The CANDIS Blog

Software as a service. Sounds nice doesn’t it? How about utility computing or computing as a service?

Well it is not until you actually start to UNDERSTAND it – that you get to appreciate it. All too often the pundits of tech in society (as nice as they are), like twit.tv, cnet.com and zdnet.com – have a great habit of talking about tech and service – but never having actually done it themselves or can appreciate it at a deeper and more sophisticated level.

Case in point, is the fact that many people go on about “I want a real app, not some web app”. Or, I need to have connectivity while I am in a cross country flight, etc. To me it just seems that some people can’t get with the times from either a tech standpoint, or even from another perspective, say costs.

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I knew the config files were different between 7.4 and 8.1 and that some items merely changed names and some were deprecated.

I used this excellent resource before.

Even the very rudimentary tweaks I did, and with a RAID array that is in a 90% rebuild rate, background initialisation, this 8.1 version is FAST! I have no idea why people use MySQL, it really is such a piece of crud.