With more and more people moving towards using a global DNS system (like Google DNS and OpenDNS) the speed advantages of a CDN may be cancelled out.
Most of the major CDNs use geotargeting based on where the DNS is being resolved from. For example Facebook’s CDN solution (using Akamai) resolves static.ak.fbcdn.net to 210.55.501.200, a 5ms response time. Using Google’s public DNS server (8.8.8.8) the same domain resolves to 72.246.43.42, 72.246.43.32, a 200ms response time.
So while using Google’s DNS/OpenDNS may save a few ms while resolving a domain, it may slow down a site by putting the CDN pops further away from end users. Until CDN’s can work with these public DNS providers the internet may become slower for those using these services.
We just recieved a couple of new computers today, shiny new Dell Studio XPS 435MT boxes. As everyone here still runs XP 32bit I decided to reinstall the new computers with the same OS, so we didn’t run into any compatability problems. The problem is Dell doesn’t support any other operating systems on these computers other than Vista 64bit!
After searching around the internet for a couple of hours I found the drivers needed, they are as follows:
Network (Intel 82567):
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=3003&DwnldID=4275&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Professional&lang=eng
Chipset (Intel X58):
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=816&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go!
Graphics (ATI Radeon 4850):
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp
Audio (Realtek HD Audio):
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3
I hope this helps anyone with a similar problem
The Webby Awards are upon us again for the 13th year. It’s ironic though that awards that celebrate the best on the internet have one of the worst designed sites. The Webby People’s Voice site (http://pv.webbyawards.com) is hard to register on and vote. This has discouraged a lot of people from voting for their favourite websites.
I had to find out the size of all our images on a site today. This was the easiest and fastest way to do it
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find /home/username/public_html -name ‘*.png’ -printf “%s\n”|awk ‘{sum+=$0}END{print sum}’
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Here’s a great list of photography resources: http://mashable.com/2007/06/23/photography-toolbox/
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