Posted by Johan Cyprich on 30 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: How To
I recently received a Zip file which could not be opened with WinZip or WinRar. This wasn’t entirely unexpected since I knew that WinZip and PKWARE developed their own high end Zip compression algorithms. When you use the maximum compression feature in these programs, your files will be compressed using a proprietary technology which will [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 25 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Technology
Two speed records for Internet data transfer were recently broken. On December 30, 2006, the Internet2 team sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second over a 20,000 mile path. The next day the experiment was repeated with a transfer rate of 9.08 GBps. These are the fastest speeds on record for transferring data using standard [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 17 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: How To
I had lots of fun trying to get MySQL to work properly in Fedora 5. The problem I had was that when a user logged out, MySQL would stop running. You need to set the Runlevel to 3 that the database server will continue running when a user logs out. The default settings for MySQL [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Programming
In an earlier post, I demonstrated a simple technique to create a scrollable region on a web page using CSS. While this is a good way to display static text, it doesn’t work for displaying another web page. The inline frame (IFrame) element in HTML will allow you to do this. IFrames are typically used [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 07 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Technology
We have the Russians to thank for the existence of the Internet. It all started with the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957. The Sputnik Program was a series of missions by the Soviet Union to test artificial satellites in earth orbit. The launch terrified the United States. It wasn’t just the fact [...]