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I use the 'pactester' tool to troubleshoot pac files: pacparser - A library to make your web software pac (proxy auto-config) files intelligent. Comes with much useful pactester tool now. - Google Project Hosting An example of its use: pactester -p "\\myserver\someshare\mypacfilel.pac" -u "http://www.google.co.uk/" -h "google.co.uk"

Your choice.

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This is for Freeradius. The concepts are similar for all Radius systems, though the implementations might differ. guide/Concepts guide/Basic configuration HOWTO

If you're worried, you could take the easy option and run the lessons through an online python interpreter. The kids could copy and paste to/from the interpreter to save their work. Here's one run by Google: Interactive Shell or this one http://pyeval.appspot.com/index.html

The reviews are bad. It's very buggy and was not ready for release, by most accounts. https://plus.google.com/u/0/111104121194250082892/posts/aCiB7kTLXTh My OS of choice is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. 12.10 was unreliable for me - I had too many lockups and wierd delays. 12.04 is totally stable for me.

iPad apps are OK here. I use ACLs to define the headers and URLs, then use Squid's http_access rules to combine the header ACL with URL ACLs. This works OK. On the URLs, have you wild-carded the URLs? e.g., in Squid, .gcsp.cddbp.net means *.gcsp.cddbp.net

I use Squid on Linux, but here are my user-agent headers which need to go through: iTunes oscpd QuickTime GCSL GCSP InetURL/1.0 AppleCoreMedia Here' are the URLs .apple.com .gcsp.cddbp.net .icloud.com ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net .mzstatic.com .verisign.com

Phew. No ribbon.

Nice article about Ubuntu phone's interface. The Inside Story Of Ubuntu's Gesture-Centric Smartphone | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

It's an old version of Ubuntu, but I think you don't need to bother with the mount & umount commands. Look in the /media folder and see if the CD has automatically mounted there. If so, copy the files from wherever that might be (eg /media/cdrom) to the /tmp folder and carry on. If that doesn;t work, it could be that the instructions are correct, but you haven't made a directory for your mount point on your file system. Do this with the command mkdir /media/cdrom then start the instructions again.

They've made a cardinal sin in reporting that 2 is a prime number.

Not into it myself, but for those who like to follow the superb owl, here's a nice diagram. https://twitter.com/MrBButterfield/status/298056756553203712/photo/1

I've contemplated it, researched it, and decided against it. Well, you're operating on a healthy eye. If it could be guaranteed that it's 100% successful and will be perfect, then I'd do it. I'm not prepared to take the slightest risk with my eyes, any imperfection would drive me nuts, so I'm sticking with contacts. That said, I know quite a few people who've had it done, and it's been great for them.

The odd peak is fine. Don't worry about that. Can you predict when the slowdown will happen?

Hmmm. Was it slow for users during this period of 0 waiting tasks? The waiting tasks graph is the litmus test for bottlenecks. It's quite possible that an SQL routine is blocking others. This can give the impression of an overloaded machine, even when it has adequate capacity.This is a job for SIMS to fix, not you. http://www.sswug.org/articles/viewarticle.aspx?id=56398

You can get these numbers from SQL Activity Monitor. Launch SQL Server Management Studio, right-click your SQL server and choose Activity Monitor. Leave it for a few moments to settle down. Keep your eye on the 'wating tasks' graph. Ideally this number should be 0, but if it's consistently more than a few (I'd say 3 to 4), then your certainly have a bottleneck. Check this figure when the system goes slow.

If you need one now, I'd get a cheap Android and wait. There's going to be a lot of new stuff coming out very soon, see how it pans out. Tizen is going to be big. Be in no doubt Samsung is going to throw a huge amount of weight and money into Tizen. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57564553-94/samsungs-secret-weapon-in-the-mobile-wars-tizen/ The Firefox phone is due in the next few months, this should be very good. http://www.businessinsider.com/firefox-mobile-os-developer-phone-2013-1 Also, the Ubuntu phone is due, but not for a while. This has my favourite interface, but I'm odd in that I love Unity. http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone The new Blackberry models are getting very good reviews.

Trawling through my bookmarks, this is a good in-depth article SQL Server Wait Statistics: Tell me where it hurts - Paul Randal

Good point - you need to check if your SQL schedulers have a backlog. Here's a bit of SQL code (not mine, picked it up from my travels on the net, credits to OP) that show two crucial items of importance for each of your SQL schedulers: Current_task_count and runnable_task_count. An SQL task that is in a 'runnable' state means that it is ready to go but cannot yet be serviced by an SQL scheduler. If the runnable_task_count is more than 0, this is a backlog and indicates that, at the time the query was run, there were jobs waiting but couldn't be serviced. --If you are seeing lots of SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD in your Wait States, that is a very stong indicator of CPU pressure. -- You can run the DMV query to confirm that: -- Check SQL Server Schedulers to see if they are waiting on CPU SELECT scheduler_id, current_tasks_count, runnable_tasks_count FROM sys.dm_os_schedulers WHERE scheduler_id < 255 --If you see the runnable tasks count above zero, that is cause for concern, and if you see it in double digits for any length of time, that is cause for extreme concern!

Your next step is SQL Activity Monitor. I'd suggest looking for blocking processes, keep an eye on the 'recent expensive queries' when you have a slowdown. Performance Analysis Using SQL Server 2008 Activity Monitor Tool If I was a betting man, I'd put money on a disk IO bottleneck. Is your database and log file on the same volume? And on the same volume as the OS? Are you using RAID? http://www.scribd.com/doc/28721265/Poor-Disk-Performance-Time-Outs-Database-and-the-SQL-Server-Error-Log Here's a useful 'best practices' guide about SQL on VMWare. http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/sql_server_virt_bp.pdf

Throwing all the memory at SQL can cause an apparently good spec'd machine to behave poorly. In theory, SQL should release its memory to the OS on demand, but this article explains why this sometimes doesn't happen and why it's best to specify memory limits for your system. Suggested Max Memory Settings for SQL Server 2005/2008 - SQLServerCentral In any case, SQL Activity Monitor is your best friend.

I've never tried a 29er, but people who've tried them say they'd never to back to 26"

Interesting insights on that wacky part of the world... https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/