They need to send the "is this a bad web page" request to their OWN server that has daily or hourly cached results instead of checking over and over. Sure there would be a delay, but it would be mainly using THEIR and their CUSTOMERS bandwidth and not chewing up my sites bandwidth.
I've only had 1 crash and that happend yesterday, after it crashed, a nice popup window asked if I wanted to tell Microsoft about it. I declined.
It got me thinking though, why don't they have their own "tell firefox" about the crash box what sends them the stack trace and page etc so they can debug these problems quicker.
Just did the quiz and some of the answers are vague. For example #2, in question #2
II. He can distribute the modified source code alongside the binaries.
I took this to mean ALL of the source with modifications applied, but I got the answer wrong so I'm thinking that they really mean ONLY the modified files. It should be a a little clearer.
Back in the late 90s I worked at DSI ( precursor to EA Canada ) and there was a guy there ( Bruce Dawson ) who had written a very cool Mandelbrot renderer. I just googled him and found it, checkout the thumbnails at the URL:
http://www.cygnus-software.com/gallery/stampindex.htm
The actual protection was a bad sector on the floppy and the program would read it and make sure the error matched what it was expecting. The side-effect was that the rom software on the disk drive did a reset of the head position a couple of times to try and read the sector and that was the grinding noise that you would hear.
Because it's a very OLD, slow iMac, 266mhz running an old O/S. The HD is only 2gb, so have all my source on a 4GB USB Hard drive.
Thanks for the tip, I will look into a MAC Mini.
Cheers,
I'm not a Mac guy, but have written an open-source app that runs on Win/Linux/Mac, but I have a really old iMAC for testing. If I could get one of these for $500 and get it converted to a MAC that would really help me in making sure the MAC version was really stable. Thoughts?
Since every game / program uses the hardware differently the ONLY way to compare hardware is to run the game/program or a subset of the game on the actual hardware. What would be really nice would be to have a slimmed down version of the game you want ( supplied by the game company, and preferable as small as possible so it can easily be put on a small USB drive ) that you can run on the machine in question and have it display the "score". That way, when my kid is looking for a new machine to run WoW on, I can lookup the WowTest "score" for the particular machines he is thinking of, or download the "WowTest" onto a USB drive and take it to the store and run it on some machines.
Penn & Teller's Bullshit! was very eye opening in regards to their episode on Recycling. Up until that point I thought that recycling was actually doing some good but after watching the show it looks like a lot of it is worse for the environment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit!
A friend of mine invented a solution, it's called "Vertical Inlaid Fibre"
Here is a blurb from his website:
TeraSpan Networks Joins Initiative to Bring Broadband to Rural America
Vancouver, BC - June 15, 2007. TeraSpan Networks' Vertical Inlaid FiberTM (VIFTM) System has been added to a the accepted materials list of the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Telecommunications Program (RDTP) supporting expanded broadband access to rural American communities that currently receive limited service.
"We are very pleased that the RDTP has granted us technical acceptance," said Lisa Payne, TeraSpan's President. "Small towns should have access to the same resources as urban and suburban areas, and our technology can help these communities by significantly increasing the ease of broadband deployments while simultaneously decreasing the costs."
The technical acceptance of TeraSpan's VIFTM System will qualify the company to participate in RDTP financed projects, including many Fiber to the Home projects. TeraSpan's innovative technology is ideal for such projects as it is faster and more economical to deploy than traditional methods, and its flexible design allows for the future expansion of the network. TeraSpan's VIFTM System consists of a rugged 2-piece conduit that "zippers" closed over the fiber optic cables and is then placed in a slim cut in the ground.
This is exactly the problem we had. We replaced about 1/2 of the lights in our house with CFLs about 2 years ago, then about 6 months later they start dying. I emailed the manufacturer and they explained that the long life guarantee is only valid if the lights are left ON for a condsiderable length of time and not on / off like bathroom lights, garage lights etc. Does anyone know if they have been changed to handle quick on / off times better?
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They need to send the "is this a bad web page" request to their OWN server that has daily or hourly cached results instead of checking over and over. Sure there would be a delay, but it would be mainly using THEIR and their CUSTOMERS bandwidth and not chewing up my sites bandwidth.
I've only had 1 crash and that happend yesterday, after it crashed, a nice popup window asked if I wanted to tell Microsoft about it. I declined.
It got me thinking though, why don't they have their own "tell firefox" about the crash box what sends them the stack trace and page etc so they can debug these problems quicker.
Since I am the only developer on my OS project and I have a limited amount of time, what should I focus on?
Documentation or
Lots of small example programs?
Just did the quiz and some of the answers are vague. For example #2, in question #2
II. He can distribute the modified source code alongside the binaries.
I took this to mean ALL of the source with modifications applied, but I got the answer wrong so I'm thinking that they really mean ONLY the modified files. It should be a a little clearer.
Back in the late 90s I worked at DSI ( precursor to EA Canada ) and there was a guy there ( Bruce Dawson ) who had written a very cool Mandelbrot renderer. I just googled him and found it, checkout the thumbnails at the URL: http://www.cygnus-software.com/gallery/stampindex.htm
The actual protection was a bad sector on the floppy and the program would read it and make sure the error matched what it was expecting. The side-effect was that the rom software on the disk drive did a reset of the head position a couple of times to try and read the sector and that was the grinding noise that you would hear.
Because it's a very OLD, slow iMac, 266mhz running an old O/S. The HD is only 2gb, so have all my source on a 4GB USB Hard drive. Thanks for the tip, I will look into a MAC Mini. Cheers,
I'm not a Mac guy, but have written an open-source app that runs on Win/Linux/Mac, but I have a really old iMAC for testing. If I could get one of these for $500 and get it converted to a MAC that would really help me in making sure the MAC version was really stable. Thoughts?
Slashdotted already, that was quick!
Q: If you are running 3 apps at the same time will they each be assigned to their own core?
Since every game / program uses the hardware differently the ONLY way to compare hardware is to run the game/program or a subset of the game on the actual hardware. What would be really nice would be to have a slimmed down version of the game you want ( supplied by the game company, and preferable as small as possible so it can easily be put on a small USB drive ) that you can run on the machine in question and have it display the "score". That way, when my kid is looking for a new machine to run WoW on, I can lookup the WowTest "score" for the particular machines he is thinking of, or download the "WowTest" onto a USB drive and take it to the store and run it on some machines.
Penn & Teller's Bullshit! was very eye opening in regards to their episode on Recycling. Up until that point I thought that recycling was actually doing some good but after watching the show it looks like a lot of it is worse for the environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit!
A friend of mine invented a solution, it's called "Vertical Inlaid Fibre"
Here is a blurb from his website:
TeraSpan Networks Joins Initiative to Bring Broadband to Rural America
Vancouver, BC - June 15, 2007. TeraSpan Networks' Vertical Inlaid FiberTM (VIFTM) System has been added to a the accepted materials list of the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Telecommunications Program (RDTP) supporting expanded broadband access to rural American communities that currently receive limited service.
"We are very pleased that the RDTP has granted us technical acceptance," said Lisa Payne, TeraSpan's President. "Small towns should have access to the same resources as urban and suburban areas, and our technology can help these communities by significantly increasing the ease of broadband deployments while simultaneously decreasing the costs."
The technical acceptance of TeraSpan's VIFTM System will qualify the company to participate in RDTP financed projects, including many Fiber to the Home projects. TeraSpan's innovative technology is ideal for such projects as it is faster and more economical to deploy than traditional methods, and its flexible design allows for the future expansion of the network. TeraSpan's VIFTM System consists of a rugged 2-piece conduit that "zippers" closed over the fiber optic cables and is then placed in a slim cut in the ground.
http://www.teraspan.com/
This is exactly the problem we had. We replaced about 1/2 of the lights in our house with CFLs about 2 years ago, then about 6 months later they start dying. I emailed the manufacturer and they explained that the long life guarantee is only valid if the lights are left ON for a condsiderable length of time and not on / off like bathroom lights, garage lights etc. Does anyone know if they have been changed to handle quick on / off times better?