Damn just realised I'm talking about the K and you're probably in the US. Ah well, I assume its the same there...
As a side note, I think u'd be hard pressed to find any official stats on this - I dont think the ISPs are going to want to give out this information unless there's something in it for them.
fair point, I dont have stats to back up my statement - just experience. All the 'consumer' ISPs I've used do this, and I've only found the 'quality' or 'techie' ones not to (Demon when I used to have a subscription, NewNet now).
Its quite easy, aside from the usual reverse-lookups and so forth, you can do this...
- get some web space with PHP
- write a small PHP script with some headers telling it to be cached.
- upload the script and access it in your browser
- change the script, and reupload it
- clear your browser's cache
- visit the page again. you'll get the old version!
(pressing Refresh instead of clearing the cache doesnt tend to work because AFAIK, the browser sends an HTTP header requesting that the files be refreshed).
(you may also need to set the modified date for the PHP script to make sure it doesnt change when you re-upload it)
Mostly it is the video drivers, have a read up on the net (googling and XFree changelogs should do it) on the state of play for the driver for your card.
If you're lucky, the manufacturer may have a Linux driver - but don't count on it:(
Not quite as bad as that - many ISPs run transparent http accelerators - which are exactly the same but most of the time the user doesnt know they're using it....
(it is possible to find out, but most people wont care...)
If it's HitBox that got the stats, they take proxy logs from ISPs and process those. Their primary business is in selling traffic patterns about specific sites (to the sites' owners of course..lol).
This is true - and not just for tech oriented sites.
I've done work on engineering sites and the distribution there has a much higher proportion of other *NIX flavours (mostly AIX and Solaris).
For the very consumer sites, even Netscape doesnt get a lookin these days....
mm fair point - but while it may explain some of it, why would it affect DVDs intermittently (surely they spin constantly while playing - the problem affected some DVDs all the time, some some of the time and some hardly ever), and that shouldnt affect normal TV usage...
- Be very careful of dealing with two representatives in the company. If they dont communicate they have different ideas that are inevitably contradictory and you ens up makeing something and then chainging alternately between two or more setups as each one looks at it...
- Iterative development processes are good - but be prepared to change _everything_. If there's one thing that clients can be relied upon to do its to tell you they want something, and then tell you they want it a totally different way as soon as they see it (no matter how detailed a description you get from them, no matter how good it is...)
- Get a cheque and cash it for each and every milestone!!!
- Make sure you charge the right amount for ech client. This can be a factor of two or more different for different people - you're just as likely to lose a job by underpitching it as overpitching it if the client is unsure that they'll get what they asked for (doesnt matter if its a five minute job - its the percieved complexity that's just as important...)
- Dont start off with very low prices, it'll be a real pain to raise them afterwards... (and regular clients won't accept it at all...)
Yeah, thats why they have system files hidden and an explanation of what the Start Menu does on Windows 200 Advanced Server
The point of MS's software, pure and simple, is that the user doesn't have to even think to be able to use it... which is totally contradictory to a the idea of a productive yet secure system...
Gald you've had so much luck.... here;'s a short summary of my problems....
- most DVDs skip with 30 second pauses every 5 minutes.
- every time I upgrade the drivers DVDs won't play AT ALL (entire computer locks up hard on play)
- TV pausing/playing/recording; great quality but randomly hangs, randomly stalls picture and plays only sound, randomly goes into a 30frameorso loop for ever...
it's fine for gaming mind, just shite for all the things that I actually bought the card for (its a Radeon All-In-Wonder btw)
in the winter, the hot air helps warm the rest of the house, in the summer it helps keep air circulating in the server room to help the fans do their job.
Also, try to make the server room downstairs or in a basement or something (take advantage of the rising heat - both through the ceiling of the room and the flowing air after its left the server room due to the ventilation).
A somewhat modified desk fan stuck in a hole in the wall might also be nice:)
Actually, I've always wondered how easy it would be to make a clone of GTK+ that's just a wrapper around Qt... (and/or vice versa...)
Ok this is probably soo totally not possible, but it would solve many of the issues that the _user_ has (two distinct, different looking and different working interfaces...)
[dont flame me too much I know its only a pipe dream...]
AFAIK the problems with sulphur (and silicon and the others...) is that while they're more flexible with their bonds than the average atom, they can't hold long, complex molecular structures in a stable way - i.e. you couldn't string them together to make the equivilents of amino acids or any complex proteins.
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The changelog says they've made hash tables a lot faster; these are used for all types of arrays in PHP. This should make quite a bit of difference, but I couldn't see anyhthing else that was faster...
damn. exactly why I wanted a web site and/or background info.
I installed the RPM - havent really noticed much difference (and upgraded to KDE2.2.2 a few hours after so no fair comparison anyway)...
In fairness, I wasnt even going to install it until I saw it was bero who posted the link (he packages KDE for RedHat doesnt he?). A sobering thought when I realised I was taking some random RPM off the net and installing it as root...
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Damn just realised I'm talking about the K and you're probably in the US. Ah well, I assume its the same there...
As a side note, I think u'd be hard pressed to find any official stats on this - I dont think the ISPs are going to want to give out this information unless there's something in it for them.
fair point, I dont have stats to back up my statement - just experience. All the 'consumer' ISPs I've used do this, and I've only found the 'quality' or 'techie' ones not to (Demon when I used to have a subscription, NewNet now).
Its quite easy, aside from the usual reverse-lookups and so forth, you can do this...
- get some web space with PHP
- write a small PHP script with some headers telling it to be cached.
- upload the script and access it in your browser
- change the script, and reupload it
- clear your browser's cache
- visit the page again. you'll get the old version!
(pressing Refresh instead of clearing the cache doesnt tend to work because AFAIK, the browser sends an HTTP header requesting that the files be refreshed).
(you may also need to set the modified date for the PHP script to make sure it doesnt change when you re-upload it)
Mostly it is the video drivers, have a read up on the net (googling and XFree changelogs should do it) on the state of play for the driver for your card.
:(
If you're lucky, the manufacturer may have a Linux driver - but don't count on it
Not quite as bad as that - many ISPs run transparent http accelerators - which are exactly the same but most of the time the user doesnt know they're using it....
(it is possible to find out, but most people wont care...)
If it's HitBox that got the stats, they take proxy logs from ISPs and process those. Their primary business is in selling traffic patterns about specific sites (to the sites' owners of course..lol).
If its got anything to do with Hitbox, it's not sites that are polled but ISPs...
:(
[HitBox take proxy logs from ISPs and process those - generating the stats and providing clickthrough information to sites].
If there's any skew, its going to be the ISPs that are chosen. (they don't say which ones...)
I was shocked when I first found out this sort of thing happened (especially with static IPs), but apparently it's quite common
This is true - and not just for tech oriented sites.
I've done work on engineering sites and the distribution there has a much higher proportion of other *NIX flavours (mostly AIX and Solaris).
For the very consumer sites, even Netscape doesnt get a lookin these days....
mm fair point - but while it may explain some of it, why would it affect DVDs intermittently (surely they spin constantly while playing - the problem affected some DVDs all the time, some some of the time and some hardly ever), and that shouldnt affect normal TV usage...
some of this is a reiteration I know but...
- Be very careful of dealing with two representatives in the company. If they dont communicate they have different ideas that are inevitably contradictory and you ens up makeing something and then chainging alternately between two or more setups as each one looks at it...
- Iterative development processes are good - but be prepared to change _everything_. If there's one thing that clients can be relied upon to do its to tell you they want something, and then tell you they want it a totally different way as soon as they see it (no matter how detailed a description you get from them, no matter how good it is...)
- Get a cheque and cash it for each and every milestone!!!
- Make sure you charge the right amount for ech client. This can be a factor of two or more different for different people - you're just as likely to lose a job by underpitching it as overpitching it if the client is unsure that they'll get what they asked for (doesnt matter if its a five minute job - its the percieved complexity that's just as important...)
- Dont start off with very low prices, it'll be a real pain to raise them afterwards... (and regular clients won't accept it at all...)
This is exactly what gets me about MS...
trusting the sysadmin's dilligence
Yeah, thats why they have system files hidden and an explanation of what the Start Menu does on Windows 200 Advanced Server
The point of MS's software, pure and simple, is that the user doesn't have to even think to be able to use it... which is totally contradictory to a the idea of a productive yet secure system...
thoughts of desperation follow...
yeah? the PSU in that box (PII 400, 1 hard drive, 1 DVD drive, 1 network card) is the same rating as that in my workstation....
dual 1Ghz PIII, 3 hard drives (+1 drive cooler), CDRW, TV card, 2 x NICs).
I know PSUs differ in quality and output, but even so.....
(and why does DVD/TV use more than 3D???)
Gald you've had so much luck.... here;'s a short summary of my problems....
- most DVDs skip with 30 second pauses every 5 minutes.
- every time I upgrade the drivers DVDs won't play AT ALL (entire computer locks up hard on play)
- TV pausing/playing/recording; great quality but randomly hangs, randomly stalls picture and plays only sound, randomly goes into a 30frameorso loop for ever...
it's fine for gaming mind, just shite for all the things that I actually bought the card for (its a Radeon All-In-Wonder btw)
...has benefits both ends of the scale..
:)
in the winter, the hot air helps warm the rest of the house, in the summer it helps keep air circulating in the server room to help the fans do their job.
Also, try to make the server room downstairs or in a basement or something (take advantage of the rising heat - both through the ceiling of the room and the flowing air after its left the server room due to the ventilation).
A somewhat modified desk fan stuck in a hole in the wall might also be nice
Actually, I've always wondered how easy it would be to make a clone of GTK+ that's just a wrapper around Qt... (and/or vice versa...)
Ok this is probably soo totally not possible, but it would solve many of the issues that the _user_ has (two distinct, different looking and different working interfaces...)
[dont flame me too much I know its only a pipe dream...]
I guess even robots could change their mind and build another....
oops, maybe that phrase is only used in england,
'piece of piss' = 'very easy'
isn't language a wonderful thing...
I cant agree with all of this - a newbie may have to be handy with a command line, but aside from that its easy...
the ports tree - a complete piece of piss to automatically download/compile/install anything in it (and there's a lot...)
compiling the kernel - complete piece of piss... 2 lines or somethings...
pratical stuff like setting up NAT, firewalling, stuff like that, takes seconds...
if its only for internal use, why not set up and internal DNS server and add the hostnames as /etc/hosts (or whatever your equiv for your systems)
That way you get the advantage and the bad guys dont...
AFAIK the problems with sulphur (and silicon and the others...) is that while they're more flexible with their bonds than the average atom, they can't hold long, complex molecular structures in a stable way - i.e. you couldn't string them together to make the equivilents of amino acids or any complex proteins.
The changelog says they've made hash tables a lot faster; these are used for all types of arrays in PHP. This should make quite a bit of difference, but I couldn't see anyhthing else that was faster...
(mostly bugfixes AFAICS)
Yeah, but when you see one of those ads for drill bit sets with like a billion free extras and the number is just there falshing at you to call it...
There are types of adverts which do go for the direct and immediate sale and they apply just as equally online and off...
er, I'd love to know where to get Unix versions of those Adobe apps.... (Photoshop and the SVG viewer to name just two...)
hmm, strange that there are 50 comments already and noone has mentioned the Godfrey vs Demon case from a year or two back...
random link here
[for those who missed it, he sued Demon for not blocking a message about him on a Usenet newsgroup.....]
damn. exactly why I wanted a web site and/or background info.
I installed the RPM - havent really noticed much difference (and upgraded to KDE2.2.2 a few hours after so no fair comparison anyway)...
In fairness, I wasnt even going to install it until I saw it was bero who posted the link (he packages KDE for RedHat doesnt he?). A sobering thought when I realised I was taking some random RPM off the net and installing it as root...