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More Power
13.Apr.07 | Leave a Comment
Last week, in “The Wonders of 7-zip” I discussed how enabling multi-thread support chopped my nightly backup zip times from 3 hours to just over 1 hours (actually 1.25 hours).
Today I ran the same process on a new server, which is sporting a single, but quad-core Xeon. It did the same job in 30 [...]
Tuesday Misc.
20.Mar.07 | Leave a Comment
Did you catch the new Firefox 2.0.0.3 release today? Based on the release notes, it seems the primary focus was on security. I’ll have to track down the other changes — it seems to be running much better on my work machine since the upgrade (by better, I mean fewer CPU spikes that [...]
