Archive for April, 2007

Proprietary Zip Compression

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 30 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Tech Tips

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 [...]

The Internet at Warp 9

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 [...]

Kontera and John Chow

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 23 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Marketing

I’m in the process of joining affiliate programs to make more money with my web sites. I’ve had web sites since 1998 but have only recently started making an effort to make money with them.

The first affiliate program I joined was Google Adsense. It’s exciting seeing the money I make from it paying for my [...]

Setting Runlevel for MySQL in Fedora 5

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 17 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Tech Tips

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 [...]

Displaying a Web Site in an IFrame

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 for [...]

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