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  1. Re:Single pixel gif? on Testing didtheyreadit.com's Mail-Tracking Claims · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I just tested, they send an image/jpeg with a header not specifying the length at 1 byte/second. But it is only 302 bytes long, so they can't track for more than 5 minutes. It is a real JPEG, 1x1 pixels, created with an Adobe product.

  2. Re:Single pixel gif? on Testing didtheyreadit.com's Mail-Tracking Claims · · Score: 4, Informative

    The time is probably calculated by not actually sending the image file, or sending it very slowly. So they just keep the HTTP session open, then note when the client closes. That would limit the tracking time to when the connection times out. Like the author said, he left the Yahoo mail open for 10 minutes and it only reported 2.

    An additional note, Yahoo does have an option to disable remote images, which would also break this.

    Seems this company is too late to the party. Almost all current e-mail clients now don't or have an option to not to load remote images.

  3. Re:Bad film on THX-1138 Finally Coming to DVD · · Score: 1

    Yes, the vocal effects, like speech over radios, must have been done with the same technique used for the stormtroopers in the original trilogy.

    Also a lot of music takes samples from this movie. Nine Inch Nails' Mr. Self Destruct starts with the sound of the guy being beaten on a TV show, was one I noticed right away.

  4. Re:Perl? on Alternatives to Autoconf? · · Score: 1
    Nope, like I said, Perl has a script that works like autoconf, but isn't.

    From Perl's configure.gnu:
    #! /bin/sh
    #
    # $Id: configure,v 3.0.1.1 1995/07/25 14:16:21 ram Exp $
    #
    # GNU configure-like front end to metaconfig's Configure.
    #
  5. Perl? on Alternatives to Autoconf? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perl doesn't use autoconf. It does have script that sort of mimics autoconf, but isn't. Also most Perl extensions use `perl Makefile.pl` to configure themselves.

  6. Re:We have a winner! on How To Get Googled, By Hook Or By Crook · · Score: 5, Informative

    A better link would be nigritude ultramarine. Your's would just link the keyword "here" with the article.

  7. Re:PHP works fine with Apache 2.0 on Apache HTTP Server 1.3.31 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can have almost the same funtionality as mod_php if you use a CGI php with Linux's misc_binfmt to register *.php files with /usr/bin/php. You just have to chmod +x each php script and set the ExecCGI option on directories you want to run PHP from. Then you can use suexec to separate users.

    Of course it does limit you to features that are availible to the CGI version of PHP. But that is just about everything, except some of the PATH_* varibles.

    Other than that, I wouldn't hold your breath over the PerChild. I held mine for about 6 months, and I got nothing but blue in the face. That is when I resorted to the system above.

  8. Re:Interesting Uses Possible on DSI Delivers up to 3GB/s with Solid State Disk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But the entire DB is in RAM. But it isn't local to the processor, it is on the other side of a FC bus.

    When this makes sense, is when you do want your entire DB in RAM, but don't want to put the required amount of RAM in each node of a cluster. So you just attach each node to this SAN.

  9. Re:Don't make me play with those XBox controllers. on Doom 3 Xbox Previewed, PC Version No-Show At E3 · · Score: 1

    Doom had up/down auto-aim, because there was no up or down. Remember Doom was described as 2.5D. While the engine made things look like they were higher or lower, there was no real under/over. So as long as there wasn't a wall in the way, a shot toward a creature would hit it.

  10. Re:CSS, oh how I love thee... on Core CSS (2nd ed.) · · Score: 1

    And once again I'm in agreement with you. I even try to stay away from classes and ids, and try to find a CSS selector to identify the tags of which I want to modify the presentation. I'll just chunk the major content up into seperate divisions, give each an ID, and try to build the rest from there.

  11. Re:CSS, oh how I love thee... on Core CSS (2nd ed.) · · Score: 1

    You are right, I just checked both with and without is valid. I don't know why I thought that the trailing was invalid. It must have been some browser that had a fit when I did place one at the end of the inlined CSS.

    You are also correct, you always need them between individual CSS statements, but I wasn't saying that, I was only speaking of the superfluous one at the end.

  12. Re:Read the Recommendation on Core CSS (2nd ed.) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I learned XHTML from the DTDs. I thought I knew HTML, but was having trouble consistantly writing valid XHTML. Like does a "form" go inside a "p", or the other way around? After printing out the DTDs and keeping them in front of me for the next couple of sites I designed I learned a lot.

    And of course I learned CSS from the rec. also. I was reading over the SVG specs a couple weeks ago. But after coding up a few samples and seeing the state of SVG support (period, I don't care about which browser you use), I have put it on the back burner for now.

  13. Re:CSS Zen Garden on Core CSS (2nd ed.) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I do with people would stop pointing to this site as a paramount of CSS design. While their work may be "rich, powerful and compliant", it is not, as you have noticed, "flexable".

    What is so hard about using "em" as the base measurement for the layout? Also, the main content text size should always be 1em, i.e. not specified, allowing the browser's default size to be used.

    I run at 2048x1536 on a 19" monitor. GNOME with a SVG based theme just looks really crisp. But then I go to some website that thinks that 10px is a good font size. And has their entire layout based around a fixed 600px center column. So if I do Ctrl-+ to bump up the font size to something I can see, I end up with like 5 words on each line.

    Okay, I'm done...

  14. Re:CSS, oh how I love thee... on Core CSS (2nd ed.) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well "div" is a block level elment, you'd want a "span" in this case. Also the trailing ';' is not needed and actually invalid for the style attribute to a tag.

  15. Re:Dual LCDs? on Samsung's 17" LCD Gaming Monitor Rated · · Score: 1

    Anything from ATI's FireGL Z or X series will have dual DVI.

  16. Re:Smart on Gmail Addresses For Sale · · Score: 1

    Provided that you wanted the name "hacker".

    You aren't buying into the beta, you are buying the account of someone who was in the beta.

  17. Re:/me ponders... on Spammer Sues SpamCop · · Score: 1

    That's what inertial firing pins are for.

  18. Re:Another misleading title on Linspire Accused Of Misusing Creative Commons Art · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, since there was not CC license when the Flash demo was made, and there was no mention of copyright, then the default copyright laws apply. That is no derived works are permitted, period.

    The CC license now allows non-commercial derived works.

  19. Re:The motorcycle chick... on Chernobyl Becomes Tourist Hot Spot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seriously though, no she won't be giving tours. As she wrote on her site; she rides alone to avoid breathing in the dust kicked up by another vehicle. Also the reason she goes on bike, she can stick to the center of the road. The radiation increases quite a bit just moving toward the shoulder.

  20. Re:Look at sources... on Where Can I find Sources for Learning LaTex? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To expand upon this comment and one other posted before it. Use Lyx and view the source of the documents it creates. I haven't used it for a few years so I'm sure I've gotten rather rusty now, but that is how I learned to write LaTeX by hand.

  21. Re:Too much space is driving me nuts! on iPod Mini Hits The 'Sweet Spot'? · · Score: 1

    I'm looking at the info displayed by Rhythmbox, 743 songs, 2 days, 6 hours and 18 minutes, 4.1 GB. I'd see no where near 1000 songs on e 2 GB device. Of course the iPods don't play Ogg/Vorbis files either. Then there is the fact that I never leave the house/office so all of this is moot, I don't need a portable player.

  22. Re:(OT) Re:Remember, Kids! on 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba · · Score: 1

    I have 6 Seagate 36GB 15K Cheetahs. Two mirrored as RAID1 for my system partitions and the other 4 as RAID5 for my home directories. They are on a two channel U320 SCSI card. One system drive and 2 home drives per channel.

    Writes to the system array go at about 50 MB/sec reads approach 100 MB/sec. The home partition can break 100 MB/sec with both reads and writes. This is just the Linux software RAID with the onboard LSI 53C1030 controllers.

    I use SCA-2 (80-pin) drives, so my choices are limited. I'm also big Seagate fan so I didn't look very far. I paid almost $400 a drive for these. I think they can be had for around $300 now. I have two more empty SCA ports on the dual backplanes (Lian-Li 626-SCA case) so I'll probably pick up two more of these drives soon and add them to my home array.

    I wasn't worried about the noise, but actually found them to be quieter than the 10k drives I was replacing. They get HOT though. Make sure you have plenty of air flow over the drives.

  23. Re:Remember, Kids! on 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Capacity is half of the problem with laptop drives. But data through-put is just as big. Sure this has an ATA-6 interface, but what is the actual sustained data transfer rate? With a rotational speed of only 4,200 RPM, I'm betting it is pretty poor. The latency of 12ms seeks won't help much either.

    I'm running 15,000 RPM drives in my desktop machine with average seek times right around 3ms. No wonder laptops seem so many times slower when loading a program from disk.

  24. Re:First of all... on The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you ever head of Reed-Solomon? There is redundancy built into CDs.

  25. Re:Nonsense! on The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens when the amount time it takes to transfer all the data from one medium to another is longer than the life time of the media on which it currently resides?