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Chevy Volt vs Toyota Prius Cost of Ownership

Jun 4, 2011 by Paul White

Now that a few Chevy Volts are out on the road, bloggers have had the opportunity to get a first hand account on the what the real performance results are.  Lyle with GM-Volt.com has been a leader on the blog front to keep all of us updated on the truth behind the volt.  Finally we have some real world numbers to make our up our opinions on Chevy's new ride. So in this article we will care what the real costs of ownership are over a 5 year span.  We compare a 2011 Toyota Prius and a 2011 Chevy Volt.

Debugging Faulting Application w3wp.exe Crashes

May 31, 2011 by Paul White

If your websites are going down, due to your application pool failing, or being automatically shut down after a few application errors, then you have a major problem on your hands.  In my case the symptom was A process serving the application pool suffered a fatal communication error with the Windows Process Activation Service, in my system logs.  If you have each website running in its own application pool then you know which website is going down, but the errors being displayed give you no hints as to the cause.  I recently had a website that was randomly going down.  Sometimes it would go down every few days, and other times it would only crash once a month.  So I finally did some digging for the cause, and found it.  If you don't know where to start in debugging your crashed application pools, this might help.

SDE sixty Scans LED Intelligent Lighting

May 20, 2011 by Paul White

Today I installed some new lights at the Ritz Cabaret. check them out.

How Accurate are Alexa stats for traffic

May 17, 2011 by Paul White

Alexa has been around for a long time, these days many people tend to judge a site's worth by its alexa ranking.  But the question is how accurate is Alexa's traffic stats?  Since I do have my own server with over 40 sites, I have access to the traffic patterns of various sites.  So in this article I will give you the stats so you can decide how much credibility alexa's traffic rankings really deserve.

What ports to open for Vicidial Vicibox Asterisk

May 13, 2011 by Paul White

For those of you who are setting up your own Asterisk based dialer using one of the many variants such as Vicidial, Vicibox, Vicidialnow, or GoAutoDial, you might have found that one of the most painful parts of setting it up is knowing what settings will make it work.  Specifically what ports do you forward from your router, and what special settings do you need to set in your sip.conf file.  After trial and error I have discovered the settings that work. 

Tmobile 3G Sim Card vs 2G Sim Card

May 10, 2011 by Paul White

After being with T-Mobile for a little over a year, I almost had the last straw with poor 3G connectivity. That was until I figured out there are two types of Sim Cards.  2G Sim Cards and 3G Sim Cards. If you have been having dropped calls and poor 3G data coverage, you need to visit a T-Mobile store and they will gladly exchange out your 2G Sim card for a 3G Sim card, and its free too!  I know what you are thinking?  How can I tell which sim card I have?  Read this article for the details.

Ninja 1000 watt professional blender review

Apr 15, 2011 by Paul White

Blender design has come a long way.  I like many have suffered for years using the traditional bottom blade style blenders.  These blenders would mix your smoothies, but if they were too thick, they would suck an air bubble down to the blade where it would free spin, and mix nothing.  Of course you would have to stick a fork or something down so the air bubble could be released, making the whole process of blending a smoothie very tedious and time consuming.  Well my friends the day has come.  I present to you the Ninja Blender.

Internap Houston Data Center Colocation Review

Apr 13, 2011 by Paul White

After being colocated at Internap's Houston Datacenter with FastPCNet for 6 months I feel I have enough experience to give an honest review of the two companies, and their customer support.  So if you have a server and are trying to find a good great The Best datacenter to colocate it, Call John with Fast PC Networks.  He will get you taken care of.

Verizon Thunderbolt and LTE Benchmark Very Fast

Mar 27, 2011 by Paul White

A buddy of mine ( Thomas ) recently upgraded from his old HTC Touch Pro 2 to a HTC Thunderbolt.  Going from Windows Mobile 6.5 to Android 2.2.  I thought this move was a good one, and I asked him to send me some benchmarks on how his new phone performs on Verizon's LTE network ( real 4G ).  What he sent was unbelievable. 

How much traffic can a single server handle

Mar 22, 2011 by Paul White

This question is one of the most asked questions I hear from non IT people.  Of course there is no 100% answer to this.  But what we can do is go through all the different bottle necks in a server and its network, to figure out the theoretical maximum performance of a server.