Eee PC 901 SSD and SD card performance/benchmark

Because I take my Eee PC 901 always with me, I'm pretty sure it will be broken in less than two years. The last Subnotebook I had had was broken because it fell down a stairway. That's when I decided I will never carry a 1k € notebook with me anymore, and use a Netbook in the future.

Knowing that, I wanted to store my user profile on a disk that I can easily detach from the EEE when it's broken. The C:\ SSD is build-in so no chance to detach is. Only solution left: Either the D:\ drive (the 12 GB SSD) or a Secure Digital card. Because I have a lot of different SD cards around here, I have done some performance test with CrystalDiskMark. The list below shows the results, sorted by Random Write 4 KB (bigger values are better).



I now have my user profile on a Kingston Ultimate 133x disk and so far everything works fine.

ImageCodr.org Update

I just made some changes on ImageCodr.org.

Some bug fixing: We had a typo inside the footer which is now corrected. Also, the example picture we were using is no longer licensed under a CC license, so clicking on the example link resulted in an error. We are now using a new photo which is also just looking great.

Finally, some people wanted to have a tooltip when hovering over the image or the CC license button (currently we only fill the ALT tag for screen readers). ImageCodr does now also fill the TITLE attribute which will cause Firefox and other browsers to display a tooltip as well.

No idea what ImageCodr does? See this example!

MySQL Administrator Backup Error 2003 (10061)

I just tried to use MySQL Administrator to make a scheduled backup. As instructed, I created a backup project and saved the connection info.

Using the GUI the Backup worked, but executing the command line (that is run with Scheduled Tasks) didn’t work. It simply log the following to the event log:

Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) (Error 2003).

I looked at the command it generates and couldn’t find an error:

"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Tools for 5.0\MySQLAdministrator.exe" "-UDC:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.ACME\Application Data\MySQL\" "-cROOT-LOCAL" "-bpFullBackup" "-btD:\MySQL5\backup\" "-bxFullBackup"

Until I realized that the extra “-“ inside my saved connection “ROOT-LOCAL” might confuse MySQL Administrator. I renamed this connection info to "ROOTLOCAL" and change the parameter in the command line: Bingo, everything is working.

Great, even today argument parsers are causing trouble…