Whenever something about downloadable software is posted to/., why not wait until a.torrent is created then directing people to that.torrent? Granted, that might not eliminate the/. effect, but I'm sure I can't be the only one going to that site just to download the client.
And hell, even/. editors wouldn't need to be in charge of that. If you can see into the "Mysterious Future", why not head over to the site, d/l the client, and setup a.torrent before the post goes live? Maybe the/. editors could allow subscribers to slightly modify future posts, by letting them post mirrors and what not for the sites/software?
And let's not forget Flash will render things MUCH quicker. Flash is vector based, and we all know how much smaller vector based graphics are.
Here at work, we created a fairly complex animation using all Flash, and it weighed in at under 12KB. I can't even begin to imagine what kind of hell that would be in DHTML... just the preloading of images alone would be enough to make any user click "stop".
True.
But you'd sorta hope the admin(s) of the server would change their configuration around to handle that kind of stressload, so they don't get/.-ed again, right?
Wouldn't submitting that data be the perfect test to see if their new configuration really worked?
Personally I believe it to be getting much worse, since I'm currently in a uni and our uni is comfortably in bed with Microsoft.
While I understand why any university would be in bed with MS, I still don't understand why a multi-platform approach isn't widely used... the only reason I say this is because in order for us to get our school email we need to login to a UNIX server and use PINE to open our inbox - AND, if we publish static HTML it needs to be done in ~username/public_html.
I mean - if they're already willing to teach us basic commands and what not, why not modify the curriculum a bit to incorporate g++?
You're right. You're a programmer, and not a designer.
What should happen, in any halfway decent web design department, is that a designer creates the page and the layout, and you do all the server-side grunt work.
If you're being forced to tool around with crap like XHTML/HTML or CSS at your job, then obviously your skills are being wasted. I can understand Javascript code or something, but as a programmer, you really should never have to muck around with a table tag to get the layout perfect.
I'm in agreement. If you've been coding for a while, you should be able to devise your own Perl scripts/Java app/whatever to handle the regression testing for you.
But - if there's something already out there that will help, then why should he reinvent the wheel?
Slashdot Mirror
Seeing how pasty and beareded alot of us Slashdotters are, I think we're better off with just a "hot, lesbian sister".
+4 Funny?
Everyone's asking how to make Linux on the desktop more like Windows on the desktop, and this is a good start.
If anything, this should be +4 Insightful.
> My car doesn't have a special fuel purge if I decide to fill it full of ketchup.
You obviously need to get the 2004 model then.
I did this when switching from MDK 8 to Debian.
I've heard nightmares about configuring X in Debian, so I went the Knoppix route and have never been happier.
What about something like this?
Whenever something about downloadable software is posted to /., why not wait until a .torrent is created then directing people to that .torrent? Granted, that might not eliminate the /. effect, but I'm sure I can't be the only one going to that site just to download the client.
And hell, even /. editors wouldn't need to be in charge of that. If you can see into the "Mysterious Future", why not head over to the site, d/l the client, and setup a .torrent before the post goes live? Maybe the /. editors could allow subscribers to slightly modify future posts, by letting them post mirrors and what not for the sites/software?
I dunno. Just a thought.
And let's not forget Flash will render things MUCH quicker. Flash is vector based, and we all know how much smaller vector based graphics are. Here at work, we created a fairly complex animation using all Flash, and it weighed in at under 12KB. I can't even begin to imagine what kind of hell that would be in DHTML... just the preloading of images alone would be enough to make any user click "stop".
True. But you'd sorta hope the admin(s) of the server would change their configuration around to handle that kind of stressload, so they don't get /.-ed again, right?
Wouldn't submitting that data be the perfect test to see if their new configuration really worked?
Personally I believe it to be getting much worse, since I'm currently in a uni and our uni is comfortably in bed with Microsoft. While I understand why any university would be in bed with MS, I still don't understand why a multi-platform approach isn't widely used... the only reason I say this is because in order for us to get our school email we need to login to a UNIX server and use PINE to open our inbox - AND, if we publish static HTML it needs to be done in ~username/public_html. I mean - if they're already willing to teach us basic commands and what not, why not modify the curriculum a bit to incorporate g++?
... we all earned from Bart in episode 2F20 (The conclusion to "Maggie Shot Mr. Burns") that no court would ever accept DNA evidence!
You're right. You're a programmer, and not a designer.
What should happen, in any halfway decent web design department, is that a designer creates the page and the layout, and you do all the server-side grunt work.
If you're being forced to tool around with crap like XHTML/HTML or CSS at your job, then obviously your skills are being wasted. I can understand Javascript code or something, but as a programmer, you really should never have to muck around with a table tag to get the layout perfect.
Every driver should do this, since we all know that Linux never crashes. ;)
... I was taught that whenever I get lost, I should ask a policeman for help.
I just got my broadband connection a month ago, but in conjunction with that I got two roommates as well.
Two roommates, who are not geeks. This, has greatly improved my social life and happiness. And we don't even have cable.
Admittedly, I drink much more, but that's probably a topic best left for another day.
Wow, not only is Postfix a suitable replacement for sendmail, it's also a suitable synonym for suffix.
I'm in agreement. If you've been coding for a while, you should be able to devise your own Perl scripts/Java app/whatever to handle the regression testing for you.
But - if there's something already out there that will help, then why should he reinvent the wheel?
since via seems to be /.ed, let's go straight to the press release:
http://www.shuttlegroup.com/ss50subpage.htm
remember? news for nerds? stuff that matters? for most nerds, something like this matters.