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gDesklets - Gnome2's Karamba
Deusy writes "Footnotes is running an update article on gDesklets, Gnome's answer to KDE's Karamba. I've heard a lot of noise with regards to Karamba (and Super Karamba) and a lot of moans from Gnome users about the lack of a Gnome equivalent. Hopefully this should fill that void and more, as one of the developers comments that gDesklets is the product of "months of planning" and describes Karamba as an "ugly hack"."
Never mind about Gnome2 for a second, I have a real question.
When are you slashdot people going to fix the single white pixel appearing at the top of the page just below the banner ad? You have in your code something buggy, because you are generating an IFRAME tag of size 1x1 that has nothing in it.
Whats worse, you have totally failed to fix this, despite it running on your PRODUCTION server for weeks now. So much for open source software being more reliable. Sheesh.
Why isn't Slashdot covering this story?
"The Filthy Critic was killed in a
bicycle collision late Thursday night."
Here's a link to Filthy Critic, check for yourself.
Warning: Too many connections in
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in
Unable to select database
1) Persistant connections can screw things up just as much as they can help. Put a limit on them.
2) Increase the number of max connections in MySQL.
3) Make sure the tables for your site are all in INNODB format. Slow DB connections are often caused by keeping MyISAM.
4) use something like PHP Smarty to manage templates. It can dramatically speed up your page load times.
5) Increase the number of apache connections. Really, if you have a gig of mem, 500 concurrent connections are quite easy to deal with.
Your server doesn't HAVE to frickin choke on the first few hundred visitors from slashdot
It never ceases to amaze me the number of people who put up great looking PHP sites but forget to do the simple tuning to make it scale.
Gah!
Of course, I've left out things that could be done, and probably made mistakes here, but who cares. The point is; look in those config files. They are not there for nothing.
Don't just stick your head up your ass (by modding this down.)
10) Registry editor clone (gconf-editor).
9) "Instant Apply" techology that can accidently cause damage (Ooops, I selected hello.jpg [goatse.cx] as my wallpaper instead of fish.jpg)
8) Weather applet that shows fahrenheit by default (Hello, the wolrd is != USA)
7) The half assed way of changing screen resolutions. The Xrandr hack is useless if you want to change colour depth.
6) No easy way to edit menus. With windows I can right click the menu and rename, edit, and drag and drop entries. You are at the mercy of your distro's complex heiracrhy without editing text files.
5) Nautilus, half asssed file management with no "real" features. Guess whos using konqueror.
4) Its word processor (Abi word office) has no table support
3) The clock, in its asswipe MM/DD format (again W!=USA)
2) The file dialog (no further comment)
And last but not least
*drumroll*
1) HAVOC PENNINGTON
The person who took gnome from being a KDE Kass Kicker in 1.4 to a VTECH Whizzkid computer in 2.3. Give us back our features and shove your "HIG" up your millimetre dick!
I know this is way off topic, but I'd say after Stardock dumped the OS/2 world and tried to make a buisness in the Windows world is when it all started going down hill. Granted, OS/2 was dieing fast and it was out of their control. I always felt that if *only if* Stardock had the cash to buy OS/2 from IBM and continued developement on their own that OS/2, would still be a contender for the PC desktop. Just my thoughts.