- I favorited a YouTube video — Panorama from Times Building, New York http://youtu.be/DOxZa7s4Dv4?a #
- I favorited a YouTube video — Brittany Murphy , Oakenfold P – Faster Kill Pussycat http://youtu.be/uk3Z__7ItJY?a #
- I miss Brittany Murphy. She was hot. And her smile was awesome. Sad. #
- I favorited a YouTube video — House Bloopers http://youtu.be/4T0lT8gJFO0?a #
- I want a new phone. And it should be Android. But with version 2.2 Froyo. Any devices for sale in Europe? Cyprus? Limassol? How much? #
- Got a new dedicated server from Leaseweb for one year. Awesome #hosting Immediate setup and cheap (not horribly expensive at least). #
Author: Leonid Mamchenkov
Day in brief
- If it's not on YouTube, it's not a video! #
- My first ever edit to BestPractical RT3 wiki.Improved AutoSetOwnerForQueue scrip – http://bit.ly/cSqSTg #
- I favorited a YouTube video — The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time http://youtu.be/PSEYXWmEse8?a #
Day in brief
- Joined http://foursquare.com . They have a website version for mobile devices that their apps don't support. Need to go somewhere now. :) #
- Apparently,dedicated server #hosting comes as low as 30EUR/month these days. For 70+ EUR/month you can get a good server. #
- I favorited a YouTube video — Fur TV – Do Condoms Reduce Sensitivity ? http://youtu.be/ny8U346oI6Y?a #
Day in brief
- I favorited a YouTube video — Fedora 13 Goddard http://youtu.be/KbCO0jT6L3Q?a #
- Somehow nobody realized that one of the vital company servers runs on 1GB of RAM. And it's an old 1.6 dual-core machine, staffed with disks. #
- I need a #wordpress plugin to send newsletter using posts of specific category.Subscribe/unsubscribe feature too.Please advise plugin.Thanks #
- I favorited a YouTube video — Football is for girls … try RUGBY http://youtu.be/3icksHJDjA8?a #
- I favorited a YouTube video — This is Rugby http://youtu.be/cEzh2tKgdI4?a #
Zip vs. Bzip2
While investigating an unrelated issue on our backup server, I came across an interesting discussion about gzip vs. bzip2. I was surprised to read on how much slower bzip2 is. Â I even tested it on our server. Â And as expected, I saw the huge difference.
$ du -sh home 819M Â home $ time tar czf test.tar.gz home real 3m29.741s user 1m4.026s sys 0m5.629s $ time tar cjf test.tar.bz2 home real 11m38.751s user 6m19.259s sys 0m7.237s $ ll test.tar* -rw-r--r-- 1 leonid users 365987716 2010-06-29 13:08 test.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 leonid users 390655750 2010-06-29 12:56 test.tar.gz
For such a small difference in size, the compression time difference is huge! Of course, I should play with more parameters, repeat the tests several times, and test the decompression time too. But the above test is still a good indication. Way too many scripts out there use the default parameters and substitute gzip with gzip2 without any testing. That’s obviously asking for trouble.