I wish XEN would hurry on up and manage to virtualise all the hardware (namely audio and high-end graphics) so I could install a "real" virtual install of Windows for playing games. Wine is getting on my <redacted>.
Does it count as an answer if I do install WMP11 and make it "work" by playing audio and videos BUT here is the catch. You can only use the main menu when listening to music and can only see video in wmp11 fullscreen mode
You can use most of the WMP11 functionalities but only from the wmp menu
A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network.
When properly designed and implemented, a CDN can improve access to the data it caches by increasing access bandwidth and redundancy and reducing access latency. Data content types often cached in CDNs include web objects (text, graphics, URLs and scripts), downloadable objects (media files, software, documents), applications, live streaming media, and database queries.
CDN benefits
The capacity sum of strategically placed servers can...
@JorgeCastro I always thought of them as content distribution networks. Funny how many different Ds you can sub in there that work.
And I don't think SE does use a CDN but all the static stuff is separated. They push all the images through sstatic.net which is owned by them and the IP for it (as requested from the UK) is a New York ip address. When you're using a true edge-location CDN (eg Akami, or Amazon CloudFront) when you request things you get them from a more local IP. I suspect SE just has a few cheapy servers pumping out the static files for all the sites. Edit: this is slightly wrong.
We're looking at putting our static content – JavaScript, CSS, images, etc. – on a CDN.
Currently we're serving this content from http://sstatic.net. While this works great, it means that I (sitting in Berlin) have to get my CSS from all the way across the Atlantic, because the serve...
@JorgeCastro CloudFront isn't bad actually. I use it for a client who does online coaching videos. It's actually cheaper than the standalone (read: non-CDN) Flash Media Server he was renting before we switched. A lot cheaper. $3 per month vs $99.
People "burn out" because they're getting "burned." As others have said, if they're only pulling normal work weeks (40-45 hrs) during normal hours (not any forced third shift goofyness, which has proven health detriments), then you need to find what's missing.
Since you have many short-ish proj...
I have 2 Nvidea graphic cards installed in my desktop and have connected 4 monitors to the machine.
I have activated and enabled all four at the correct resolution using the "NVIDEA X Server" GUI editor, but I can't move a window from 1 display to another.
How can I do this?
over the summer, I had to read 4 books, and write 3-4 page essays on each of the books, along with keeping a giant list of vocab words for each book, AND explaining the main themes of the novel
Sucked for me, especially since I did the whole thing 2 days before school and I only read 2 of the 4 books >.<
This question keeps coming up a lot on Stack Overflow for some reason:
What was Stack Overflow built with?
Some even wondered if Stack Overflow was built in Ruby on Rails. I consider that a compliment!
This question has been covered in some detail in our podcasts, of course, but I know not everyone has time to listen to a bunch of audio footage to find the answer to their question. So, in that spirit, here’s the technology “stack” of Stack Overflow, the stuff Jarrod, Geoff, and I used to build it: …
Posted by Kyle Brandt (@kylembrandt) on February 11th, 2011
I thought as a break form the normal prose some of our readers might enjoy a short overview of the Stack Exchange Network (including Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User) from a technical view:
95 Million Page Views a Month
800 HTTP requests a second
180 DNS requests a second
55 Megabits per second
1 Rack with Peak Internet in OR (Hosts our chat and Data Explorer)
2 Racks with Peer 1 in NY (Hosts the rest of the Stack Exchange Network)
12 Web Servers (Windows Server 2008 R2)
2 Database Servers (Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2) …
I have a notebook, dell inspiron 13r.
The problem is, I cant use internet c onnection when the notebook booted without wired connection. But when it is wired, it seems ok to use internet on both wired connection and wireless connection. When started with wired, I can use my wireless device which...
I am newbie on Linux Ubuntu machine.
I logged in to the Ubuntu with username: student.
There are some directories only allowed root user to access, for example /var/lib/mysql ,(I know I can use sudo to access but it is not what I want). If I want to get the access privilege on those directories...
Great answer: What is the way to submit a patch to fix all the damage that LP: #600941 causes? http://askubuntu.com/questions/82631/what-is-the-way-to-submit-a-patch-to-fix-all-the-damage-that-lp-600941-causes/82648#82648 #development
I am on a Ubuntu machine.
I have make a directory under root directory, by:
$ sudo mkdir /hello
$ sudo mkdir /hello/bye
Then I mount tmpfs with size 1024M to /hello/bye by:
$ sudo echo "tmpfs /hello/bye tmpfs size=1024M,mode=0777 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
$ sudo mount -a
In future ,...
While installing Ubuntu 11.10 a months ago I had not allotted any swap space, I now came to know that there would be no Hibernate option without Swap space.
Is it possible to do it Now?, What if the drives mess up? I have 4 gigabytes of ram, a 500 GB disk and I'm dual-booting with Windows 7.
I problem after problem ...
I spend above and it has happened again, I Pungo an image with what happens to me, with some letters on the screen I get a horizontal grating that prevents me from seeing the letter in comfort and fluency, I passed in the browser firefox and also throughout the system,...
So, only use sudo if you want the resulting changes to be owned by "root". Like changes in the filesystem...gotcha. I've had a bad habit develop there.
I've got a new Ubuntu installation set up and running, it servers PHP pages on Apache, everything works normally.
I'm trying to install a PHP-PEAR package called SCA_SDO, there's an issue with some programs I'm unfamiliar with such as phpize (prepares a PHP extension for compiling), and advanced...
@rogcg Your file doesn't have execute permissions :) chmod 0700 ./file will give it execute. If you want anyone to be able to execute it just run chmod +x ./file
Now that Gnome3 and Unity are here lots of users, like me, want to migrate to a more usable desktop. LXDE it's simple and fast. But not as good as we want.
I think that LXDE can attract a bunch of new users with some little changes, that make it look and feel more like Gnome2 (that was simply gr...
Most Operating Systems that have a "App Store" native application also have a Web version of their app store where applications can be added to a wish list, purchased and/or downloaded. I think it would be a good idea for Ubuntu Software Centre to also have a Web version.
Since its not a good id...
Linux Mint IS Ubuntu. It has all of the same packages, the same kernel, the same everything, but the creators of Mint add on to it. Which is why Mint runs its own variation of gnome-shell, and/or MATE. Mint should be supported here, as long as the questions asked are about similarities that Mint ...
We're looking at putting our static content – JavaScript, CSS, images, etc. – on a CDN.
Currently we're serving this content from http://sstatic.net. While this works great, it means that I (sitting in Berlin) have to get my CSS from all the way across the Atlantic, because the serve...
I have 2 Nvidea graphic cards installed in my desktop and have connected 4 monitors to the machine.
I have activated and enabled all four at the correct resolution using the "NVIDEA X Server" GUI editor, but I can't move a window from 1 display to another.
How can I do this?
Installer crashes at 80% Ubuntu 11.10 on Dell OPtiflex 390 Intel Core i3 3.1 Ghz - 4GB RAM .
I am newbie on Linux Ubuntu machine.
I logged in to the Ubuntu with username: student.
There are some directories only allowed root user to access, for example /var/lib/mysql ,(I know I can use sudo to access but it is not what I want). If I want to get the access privilege on those directories...
While installing Ubuntu 11.10 a months ago I had not allotted any swap space, I now came to know that there would be no Hibernate option without Swap space.
Is it possible to do it Now?, What if the drives mess up? I have 4 gigabytes of ram, a 500 GB disk and I'm dual-booting with Windows 7.
I've been using "gksudo nautilus" and "sudo nautilus" through 'Alt+F2'. What's the difference? They look very similar!
