7Zip 9.04 compression times

Using a 547Mb MySQL backup file I observed the following compression times for the respective compression settings. 1 > 30.18 Mb in 22s 2 > 30.18 Mb in 23s 3 > 29.12 Mb in 26s 4 > 29.12 Mb in 26s 5 > 22.03 Mb in 4m10s 6 > 22.03 Mb 7 > 19.51 Mb […]

Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address

If the Ubuntu Server installer has set your server to use DHCP, you will want to change it to a static IP address so that people can actually use it. Changing this setting without a GUI will require some text editing, but that’s classic linux, right? Let’s open up the /etc/network/interfaces file. I’m going to […]