Comment Citation needed - When/why did GoDaddy switch? (Score 1) 303

by bramp on Monday August 12, 2013 @08:14PM (#44547793) Attached to: Apache Web Server Share Falls Below 50 Percent For First Time Since 2009

I'm curious to find out why GoDaddy switched from Apache to IIS?

Comment Re:Why does linux get this? (Score 5, Informative) 240

by bramp on Thursday September 16, 2010 @08:02AM (#33598070) Attached to: Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux

Did you even look at the page? There is a 64bit version for Windows!

Comment Re:Excel Charts (Score 3, Funny) 187

by bramp on Sunday August 29, 2010 @10:59PM (#33412128) Attached to: Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-Sort Barrier, With GPUs

I've also found this annoying when reading papers. Perhaps I just spend too much time learning how to use gnuplot so that my graphs look nice.

Comment Re:Google maps once told me to cross a bridge that (Score 1) 699

by bramp on Monday May 31, 2010 @09:16PM (#32413140) Attached to: Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues

hehe if only.

Comment Google maps once told me to cross a bridge that di (Score 1) 699

by bramp on Monday May 31, 2010 @06:48PM (#32411976) Attached to: Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues

Visiting Ghent (in Belgium) one time, Google maps told me to cross a bridge that didn't exist to get from the train station to my hotel. I did consider swimming, but instead spent 30minutes walk along the river to the next bridge.

Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option 176

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @12:31PM from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

KirinMercury writes "Google began offering an encrypted option for Web searchers on Friday and said it planned to roll it out for all of its services eventually. People who want to use the more secure search option can type 'https://www.google.com' into their browser, scrambling the connection so the words and phrases they search on, and the results that Google displays, will be protected from interception." Note that you need the 'www' for it to work. Dropping it redirects you to a non-ssl page. You might have read this on Saturday, but if you missed it, it's still worth knowing.

Comment Re:Missing option (Yeah, I know) (Score 1) 648

by bramp on Sunday April 25, 2010 @11:13AM (#31974628) Attached to: When We Finally Meet Aliens, They Will Probably Be...

surely 200C/375F/Gas 5 for 2 hours will solve that problem?

Comment It should be released and under a free licence! (Score 3, Interesting) 505

by bramp on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @10:50AM (#31071946) Attached to: Call For Scientific Research Code To Be Released

I've always been a big fan of releasing my academic work under a BSD licence. My work is funded by the taxpayers, so I think the taxpayers should be able to do what they like with my software. So I fully agree that all software should be released. It is not always enough to just publish a paper, but you should release your code so others can fully review the accuracy of your work.

Comment Re:fully working Stargate! (Score 1) 131

by bramp on Friday January 29, 2010 @02:39PM (#30952950) Attached to: Stargate Props Going Up For Auction

surely you need two fully working Stargates? One is kind of pointless.

Comment Code what you know best (Score 5, Insightful) 310

by bramp on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @02:13PM (#30834952) Attached to: What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need?

You should code whatever you need. If you code something others need, you will either do it wrong, or get bored. Do what you know best.

Comment Re:My own more detailed analysis (Score 1) 275

by bramp on Monday December 07, 2009 @02:22PM (#30355786) Attached to: How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?)

This is the second time. On the first Google DNS article, and now here. I'm just trying to drive traffic to my blog. Don't worry, this time it seems to have worked so I'll stop my shameless advertising :)

Comment My own more detailed analysis (Score 5, Informative) 275

by bramp on Monday December 07, 2009 @12:34PM (#30354324) Attached to: How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?)

I ran my own set of experiments benchmarking both Google DNS and OpenDNS as well as two UK ISPs. I showed more detailed results, and infer some information about how these systems are run. http://bramp.net/blog/google-dns-benchmarked

Comment Re:That was pretty fast... (Score 2, Insightful) 129

by bramp on Sunday December 06, 2009 @09:23AM (#30342748) Attached to: DARPA Network Challenge Lasts All of 9 Hours

If you offered them $40,000 I bet they could.

Comment Re:Google DNS Benchmarks (Score 1) 213

by bramp on Saturday December 05, 2009 @07:22AM (#30334076) Attached to: A Look At the Safety of Google Public DNS

wow, Where are you? and how many hops (with traceroute) are you away from each server?

Comment Google DNS Benchmarks (Score 2, Interesting) 213

by bramp on Friday December 04, 2009 @01:24PM (#30325708) Attached to: A Look At the Safety of Google Public DNS

I ran some tests against Google DNS and some other DNS providers to measure if Google DNS was actually faster than say OpenDNS, or my local ISP. The results showed OpenDNS completely outperformed Google, but Google did do better than two local ISPs. Read my blog entry about this.