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Google’s new tool kit for measuring your ISP’s performance.

mlabThis week Google released a new toolkit for measuring the performance of your broadband connection. This suit aims to give you an idea of your total bandwidth and offer tools that attempt to discern whether your ISP is throttling specific traffic types such as bittorrent.

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Debugging Perl on Linux – Just __END__ it now! <DATA> it later.

The art of debugging differs, some, with each language and it’s specific tools. Perl provides an interesting challenge to programmers since it, like most linux-originating languages, has no real IDE wherein it can be debugged step by step with breakpoints and like methodologies. Instead, the perl programmer must resort to using print statements, logging mechanisms, and then there is the __END__.
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Mime Types

cpanelMime types tell browsers how to handle certain extensions. For example, the text/html mime type equates to .htm, .html, and .shtml extensions on most servers, and this tells your browser to interpret all files with those extensions as HTML files.
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A new SSD by ACard

ACard has a new Solid State Drive that supports up to 64Gb of DDR2. While this particular model ( ANS-9010 ) was designed as a 5.25 drive they also have a model designed for 2.5 drives. While you will be able to increase speed over traditional drives, you won’t be saving any money at $399.00 and no.. Ram isn’t included.

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Building Web Sites for Profit and Fun – The Process.

So now you have the tools of the web developer. You have mastered photoshop, conquered XHTML formatting with CSS, and can develop ajax web components in your sleep, and often do. The tools and skills needed you possess; they are yours. Now it is time to bring them all together with… the process. One process to rule them all, one process to find them. One process to bring them all and in the web-sphere, bind them.
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