By the way, if your cables are limiting your speeds, it will show up as dropped packets. You can see if that’s happening by telnetting into your managed switch, if you have one: “Link encap:Ethernet H

As to the relationship of transfer speed and bandwidth: the bandwidth of the cable is an inherent property, and the transfer speed is what the system experiences when using that cable. The cable bandw

Tracy, if you’re using switches as opposed to hubs (and who uses hubs anymore?), each cable only sees the traffic to the endpoint of that cable. Only the switching fabric sees the aggregate traffic. A

“Most of the stuff on my network is WAY below those data speeds (printers, amps etc) but some (such as streaming 4k on an AppleTV) really can benefit from better data.” With my Apple 4K TV, average do

Tracy, I’ve found the various category speed ratings to be hugely conservative. To give you an example, I discovered recently that one long 1 GbE run in my house – about 300 feet – from the main serve

FWIW, here's a review of five WordPress backup solutions: http://blog.kasson.com/?p=15925 Jim

Tracy, speaking of hosting, do you use AWS? I use them for a few things, but not web hosting. I find the user interface to be daunting. Rackspace, who I use for Exchange server hosting, and who I've f

Tracy, a funny thing just happened. I replied to your last post in the thread about photographers and web sites. I changed the title to reflect the fact that I was bringing up a new topic. When I was

Thanks for the information on your methodology. I appreciate that. WRT the CPA, I was repeating what the staff had told me. They said that they'd get the site running again, and it would run for a whi

Actually, Tracy, I meant that hiring someone to do the work to be orthogonal to the choice of tools and platform. I hired Robin to do the CSS implementation that I just migrated from, after all. She u

JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based (instead of discrete cosine transform) approach that is in general better than the 1992 JPEG. However, most would say that there are better keyboard layouts than QWERTY, b

Most serious photographers these days have or want to share/advertise their work on the web. I've recently completed a project to convert my web site (coded by Robin Ward; thank you, Robin) to a (actu

Like Tracy said, remember to back up first. And make sure your backup media is bootable. My upgrade failed in a way that defeated the conventional recovery methods: http://www.kasson.com/bleeding_edge

Tracy, I recently did a blog post on when ppi matters, and when it doesn't: http://blog.kasson.com/?p=15771 Might be useful in the context of this thread, although you are completely right when you sa

I tried to use Crashplan. I have a full-duplex 50 Mb/s fiber ISP link. Initially, upload speeds were in the 5 Mb/s region, but dropped lower and lower as time went by. After several months, my 6 TB ba

The answer is highly scanner-dependent and image-dependent, and also on the effect you're trying to schieve. I have used drum scanners, Imacon/Hasselblad Flextight scanners, and flatbed scanners. Drum

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Thanks for setting this up, Tracy.

I'm starting a thread for questions about the board itself. Maybe Tracy can help us, and maybe we can help each other. First question: why is my signature appearing twice at the bottom of posts? Secon

Atlex often has really good prices on printer paper, sometimes shockingly so, but not consistently so. They're worth checking. http://www.atlex.com/ Sometimes their packing for shipment leaves somethi