless network won't work as well, etc. The standby mode is somewhat useless for laptops anyway since you'll normally just turn it off when you put it in your bag.
In either case, thanks for your advice.
I'd look for these things in a laptop:sunni said:does anyone have any advice?
i want/need a new laptop, I would like something that runs Unix or Linux, and I need enough memory/fast enough processor to compile some epi reports, do other database functions, and *quickly* run some phylogentic programs like Clustal X and Arb, but I also need autocad & the other "fun stuff"
You mean the LCD's backlight or the keyboard's backlight? Either way, I'm not sure, did you look up their parts website?bgreet said:Mabye someone will know; I run linux mandrake and it takes forever to load up the wireless network card, a dlink dw650, (eth0) any ideas on how to speed it up? I'm using the correct module etc. etc.
Also another question, my backlight in my laptop seemed to go out (only 2 years old) and I don't believe its still under warranty. Can I just buy the backlight and replace it for cheap? Thanks!
I'd back up all the data, partition the Hard disk in two, use C: for programs and Windows, and D: for all my data. This way, if Windows goes belly up again, and it will, I can just reformat C: and install everything again, while my data will be safe of D:evines said:Exploitation time.
My mom's computer takes about 4 hours (slight exaggeration) to boot up, and runs sluggishly after boot up too. What's up with that??
It didn't use to take so long, and it seems to have been a gradual progression into computer hell (instead of an overnight good to bad kinda thing).
It's a Dell laptop, XP home ed, PIII 733, either 128 or 256 RAM (she wasn't sure).
I'm to stupid to properly troubleshoot with her, so I'm hoping for some advice. All I could think of is that the defrag might not be working. Thanks.
PS~ She said the slowdown MIGHT have started either when she installed XP or when she installed AOL HighSpeed, but it could have started slowing down before any of this also.
TheWingThing said:You mean the LCD's backlight or the keyboard's backlight? Either way, I'm not sure, did you look up their parts website?
I have the feeling it won't be cheap or easy, just because that would be useful. In my experience, laptops are much harder to fix pieces of.bgreet said:Also another question, my backlight in my laptop seemed to go out (only 2 years old) and I don't believe its still under warranty. Can I just buy the backlight and replace it for cheap? Thanks!
Lee A Burnett said:BTW, why does the site go down at 3:30am? I'll give you one guess.
Can you post the make/model specs of your laptop? I'll see if I can find out whether you can change the backlight alone or you'll have to change the whole LCDbgreet said:The LCD's actual backlight, meaning that the screen is no longer lit up. It's very dark, basically unable to be seen/read. Only VERY bright white images can barely be seen.
bgreet said:my main question that I needed answered was the issue with eth0 in linux taking forever to load up (although I may be a hardware wiz, linux is still new to me).
flighterdoc said:A couple of simple things, and one kind of technical thing:
First, change your wireless network SSID to something non-standard (ie, "wireless" is pretty lame). Turn SSID broadcast OFF.
These two things will protect you from most of the neighbors getting into your stuff.
If you want to go an extra step, enable WEP. You have to do this both at the router and on each computer. This is fair encryption, not great but OK, and probably won't slow things down too much.
Personally, I only do the SSID stuff.
The specific steps to do this are hardware specific, but your owners manual should have the steps reequired.
Have fun!
Alexander99 said:I have another question for the nice tech geniuses that helped me out before. So I successfully installed a wireless network at my place. Everything's working like a charm (no loss of connection, etc) except I seem to have lost some performance.
When I had my computer plugged directly to the cable modem via an ethernet cable and ethernet card, I used to get ~3 mbits/sec download speeds according to one website. I used the same website to check my download speed and now, after switching to wireless, it's 1.3-1.4 mbits/sec and not much faster than that.
How do I get my download speeds back up to >2.5 mbits/sec? I'm on a g network so the theoretical highest speed should be way over 3mbits/sec (I think they advertise 54.) Suggestions would be appreciated.
Neuronix said:As far as I know, it's whichever driver initializes first. There are also ways of setting this manually. So, no, it shouldn't be important.
Gleevec said:Is your ethernet card in your laptop 802.11g as well?
Maybe check out the settings on the WAP and see if you accidentally (or it was by default) have a max speed setting?
bewitched1081 said:if you ever need to fix something in your comp then try searching for it on the net. i fixed three of my most irritating comp problems that way and found that the ignorant people at gateway wasted tons of my time. God bless them.
A good way would be to keep your OS (Windows XP) and Applications on one partition (C and all your data on D:N1DERL& said:Hi TWT,
I had a question about my computer.... it has a 13 gb crive and a 120 gb d: drive. Where should I be installing my games, documents, pics? Should I not install anything on the c:? Or what sort of programs, if any, need to be on the the c:?
Also, I was thinking about buying a printer that can scan, copy, print, and fax? What are your thoughts on this?
Thanks!
You can buyBubbleBobble said:I have a question. I've got a wireless setup in my house, but since the router is at one corner of the house, the signal doesn't quite reach the opposite corner. This happens to be my room, which is most annoying.
I'm thinking about getting a signal repeater, but they seem costly, and at any rate, I have some no-name router pumping out signals (i.e. not Belkin or Buffalo or anything decent like that).
Any suggestions?