I took a year off to work/travel six years ago, and here I am, working like a dog, and still haven't returned to school. Go, and at least finish a bachelor's degree, or a diploma in something.
I've done the porn gig for a while, and I can tell you a "secret" that won't work all that well for a web application. Anything on a porn site that can be served up statically, usually is. If it's a "page of the week" it usually is generated once a week, so that you don't need to pull from the database on every single hit. At least, that's they way it works/worked for us.
If you do need to hit the database with almost every page load, there's a few simple tricks. These are what I use with PHP, which is the only language we use on our sites. If there's common information that will be called upon a lot, store it in a session variable, as it saves database transactions (not much, but every bit counts). Take a look at how you're database transactions are setup. If you have a table with 30 columns, and you only need 8, then select those 8 instead of *. If there's a lot of traffic on a particular page, try persistent connections. Look at an object oriented way of writing all of your db transactions, makes big applications a little smaller and easier to work with, and if you find a way to fix something you're doing it, just fix the class instead of every script in the application. There's plenty of other little "tricks" and what i've said doesn't really qualify as tricks, but there's plenty you can do before you start talking multiple load balanced servers.
I know that, personally, I find the ability to write things around firefox impressive. The current project that i'm working on requires a web based Rich Text editor, but with some twists to fit the data that will be modified. I initally looked into doing it to work for IE, but decided that I would develop it as a firefox extension, and when it's working properly, I'll share the source. I'd much rather a simple firefox extension than trying to do it based all in javascript to work in both firefox and IE.
Most of that isn't important, but what it leads me to is this:
With the extension only being for Firefox, it forces the end users of the product (there will probably only be a few hundred) will need to use firefox. I know they'll have to, because they're locked into using this tool when it's finished, so they'll need to use Firefox to get what they want accomplished. It might not be the best method to get folks to switch, but it works.
I sat down a while ago and laid out my own custom start page, it consists of a calendar/planner, my favorite headlines, some simple search forms, and the current stats on my router/render box. That way, I can get anything I might need to know from several different pieces of software all from firefox in about 2 or 3 seconds.
I really don't see a problem with checking the user agent. Especially when the bulk of changes made from one style sheet to the other is something as small as say "padding". And to say it's not reliable, I would really have to disagree. But, that's only my $2 * 10^(-2)
If you're using PHP, the issue can be easily solved. I started doing this lately with some of my own work. I design a site, write all the CSS for Mozilla/Netscape, and make sure it all works. Then I make clone of the stylesheet, and customize it to Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5. After I have both, sometimes there's another one for Opera and Safari, if you're feelin craaaazy, I write a simple script to parse what browser they're using from the HTTP_USER_AGENT and import the correct stylesheet. It eliminates javascript, and document just the slightest bit smaller (What's 1k difference you might ask? What if your're server a million pages a month?) I haven't run into any problems with it, the pages looks the same for everyone, and it takes an extra 10 minutes work on my part.
Oh, and as far as what to code for? Personally, I code XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and CSS 1, because 2 isn't so popular with the older crowd of browsers.
Patches or no patches, the fact that the game went to store shelves with big errors like sinking through bridges and clipping through anything, is disgusting. What would you say if, whenever it actually gets released, you bought Doom 3 and until a patch was released, you fell through floors and shit? I'm guessing you'd rag till the end of time.
I had the same problem with a liteon dvd drive. It worked for months, and then one day, while ripping a cd (Diana Krall : Live in paris, if you want the exact cd) and halfway through the rip it failed. Windows still saw the cdrom, the BIOS picked it up, I could see it in linux, and use it in linux, and it was still bootable. However, whenever I tried to browse a cd in windows, it would say "Please insert a disk in drive D:" or whatever the error was. The way I fixed it was to pull the driver out of device manager, shut down the machine, take out the DVD drive, and throw in my girlfriends drive (some old burner). Windows started up, burner showed up, and worked fine. Did the same removal process witht he burner, re-installed the DVD drive, and everything worked again. I've had the same problem twice since then, and both times it was fixed the same way. I don't know if that helps or not, but it's what worked for me.
Most of what's in Longhorn (from what I know of right now) is.NET code. I'm almost 100% sure that explorer was modified to be.NET. This doens't mean that you can't write windows apps in C++ anymore, because there are.NET compilers for C++, as well as VB, and many other languages. And C# isn't a proprietary language, if you do some reading you'll find that out. Do your homework, my friend, before you start bitching.
My suggestion would be Cape Breton, which is on the east coast of Canada. You wouldn't want to come here unless it were the summer, because the museums aren't open until the summer. But you could visit the Alexander Grahm Bell museum (you know, they guy with the phone) and the Marconi Museum. In Glace Bay (small small harbour town, nicest people on the face of the earth) you can visit the site of the first wireless broadcasts across the atlantic, and you can also see where the first broadcast of live music ever took place from. And there's all kinds of fishing and mining museums, and the fishing culture and all. There's also the Cabbot trail, which is possibly the most scenic route around the island that you could imagine. That's just my $2.00 x 10^-2
I think I agree that, while this is a *neat* way of doing things, it's exactly what linux *doesn't* need. I constantly read people bickering and ranting about bringing linux to the desktop, and as effecient a means this may be, the only people it would be practical for would be *nix vetrans, who already have experience, and old hardware they don't want to try and run X on. As far as servers go, I know I use 100% command line, I just don't need a window manager to edit conf files. New users to linux will want to see high res, (at least) 16 bit colour, if they're even going to try linux on their pc. This may not hold true for johnny tinkerface, who likes linux for something to play with, but John Mc-cause-its-free will want something that compares to Windows/MacOS. Who knows, maybe i'm just an idiot, but that's my 2 cents.
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At MSN, I recieved the best christmas present ever. I was fired, then given a falsified R.O.E. that stops me from being able to collect any form of Employment Insurance. Ho Ho Ho Bill, merry fuckin christmas.
Stuff like that can't usually be done on DSL. Most cable connections have a lot of the configuration set in the modem, and the line provisioned specifically to the modem. DSL is provisioned (usually) in the phone company's central office at a DSLAM, for different upstream/downstream rates. A lot of Qwest subscribers might notice that they can set a max downstream of 7mbit on a Cisco 67x modem/router, but you'll never hit more than what the DSLAM says you're supposed to get...
dear lord, the brillant mind that thought up that commercial should be removed from the skull, bathed in disinfectant, and then trampeled by a heard of fat women headed towards weight watchers. Can you hear me now?
i'm an un-named Canadian soldier. Apparently there's an outsourcer in the states too, maybe in florida (don't quote me on that). I've been transfered calls from there today, where agents get a customer using 3rd party hubs, with the aformentioned dsl router (on the 252 netmask). That would lead me to believe that the support at that site would be a little lacking, sorry if you're from there, just sayin what we've been getting here.
oh, I forgot to mention one thing. The setup for the hardware (you know you don' need it, but if you want to run it) won't work on win2k, or nt, and if i'm not mistaken, 95, so it's not really MS Friendly either. Whodathunkit?
Hey Guys, I, sadly, work on the support team for this hardware. It's actually a pretty good home router. Admitidly, the network cards and adapters aren't the most non-MS-friendly hardware, but the routers, both of them, are pretty good. The WiFi router is standard 802.11b, uses standard WEP, allows MAC filtering, and will work (or so we're told) with all other standad gear, regardless of who makes it.
MS actually wants to pair some of this hardware up with it's MSN DSL subscribers. If you have MSN DSL, or know anyone that does, this isn't the best of ideas to look at right now, seeing as you get a modem stuck on a netmask of 255.255.255.252 (doesn't matter if you buy the router;) and some of the worst NAT you'll ever see. They *are*, however, doing a beta trial right now, with a new modem, which, while still on the same netmask, allows you to drop a DMZ to the one available inside ip. So if you had the new modem (probably won't be rolled out by MSN until feburary) and this/any other networking package, you'd be able to get by pretty well. That is, of course, you can deal with their nazi-esque line provisioning, with a max downstream of 640kbps. Dah well, can't win'em all. But I'll say one more time that it's actually nice hardware.
The car can give you shopping information? Does this mean communicates with a source to get current information? If it does, ten points goes to the first person to modify it to grab slashdot headlines.
Unfortunatly they don't always grow out of it that quick. There's nothing more pathetic than a 27 year old blasting [Death|Black|Mad_At_My_Parents] Metal and thinking it rocks...
I beg to differ. What about nonsensical pop music, or [why_dont_you_love_me] country music, or even [fuck_yall_suck_my_dick] rap? I'd suggest not "baggin" on one specific type of music, due to the fact that it's probably the most subjective area of taste possible.
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I took a year off to work/travel six years ago, and here I am, working like a dog, and still haven't returned to school. Go, and at least finish a bachelor's degree, or a diploma in something.
Ovaltine? Why do they call it ovaltine? Shouldn't they call it roundtine? I await the wrath of the mod's.
I've done the porn gig for a while, and I can tell you a "secret" that won't work all that well for a web application. Anything on a porn site that can be served up statically, usually is. If it's a "page of the week" it usually is generated once a week, so that you don't need to pull from the database on every single hit. At least, that's they way it works/worked for us.
If you do need to hit the database with almost every page load, there's a few simple tricks. These are what I use with PHP, which is the only language we use on our sites. If there's common information that will be called upon a lot, store it in a session variable, as it saves database transactions (not much, but every bit counts). Take a look at how you're database transactions are setup. If you have a table with 30 columns, and you only need 8, then select those 8 instead of *. If there's a lot of traffic on a particular page, try persistent connections. Look at an object oriented way of writing all of your db transactions, makes big applications a little smaller and easier to work with, and if you find a way to fix something you're doing it, just fix the class instead of every script in the application. There's plenty of other little "tricks" and what i've said doesn't really qualify as tricks, but there's plenty you can do before you start talking multiple load balanced servers.
I know that, personally, I find the ability to write things around firefox impressive. The current project that i'm working on requires a web based Rich Text editor, but with some twists to fit the data that will be modified. I initally looked into doing it to work for IE, but decided that I would develop it as a firefox extension, and when it's working properly, I'll share the source. I'd much rather a simple firefox extension than trying to do it based all in javascript to work in both firefox and IE. Most of that isn't important, but what it leads me to is this: With the extension only being for Firefox, it forces the end users of the product (there will probably only be a few hundred) will need to use firefox. I know they'll have to, because they're locked into using this tool when it's finished, so they'll need to use Firefox to get what they want accomplished. It might not be the best method to get folks to switch, but it works.
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I sat down a while ago and laid out my own custom start page, it consists of a calendar/planner, my favorite headlines, some simple search forms, and the current stats on my router/render box. That way, I can get anything I might need to know from several different pieces of software all from firefox in about 2 or 3 seconds.
I really don't see a problem with checking the user agent. Especially when the bulk of changes made from one style sheet to the other is something as small as say "padding". And to say it's not reliable, I would really have to disagree. But, that's only my $2 * 10^(-2)
If you're using PHP, the issue can be easily solved. I started doing this lately with some of my own work. I design a site, write all the CSS for Mozilla/Netscape, and make sure it all works. Then I make clone of the stylesheet, and customize it to Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5. After I have both, sometimes there's another one for Opera and Safari, if you're feelin craaaazy, I write a simple script to parse what browser they're using from the HTTP_USER_AGENT and import the correct stylesheet. It eliminates javascript, and document just the slightest bit smaller (What's 1k difference you might ask? What if your're server a million pages a month?) I haven't run into any problems with it, the pages looks the same for everyone, and it takes an extra 10 minutes work on my part. Oh, and as far as what to code for? Personally, I code XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and CSS 1, because 2 isn't so popular with the older crowd of browsers.
Patches or no patches, the fact that the game went to store shelves with big errors like sinking through bridges and clipping through anything, is disgusting. What would you say if, whenever it actually gets released, you bought Doom 3 and until a patch was released, you fell through floors and shit? I'm guessing you'd rag till the end of time.
I had the same problem with a liteon dvd drive. It worked for months, and then one day, while ripping a cd (Diana Krall : Live in paris, if you want the exact cd) and halfway through the rip it failed. Windows still saw the cdrom, the BIOS picked it up, I could see it in linux, and use it in linux, and it was still bootable. However, whenever I tried to browse a cd in windows, it would say "Please insert a disk in drive D:" or whatever the error was. The way I fixed it was to pull the driver out of device manager, shut down the machine, take out the DVD drive, and throw in my girlfriends drive (some old burner). Windows started up, burner showed up, and worked fine. Did the same removal process witht he burner, re-installed the DVD drive, and everything worked again. I've had the same problem twice since then, and both times it was fixed the same way. I don't know if that helps or not, but it's what worked for me.
Most of what's in Longhorn (from what I know of right now) is .NET code. I'm almost 100% sure that explorer was modified to be .NET. This doens't mean that you can't write windows apps in C++ anymore, because there are .NET compilers for C++, as well as VB, and many other languages. And C# isn't a proprietary language, if you do some reading you'll find that out. Do your homework, my friend, before you start bitching.
My suggestion would be Cape Breton, which is on the east coast of Canada. You wouldn't want to come here unless it were the summer, because the museums aren't open until the summer. But you could visit the Alexander Grahm Bell museum (you know, they guy with the phone) and the Marconi Museum. In Glace Bay (small small harbour town, nicest people on the face of the earth) you can visit the site of the first wireless broadcasts across the atlantic, and you can also see where the first broadcast of live music ever took place from. And there's all kinds of fishing and mining museums, and the fishing culture and all. There's also the Cabbot trail, which is possibly the most scenic route around the island that you could imagine. That's just my $2.00 x 10^-2
I think I agree that, while this is a *neat* way of doing things, it's exactly what linux *doesn't* need. I constantly read people bickering and ranting about bringing linux to the desktop, and as effecient a means this may be, the only people it would be practical for would be *nix vetrans, who already have experience, and old hardware they don't want to try and run X on. As far as servers go, I know I use 100% command line, I just don't need a window manager to edit conf files. New users to linux will want to see high res, (at least) 16 bit colour, if they're even going to try linux on their pc. This may not hold true for johnny tinkerface, who likes linux for something to play with, but John Mc-cause-its-free will want something that compares to Windows/MacOS. Who knows, maybe i'm just an idiot, but that's my 2 cents.
Alan Wrench : I need Tungsten to live! TUNGSTEN!!!!
At MSN, I recieved the best christmas present ever. I was fired, then given a falsified R.O.E. that stops me from being able to collect any form of Employment Insurance. Ho Ho Ho Bill, merry fuckin christmas.
Stuff like that can't usually be done on DSL. Most cable connections have a lot of the configuration set in the modem, and the line provisioned specifically to the modem. DSL is provisioned (usually) in the phone company's central office at a DSLAM, for different upstream/downstream rates. A lot of Qwest subscribers might notice that they can set a max downstream of 7mbit on a Cisco 67x modem/router, but you'll never hit more than what the DSLAM says you're supposed to get...
dear lord, the brillant mind that thought up that commercial should be removed from the skull, bathed in disinfectant, and then trampeled by a heard of fat women headed towards weight watchers. Can you hear me now?
i'm an un-named Canadian soldier. Apparently there's an outsourcer in the states too, maybe in florida (don't quote me on that). I've been transfered calls from there today, where agents get a customer using 3rd party hubs, with the aformentioned dsl router (on the 252 netmask). That would lead me to believe that the support at that site would be a little lacking, sorry if you're from there, just sayin what we've been getting here.
oh, I forgot to mention one thing. The setup for the hardware (you know you don' need it, but if you want to run it) won't work on win2k, or nt, and if i'm not mistaken, 95, so it's not really MS Friendly either. Whodathunkit?
Hey Guys, I, sadly, work on the support team for this hardware. It's actually a pretty good home router. Admitidly, the network cards and adapters aren't the most non-MS-friendly hardware, but the routers, both of them, are pretty good. The WiFi router is standard 802.11b, uses standard WEP, allows MAC filtering, and will work (or so we're told) with all other standad gear, regardless of who makes it.
;) and some of the worst NAT you'll ever see. They *are*, however, doing a beta trial right now, with a new modem, which, while still on the same netmask, allows you to drop a DMZ to the one available inside ip. So if you had the new modem (probably won't be rolled out by MSN until feburary) and this/any other networking package, you'd be able to get by pretty well. That is, of course, you can deal with their nazi-esque line provisioning, with a max downstream of 640kbps. Dah well, can't win'em all. But I'll say one more time that it's actually nice hardware.
MS actually wants to pair some of this hardware up with it's MSN DSL subscribers. If you have MSN DSL, or know anyone that does, this isn't the best of ideas to look at right now, seeing as you get a modem stuck on a netmask of 255.255.255.252 (doesn't matter if you buy the router
I thought it was a Six Feet Under php release. Chris Barnes is an interactive web app wizard.
The car can give you shopping information? Does this mean communicates with a source to get current information? If it does, ten points goes to the first person to modify it to grab slashdot headlines.
Organic transistors? This could suggest that Bell has been working with an outside company. Can anyone remember "Ch-ch-ch-chia"
Unfortunatly they don't always grow out of it that quick. There's nothing more pathetic than a 27 year old blasting [Death|Black|Mad_At_My_Parents] Metal and thinking it rocks...
I beg to differ. What about nonsensical pop music, or [why_dont_you_love_me] country music, or even [fuck_yall_suck_my_dick] rap? I'd suggest not "baggin" on one specific type of music, due to the fact that it's probably the most subjective area of taste possible.
Inflatable amps and mixers! Maybe even rack-mount inflatable effects, and instruments too. It would bring on a new wave of "air guitar" players.