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3
Aug

My search for the best webhost…

   Posted by: Vlad    in Web

Previously I wrote about my search for the best webhost. Finally I settled with Steadfast. I was so impressed with the litespeed web server that I installed it on my own server at work, and i do most of my testing work on it. But this was not over for me, so I searched for another webhost with more features. The quest lead me to this site: web hosting rating, where I found some objective reviews. Based on them I chose Bluehost, which gave me unlimited space, a free domain, secured POP3 and IMAP, and most importantly ssh access.  The overall speed was very good, it had plenty of features (most of them I never used), so I was generally pleased. The only thing that bothered me was a small downtime of one hour. I made this decision mostly based on the reviews on Web Hosting Rating which unlike other sites contained both positive and negative ones, which took me a few hours to read. So if you want to decide by yourself based on others’ experiences rather than someone telling you “pick that one”, this is the place to go. I read a lot of forums adn reviewing sites, and the opinions of the best webhost are very different, but this one made me think that for a few dollars I can try by myself and find something that is best suited for me. So my recommendation for you is to read as many reviews as you can and than try for yourself and make a lot of backups in case you need to move everything from one host to another.

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25
Jul

Save virtual machine on NTFS drives

   Posted by: Vlad    in Linux

I usually dual boot my PC with Windows and Linux. For the moment I still heavily use Windows so most of my information is stored on NTFS drives. My linux ext3 partition is only 10 GB wich is more than enough. But I recently installed VMware server on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and obviously I was forced to save my virtual machines on one of the larger windows partitions. That was o problem for my system, because everything I did I couldn’t PowerOn the virtual machine, with the following error message: “Unable to connect to the MKS: Pipe: Read failed.” After a lot of searching I found this solution. Edit as root the main .vmx file and add this line:

mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

Save it and you are ready to use your virtual machine.

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21
Jul

HTC Diamond Impressions

   Posted by: Vlad    in Mobile

htctouchdiamond.jpg      A month ago I decided to change my Nokia N70 with a smarter phone, so I purchased an E-Ten Glofiish X800. I read a lot of online reviews and I decided that the generous processor and display resolution was enough to make me proud of my new phone. Besides that the large community from ETEN Users should keep me away from any future problem.

But soon after this I started being dissapointed by the lack of memory. I like having the newest applications, and I test my gadgets to the max, and the 64 Mb of RAM made this very difficult. So after a little tweaking with some custom ROMs, I decided that I need more RAM. So I oriented towards other smart phones. In my search I found the newly appeared HTC Diamond. It had a 528 processor, 192 Mb Ram, a VGA display, and it was optimized for touch. I bought it and even by this moment, more than two weeks later, I still am excited with it. Every day I find some new tricks and it seems that the HTC team did a very good job with this device. All the applications I needed, like iGO 2008, work very smooth, the telephone application is very responsive, and even the new TouchFlo plugin works quite well despite what everybody says.

So for the moment this smartphone meets my requirements and I recommend it to everyone.

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