Since Paul is a lazy bastard I guess I will have to do this follow-up relating the Firefox Download Day.
They did indeed get their world record, congratulations I guess, I still use IE8 myself, but all the same, good work. Read about it here.
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
I got myself a 2007 model G15 keyboard
Frankly I prefer the old 2005 model (which I still primarily use) it had
- More ‘G’ keys (some argue that 18 keys and 3 banks is too many, I don’t)
- Spin wheel volume control
- Bigger LCD
- Bigger in General
- Brighter Backlight LEDs (from what I can tell)
One of the ‘additions’ to the new model is that it now comes default (but changeable) inverted which makes things look extremely crap in my opinion.
And with the new smaller size of the screen all programs go to the extreme edge of the screen which to me, makes it look cramped (see above) compared to the old model with it’s 2-3 pixel gap at the edge (see below).
I supose it is worth mentioning it is slightly cheaper about $88 retail compared the the 2005 models arround $100 from what i can remember.
Anyway, a good keyboard, now used on my secondary computer, the one i posted this on.
I Finally got around to upgrading the Web server to Windows Server 2008, quite awhile ago actually but i am only posting now, This means the website is now run on IIS7 which I like, mostly, i find it easyer to set up certain things like default documents, certificates, etc.
IIS7 also makes good use of the 512 MB NTFS RAMDisk that i actually store the website files on and combined with IIS7 ‘FastCGI’ provides extreme file read/write times.
But in some cases it does take some adjusting, it took me a while to realise where they moved the port settings for the website to but once found it did seem like a nice place for it.
And of course the interface is FAR superior with a much more seamless flow to it as opposed to IIS6 which just felt like a crap version of Windows Explorer. I suppose one of the reasons I like the interface more is that is has got more of a ‘Vista’ feel to it (I like Vista) which runs smooth.
The Server has also had an extreme Hardware Upgrade, mainly because Server 2008 wouldn’t install on the old hardware, from:
- Intel Pentium 3, 800 MHz
- 768 MB Ram
- 40 GB Hard Disk
- 120W Power Supply
- USB 1.1, obviously
To:
- Intel Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz
- 3 GB Ram
- 120 GB Hard Disk
- 350W Power Supply
- USB 2.0, Yay
I suppose that was what contributed mostly to the speed increase but I am sure ‘FastCGI’ at least added a bit.
I supose to sum it all up, i like Windows Server 2008, much more then Windows Server 2003 R2.