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Quick dirty fix to speed up qmail for bulk mailings

We were getting around 2 mails per second with qmail for a bulk emailing, which was not fast enough and rather than try and patch qmail to fix a bunch of problems,  we chose to put the qmail queue on a temporary file system.
It appears that one of qmails bottlenecks is disk access (so perhaps [...]

How much disk space is “all” the music

I wanted to know how much disk space all the music ever released would take up and couldnt find an approximation, so I put together this to give me a ball park figure.
If you add up all the abums on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Albums_by_year
It gives 81,708
At around 4mb per track and 10 tracks per album thats
81708*4MBytes*10 = 3268320 MBytes
3268320 [...]

F100 Technical Fault on Meile W3824WPS Washing machine

I’ve got a Miele W3824WPS washing machine, and I accidentally forgot to close the drain door at the bottom of the washing machine when doing a regular clean. This triggered an error “Technical  F100″  Fault nothing seemed to clear the error and I couldn’t find anything on the Internet about it. After a little but [...]

Earth Info – Some links about Earth

The Earth from Space

If you found this page you may have been searching for something about The Earth, Im sorry to dissapoint you, but here are a few decent links that may get you started on your research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth – Aways a good starting point for your research
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ – Nasa’s Earth observatory
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/ – The Earth Institue at Columbia University
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth.html [...]