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by myelin 18y ago
I remember getting a game demo back in the early '90s on a 3.5" disk that would work on both DOS and another platform - I think Amiga. It didn't last long when I tried to copy a file to it, unfortunately!
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Power generation by burning silicion from desert sand.(stuff.co.nz)
2 points by myelin 18y ago|0 comments
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by myelin 19y ago
Cygwin is all you need if you want to compile and run UNIX command-line apps on your Windows box. The cool thing about coLinux is that it's actually Linux underneath, so you can have a complete Debian install, with apt-get etc. Postgres, M
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by myelin 19y ago
Yep - coLinux is the kernel plus a text console. Using coLinux is very much like having a headless Linux box on the network. andLinux is coLinux and a Windows X server, all packaged up nicely so you can run GUI apps.
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by myelin 19y ago
coLinux is great; have been using it for years, first on XP, now on Vista. The networking is a bit tricky to get going, but it's very convenient and feels "lighter" than VMWare. Have never tried VirtualBox though.
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How other people can kill your web server: no fun and little profit(myelin.co.nz)
14 points by myelin 19y ago|0 comments
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by myelin 19y ago
I think there is, although all I've been doing is limiting how many CPUs a VM is allowed to use. Every VM starts out with vcpus=1, and we add more when the load factor gets up too high. This is quite effective on a server with 8 cores (two
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by myelin 19y ago
Phil Pearson here from Broadband Mechanics. We use Xen for all our hosting... the killer feature for us is the performance isolation. If one site gets too busy for its VM, it might go down, but it doesn't hurt the other sites on the same
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Decentralised social networking(myelin.co.nz)
5 points by myelin 19y ago|0 comments