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Why IE Is So Fast ... Sometimes
safrit writes "Finally the scoop on how IE "cheats" a little to up its performance! Do RFCs mean nothing anymore? What's next, Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
From the blog story: 'Internet Explorer on Windows always seems either to run impossibly fast (page requests are fulfilled almost before the mouse button has returned to its original unclicked position), or ridiculously slow...' Now read to see why..."
Or not at all:
500 Internal Server Error
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@lionking.org, and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
Here's the last few lines of the error_log:
Actually it's a little like a car race that ends in some poor little town. That town feels the wrath of hundreds of thousands of fans, crew, media, etc. but also gets their name on the map. If only every city wanted to be on the map...
This is my digital signature. 10011011001
And this is the highest irony...
That the poster did it as an AC... which means they get no karma.
Ooh. Double-dumbass.
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I have all four of the (IMO) major browsers on my system. I ditched IE, not because it was slow, but because certain pop-ups would cause it to frequently crash, i got Opera, and have been very happy. My computer also came with Netscape 6, and lord is it slow, nuf said. I'd heard good things about Mozilla, and downloaded it to see how it stacked up against Opera. It didn't, it was almost as slow as Netscape 6. If you dont mind the ad on the free version, Opera 6.01 is definitly the best IMO, tabbed, no pop-ups, loads fast, loads pages fast. Internet explorer is a decent browser, i still use it ocasionally for some e-commerce, and some flash games that dont work with Opera. Moz is decent, but blocked pop-ups and tabbed browsing dont make up for its slowness. Netscape, *shakes head* what happened, it used to be decent. Opera is definitly worth the $29.95 or whatever. I'm thinking a lot of people who use and staunchly defend Mozilla all used to use Netscape just to avoid Microsoft in general and switched for the extra features. Seriously, everyone should give Opera a try.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Scroll up retard, there's a cut and paste earlier than yours. Maybe you should look before you leap next time.
I've never seen K5 slashdotted. Now, I know it's far from the most stable site in town, but posting a link to a K5 article in a /. comment definitely won't give it a problem.
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Take this exerpt from the post-LFS (LinuxFromScratch) mozilla build howto:
"Karma: Bad (mostly affected by moderation done to your comments)" Mods@/. != geek?
Two things; first of all, to the /. moderators. These forums turn into discussion very often; whether or not that is their intent, that discussion is both important and on-topic (at least as long as it refers to something within the thread you're dealing with). Moderation should be applied in as laissez-faire a way as humanly possible in order to allow that discussion. Now any rant against Microsoft will of course generate alot of discussion, but that does not mean that discussion that doesn't deal with Linux's advantages, Microsoft's monopoly or the injustice of the capitalist system are completely off-topic. The topic is what /. users make most of the time. I've seen discussions take very interesting tangents when /. users are allowed to branch out into surrounding topics or respond to each other sigs. The problem is that these discussions usually only take place in topics less visited by other users because they are not moderated as much.
My second point is in addition to the points raised by the author of the thread above. Equating any pro-palestinian agenda to terrorism is wrong. Equating anything other than acceptance of Israel's line as anti-semitism is also wrong. For too long this nation (the United States) has been afraid of challenging Israeli responses to Palestinian actions. If what the Palestinian people are involved in is terrorism, then our nation was founded on terrorism. The Palestinians are waging a battle against a militarily superior power that has taken their land from them by force, forced them into refugee camps and taken away whatever liberties they had to begin with. If we really believe in freedom in the US (and many of our government's acts call that into question) we must take a stand for the Palestinians that will guarantee them something more than a "provisional" state. The first step to a real solution to the middle east crisis begins there. When we're no longer seen as the support of the Israeli war machine, it will become more difficult for the despots of that region to paint the United States as an evil tyrant. As the eyes of their people become focused on internal problems rather than external aggresion, they will demand changes and most likely get them. The United States has not realized the most important lesson of the imperial ambitions of Europe: the hand you beat down finds ways to hit you back.
For too long this nation (the United States) has been afraid of challenging Israeli responses to Palestinian actions.
I don't think it's "fear" that has kept the US on the side of the Israelis. I think it's "guilt" and "pity". I've only met a couple of Jews in my lifetime, and they're probably not representative of Israel in any case, since they're American jews. (For the record, I do not know or care if the word "jew" is considered derogative) Of them, the one with the numbered tattoo was the one who thought that Israel and Palestine should quit fighting with one another and make friends. The one without the tattoo expected me to feel sorry for him because of the plight of the jewish people in Nazi Germany. In any case, the US has this massive bleeding heart disease going on, and it comes out the most with people that have been persecuted in history. While Moslems have suffered at least as much persecution at the hand of the Christians as the Jews did in Nazi Germany (ref: the Crusades), they happen to be an old enemy of Christianity. So what happens, then, is the bleeding-heart US can only see the Jews as refugees from Sobibor and sees the evil Muslims throwing bombs around Israel and says "Oh no! We must save them!"
Yes, yes. Let's not forget history. Let's also not be dictated by what happened in history. Why don't we instead just grow up? :) (I'm American)
If we really believe in freedom in the US
I believe in freedom, and I will oppose anyone who tries to take that from me, the US government is not excluded. The basic problem here is that we are conditioned from kindergarten to think that 1) the US stands for freedom (but its history doesn't show) and justice (again: look at the history) for all and that 2) the US Government exists to protect these high ideals.
In my adulthood, I've learned that this is no longer the case. While I'm not a conspiracy theorist, it is fairly obvious when you see a press conference with any of the higher-up elected officials and before answering any question they have to listen to their earpiece squawk the correct answer that this elected official is a PUPPET. I first noticed this with Al Gore, and started watching for it.
Now that the 4th amendment has been repealed, the puppetmasters (whoever they are) are now in a position to start down the path at the end of which lies a dictatorship that is likely to be quite oppressive. We will resemble our Muslim "enemies" more and more the farther down this path we go.
When we're no longer seen as the support of the Israeli war machine, it will become more difficult for the despots of that region to paint the United States as an evil tyrant.
I wouldn't be surprised if they don't actually work that hard to paint this picture of the US. We provide plenty of statistical and anecdotal evidence to support such a claim, and again our history backs this up more than it backs up our conditioning.
Finally, the question is, of course, what do I think we should do about Palestine and Israel? Beats me. Israel is the "little" guy on the playground, but they do seem to be more like the little guy that says "My brother will kick your ass!". What about the people the US helped to evict in order to establish a Jewish state with Jerusalem as the capital? They might just want their homes, and now after spending 30 years or so in battle perhaps they just want to be left alone. There are quite a few nutcases in our own country (ref: the oklahoma bombing) that we can't just assume that any sand-colored person who commits terrorism must be sponsored by a government in the area.
Of course, terrorism has been redefined since those airliners crashed into the twin towers. Terrorism is now anything the president wants it to be in order for him to do what he wants to do.
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Actually, slashdot is full of cowards who won't attach their names to what they say. Regardless, I was a techie and now I'm a law student and all I'm saying is that courtesy is good. You would be pissed off if a major corporation sent many thousands of people on to your property because they had a random suspicion that you might have a hundred gallons of oil under your land or a couple ounces of gold. And in the real world you could sue for trespassing and trespass to chattels among other things. Having the net overrun by arrogant fools who think they're better than everyone else is not the great way of doing things and was not the way of the original net. Read my reply to the other reply to my original comment if you're really interested in my argument. If however you're just interested in hearing yourself speak in your wonderfully superior voice then I have no time for you and you should expect no further debate or replies from me