Monk’s Blog

Here’s some marketing slogans I see and I will poke fun at it. I use one, so I may consider myself a hypocrite, but I know { what I’m doing, and how to code }

Quote: “We used an OPTIMIZED Windows 200x system. ”
Answer: You can’t optimize windows. Adding registry tweaks do nothing to the system, and if you think that is the case, provide the tweaks / or proof to back up your statement

Quote: “We used a CUSTOM CentOS Distro.”
Answer: CentOS is a custom distro, so if you mod it, it would be a modified custom custom CentOS distro. right?

Quote: “We use a optimized kernel”
Answer: Stripping a kernel via menuconfig doesn’t mean it will run any better than a stock one. Sure, the size of it will be smaller, and smaller code always runs faster on the stack due to the length of instructions will be smaller. Also, the people who make these claims have no idea about anything. They blindly use patches and try to get FPS to be stable, when in reality, FPS will NEVER EVER be the same due to interrupt latency.

Quote: “We use 10gE ethernet”
Answer: Bullshit. No GSP in THE WORLD NEEDS OR USES 10GE. BOTTOM LINE.

Drama

Summit uses a hybrid FreeBSD / Linux environment. We’ve been using tcadmin on top of mono for ages (giggle), due to the fact I didn’t have enough time / resources to write in in perl. I refuse to write a control panel in PHP, because PHP apps are cpu expensive and you need a bloated webserver like apache 1.3+.. cgi scripts run fine on small servers like thttpd.

Anyways, on to now. The FTP server inside of tcadmin blows ass. It corrupts map uploads (mono problem?) and generally is unmanageable.. .

We’re now using a custom FTP server (pure-ftpd) with full chroot support and a database backend. It’s pretty nifty, and it works good. Most importantly, IT DOESNT CORRUPT MAP UPLOADS!

On to other things.

I work for cPanel now. I’m doing tech support, it’s pretty interesting I guess. It’s a part time job to get caught up on some past bills.

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