- 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). #
Category: All
All posts across the whole website belong to this category. They might also belong to some other categories as well, but this one holds all of them. Hence the descriptive name – All.
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. I even tested it on our server. And as expected, I saw the huge difference.
$ du -sh home 819M 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.