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! 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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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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Powershell the switch statement pt 2.

The string value specified in the switch statement’s script block has to exactly match a condition for that condition to equal true. Despite it being unnecessary for exact matches, this would be the same as using the -exact option in a switch statement. There are other options available for use such as -wildcard which lets you use wildcards, and -regex which uses regular expressions. lets look at an example;

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