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Comment on Fine tuning a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) server by PythonSucks

PythonSucks — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:39:11 +0000

I liked this part:

One important thing to don’t forget is
whatever you tune on your server, that
will never be enough if you have a
bloody developed programs running
on it !

So true, and using python as one of the first commentators suggested would be a very BAD idea for just that reason.

It would appear the author of python is a control freak, and rather than following standard, time-proven conventions, he instead chose to impose HIS very awkward style on everyone he uses the language.

That being the case, most people have trouble wrapping their head around python since it's *NOTHING* like C (or other traditional languages, for that matter). PHP and even PERL use C-like constructs where it makes sense, so it's easier to transition from a traditional programming background to those particular languages.

That means less garbage code for those of us maintaining production servers to have to tune around.

Honestly, if I had to work with python I'd probably quit on the spot. It's THAT bad!

Comment on How to flush DNS Cache in Mac OS X ? by Jack Palance

Jack Palance — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:02:54 +0000

I can confirm dscacheutil -flushcache also works with 10.6 and lookupd -flushcache works with 10.3

Comment on Flash – How to fix the “Security sandbox violation: BitmapData.draw” by urdnaxela

urdnaxela — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:26:36 +0000

here is how to fix the crossdomain snapshot Sandbox Security Violation for the BitmapDate.draw():
http://www.thebluepipe.com/Developer/tutorials/...

Comment on CLI workaround for Windows XP : Doing a pause in a batch script by Marcin Dabrowski

Marcin Dabrowski — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:11:42 +0000

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Comment on Determine which Windows OS version is running by Michael Klement

Michael Klement — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:45:13 +0000

Note that this no longer works from W2K3 on, as any identifying name has been removed from the output of 'ver.exe'.

For instance, on a Vista system you may get:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]

You can, however, extract the major and minor version from the output using 'for /f', which implies the OS edition - but only to a degree: Vista and W2K8, as well as Windows 7 and W2K8 R2 are built on the same kernel, and thus report the same version numbers.