I did some measurements across several hundred thousand of the most prominent RSS feeds, and I found that only a few actually return a compressed feed when so requested.
On average, compressed feeds are 30.42% of the size of the original, as you can see in graphical form here.
Better support for mod_gzip would certainly help to reduce the impact of RSS polling, but then again so would proper use of conditional get.
The biggest issue is that I am perilously close to ext2's 2 GB limit on file sizes. I will fix this with some reorganization and some data compression.
Calm down everyone, some of this software is keyed on a per-user basis and simply won't run without the proper license key bits. That's what they really want.
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I did some measurements across several hundred thousand of the most prominent RSS feeds, and I found that only a few actually return a compressed feed when so requested.
On average, compressed feeds are 30.42% of the size of the original, as you can see in graphical form here.
Better support for mod_gzip would certainly help to reduce the impact of RSS polling, but then again so would proper use of conditional get.
Any war stories?
I have 5 million rows in my headline table at www.syndic8.com . Retrievals on the table
are very fast. This is on a 1.2 Ghz Athlon running MySQL.
The biggest issue is that I am perilously close to ext2's 2 GB limit on file sizes. I will fix this with some reorganization and some data compression.
Calm down everyone, some of this software is keyed on a per-user basis and simply won't run without the proper license key bits. That's what they really want.
Sorry, but Bill owns his own Challenger 604 for which he paid something like $20,000,000.00
I bet you look really, really tacky :-)
I put the most interesting new news sites in my Newsfeeds weblog.
You can also read syndicated news (on Windows) using Headline Viewer. It has nearly 950 news sites built in.
Jeff;Well, the fact that programmers cannot write clear documentation is hardly O'Reilly's fault.
And I don't see that O'Reilly has a monopoly on technical books.
Some people will NEVER understand that some things are actually worth paying for.
DNA seems to work even better than paper.
Indeed, the IE mechanism is called a "pluggable protocol handler." It allows IE to use externally registered handlers by using a protocol prefix.
Full information can be found on the MSDN site right here.
Its been there since IE4....
Yes, clearly those kids asked to be born rich.
Anyone who's been in the Unix business a while knows that the Death Star refers to AT&T. Jeff;
There is no "expected minimum time." Microsoft expects you to do what you have committed to do. Period. Do it in 40 hours or in 80 hours.
There are no cots (except that people might bring in themselves if they decide to sleep/live in their office).
There are no dorms. Japanese companies use dorms.
Maybe we do work 12-18 hours a day sometimes. Who doesn't?
No one lives on campus except by choice.
Buy food at the MS store? Yeah right.
Yes we have social events. Many are retirement parties. You can actually make money working at Microsoft. Sorry, that's real life.
Marry each other? I've seen it happen. It happens in lots of places where people work closely with each other.
Jeff;