Just tried computicket.com in Firefox on WinXP
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...and lo and behold it doesn't work, but there is a trick that works on sites like this 9 times out of 10, it's called user agent switcher and allows you to pretend that Firefox is another browser. Doesn't get around sites that use javascript to detect your browser (and then bitch and moan that you are using Netscape 1.0 or somesuch rubish), but the ones who do it on the server side are easily fooled by this. Once you've finished on that site, simply change it back to the proper string via the user agent selection menu (so that websites get real stats).
Hope that helps!
Oh..and another trick, I found myself continually going for the IE icon instead of the firebird (at the time) icon, so I simply mapped the ie icon to open up firebird! In a day my browsing was transformed and I have not looked back.
The only reason I now use ie is to check sites I'm working on, but normally if they look good in firefox they'll look good in ie too (I only use hand-coded html, it's simpler to make it cross browser compatible)
...the BBC used this a few years ago for a charity fundraiser night (Children in Need) where they had lots of popular BBC progs (eastenders, a special doctor who etc.) in 3d, you bought glasses, one eye with a slightly dark filter and it looked like it was in 3d.
I assume this is a similar effect to what happens if you are looking at a cellphone screen in the dark. Try moving the cellphone around. The cellphone screen seems to "overshoot" or follow later than the actual cellphone. Maybe your eye sees dark things before or after light things which has the same effect as moving quicktime forward a few frames?
...and I have one with to say, this game rocks. It's really accessible, I was playing online and getting frags within a few minutes and it's all free. For the sake of a 20 meg download get this game now:o)
long answer...it is possible but not with these progs. You need a piece of software called Streambox VCR, this doesn't actually make wav/avi files however, but it does allow you to save a stream for future use. I know people who used to record BBC Radio 1 programmes (normally the live dj sets they have (the essential mix) from 2-4 every sunday morning). The BBC radio player is great because you can listen to all specialist shows for a week after they are broadcast, which gave ample time to rip using streambox.
and is currently running only 40 times slower than host, that's very impressive given the register starvation problem. With future versions I'm sure they will be working on optimisations, the graphics code may be slowing things down simewhat as I understand Quartz uses 3d graphics hardware for some of its compositing magic.
I think this is definately a project to keep an eye on, plus with platforms like Athlon64/Opteron this may be far more viable.
Picture this: Pearpc with a bootloader and very basic stripped down gnu/linux system, or even pearpc with its own kernel acting simply as a Hardware Abstraction Layer to boot you into OS X. You lose the cruft of having it run on a full operating system and would hopefully improve speed .
this works fine in diesel vehicles, plus vegetable oil comes from a renewable source. I think Top Gear here in the UK did a test where they took an old diesel volvo and actually got better performance out of it with the veg oil/meths combo than with normal diesel.
Also, what about rape seed oil, I remember watching tomorrows world years ago when they were extolling it as the next big fuel.
..., the paypal transaction details and no recording of a delivery by post/fedex etc., maybe you should take this up with your guys equivalent of the british trading standards agency (IIRC it's called the better business bureau).
After that, talk to a solicitor/lawyer about taking these guys to a small claims court for your moolah back. Ok, it may cost you a bit and may or may not be worth it, but when a company screws me over I like to screw em back, harder and in places they don't wanna;o)
...look at crypto export restrictions. To get a legal copy of PGP you used to have to go to pgpi(.com,.org? I can't remember which, too lazy and tired to google it). They were able to distribute it as there was a loophole in the law that allowed printed source code to be exported. This was promptly ocr'd, compiled and then distributed, so there is some (tenuous) precedent to backup my thinking;o)
IIRC the reason they do not offer binaries is for legal/IP reasons. There are so many patents covering every part of MPEG 4, by sticking to source code only they seem to have stayed "under the radar" so to speak.
they had 3 versions, the one with no ads, but "play only", one with adware + encoding, and then the full $30USD one that let you do everything without ads.
That is incorrect, the free codec with no ads can encode (hence co(mpressor)dec(ompressor)) but doesn't have all of the fine-grained settings that the pro version has. In addition to this, the pro version has an optimised encoder resulting in encode times roughly 20% faster (depending on source material and proc speed).
Did you actually read my post?
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Just because things all go through index.php and are routed on from there in Fusebox doesn't make the url difficult to understand if you use mod_rewrite to pretty up (and make search engine safe) the url.
Seriously, have a look at Fusebox for PHP (or coldfusion, ASP or $favourite_scripting_language), it has increased productivity and code reuse in our company.
The other nice thing is naming conventions have you putting your "action/logic" code into files prepended with act_ and your display code into files prepended with dsp_, helping somewhat to enforce the notion of MVC. When used with a templating engine such as smarty however there is no other way to do it and one of my pet gripes with php (the mixing of logic and display) is banished forever:o)
...are you behind a firewall or router? Are you natted? All these things can affect dl speed. If you are natted make sure that you forward the ports. You wouldn't believe the number of people who diss Bittorrent because they get crap speeds. When probed slightly deeper 9 times out of 10 they are using some sort of router (linksys et al) which is between them and the internet - at which point I run them through Networking 101 and explain why, how to fix it and lo and behold they come back and say "wow...now I see what you mean".
Of course, it could be because there's 1 seed and 20000 peers, with the 1 seed upping at 1k/s. Sucks? Yup, deal with it and wait until there a more seeds. Normally though after the release of a new torrent the people on fast pipes are able to download and start seeding large files after 10 or so minutes, if not less.
Probably a few reasons:
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1) Some of these patches may introduce subtle bugs into interactions with 3rd party libraries (that covers pretty much most of the major function()s in PHP)
2) Some of these patches may introduce performance hits which would not be acceptable for some uses.
3) If you are running a large hosting company these patches may subtly break scripts being used by customers, tech supportality ensues.
4) Since this is a fairly new project, not even to a 1.0 release the pace of change may be so fast that it's more trouble than it's worth for the PHP and HPHP guys to keep making patch after patch as api's and such change. This way, the HPHP guys can toil away, making whatever internal changes they need to to achieve the securing of PHP.
I'm not saying this isn't a good idea, just I don't think it's the right time for this to happen, when the codebase has settled down maybe, but with the imminent move to the Zend Engine 2 and PHP 5 they may have to start from scratch (don't quote me on that however, it could be trivial for all I know!).
Nothing wrong running everything through index.php
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have you ever used the fusebox methedology?
Although it may be nicer to use mod_rewrite to be able to use friendly url's
For instance in my companies e-commerce web app you can either use:
or http://www.site.url/shop.category/categoryid/xxx
Whatever, they all get piped through index.php through which then puts them through to the relevant circuit (i.e. shop) and fuse(action) (i.e. category).
...I regularly max out my connection (512k ADSL) downloading a torrent. It gets to the point where the net is unusable it's sucking that much bandwidth. So I use it at night when I'm in bed. Last night I downloaded 1750 MiB in ~8 hours.
Remember, download rate is dependant on your upload rate so if you're only upping at 1k/s you won't be downloading that fast, other peers play tit-for-tat and choke you (don't honour your requests) if you upload blocks too slowly.
...and I know a lot of other people in the community who don't do that, sure some people will turn their client off straight away but then some people on kazaa or whatnot will just turn off sharing and be e leach.
I've got my bittorrent client (Azureus) running 24x7 but only sharing torrents that need seeders. I stop seeding when there is a seed for every 4 peers (as long as I've upped 50%). When the seed/peer ratio goes down I have Azureus auto start the torrent and continue uploading. This way I give my bandwidth to those torrents that need it most.
I also leave my computer on at night and since I'm on broadband with no cap I keep it uploading stuff. Hey, I'm paying for always on so I may as well use it, plus I'm not saturating the local loop during the day and pissing off other people.
All joking aside, how long must it have taken to a) design that and b) build the damn thing. I can imagine it being very complex to lay out...where would you start?
Kudos to the architect and the builders, they've done a great job.
...paid...they should be paid with interest plus fined/sued for compensation. This is a perfect opportunity to point out that there shouldn't be one rule for consumers and one rule for the conglomerates.
Buying a PC WITHOUT Windows is a difficult task, and will probably end up costing more in the long run.
Bollocks is the short and simple answer to that. If you want a pc without paying the windows tax all you have to do is a) go to walmart or even better b) buy the components yourself and build a machine, not only will it be cheaper than a bought machine but you are able to spec decent hardware, not whatever crap the company decided to stick in there. For a small to medium sized company this should be a no brainer, I can build a machine in well under half an hour from unpacking the boxes to switching on the power so even when factoring in employee time you still come out ahead.
Yes and no. Typically a lot of oss (and non oss) have one central place to track bugs and feature requests, it just makes it simpler for devs to check one source for what to do next.
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...and lo and behold it doesn't work, but there is a trick that works on sites like this 9 times out of 10, it's called user agent switcher and allows you to pretend that Firefox is another browser. Doesn't get around sites that use javascript to detect your browser (and then bitch and moan that you are using Netscape 1.0 or somesuch rubish), but the ones who do it on the server side are easily fooled by this. Once you've finished on that site, simply change it back to the proper string via the user agent selection menu (so that websites get real stats).
Hope that helps!
Oh..and another trick, I found myself continually going for the IE icon instead of the firebird (at the time) icon, so I simply mapped the ie icon to open up firebird! In a day my browsing was transformed and I have not looked back.
The only reason I now use ie is to check sites I'm working on, but normally if they look good in firefox they'll look good in ie too (I only use hand-coded html, it's simpler to make it cross browser compatible)
machine. I run it on an Athlon 1800 with 512 megs of ram and the thing positively flies. CVS is slow at the best of times anyway.
Have you tried increasing the heap size allocated to the Virtual Machine?
...the BBC used this a few years ago for a charity fundraiser night (Children in Need) where they had lots of popular BBC progs (eastenders, a special doctor who etc.) in 3d, you bought glasses, one eye with a slightly dark filter and it looked like it was in 3d.
I assume this is a similar effect to what happens if you are looking at a cellphone screen in the dark. Try moving the cellphone around. The cellphone screen seems to "overshoot" or follow later than the actual cellphone. Maybe your eye sees dark things before or after light things which has the same effect as moving quicktime forward a few frames?
...(as others have said) is the utter attention to detail, case in point, the biohazard fan guard on the PSU as seen here.
...and I have one with to say, this game rocks. It's really accessible, I was playing online and getting frags within a few minutes and it's all free. For the sake of a 20 meg download get this game now :o)
...should have all of the tools (including sshd) that you should require.
long answer...it is possible but not with these progs. You need a piece of software called Streambox VCR, this doesn't actually make wav/avi files however, but it does allow you to save a stream for future use. I know people who used to record BBC Radio 1 programmes (normally the live dj sets they have (the essential mix) from 2-4 every sunday morning). The BBC radio player is great because you can listen to all specialist shows for a week after they are broadcast, which gave ample time to rip using streambox.
look here! ;o)
and is currently running only 40 times slower than host, that's very impressive given the register starvation problem. With future versions I'm sure they will be working on optimisations, the graphics code may be slowing things down simewhat as I understand Quartz uses 3d graphics hardware for some of its compositing magic.
I think this is definately a project to keep an eye on, plus with platforms like Athlon64/Opteron this may be far more viable.
Picture this: Pearpc with a bootloader and very basic stripped down gnu/linux system, or even pearpc with its own kernel acting simply as a Hardware Abstraction Layer to boot you into OS X. You lose the cruft of having it run on a full operating system and would hopefully improve speed .
this works fine in diesel vehicles, plus vegetable oil comes from a renewable source. I think Top Gear here in the UK did a test where they took an old diesel volvo and actually got better performance out of it with the veg oil/meths combo than with normal diesel.
Also, what about rape seed oil, I remember watching tomorrows world years ago when they were extolling it as the next big fuel.
..., the paypal transaction details and no recording of a delivery by post/fedex etc., maybe you should take this up with your guys equivalent of the british trading standards agency (IIRC it's called the better business bureau).
;o)
After that, talk to a solicitor/lawyer about taking these guys to a small claims court for your moolah back. Ok, it may cost you a bit and may or may not be worth it, but when a company screws me over I like to screw em back, harder and in places they don't wanna
...look at crypto export restrictions. To get a legal copy of PGP you used to have to go to pgpi(.com, .org? I can't remember which, too lazy and tired to google it). They were able to distribute it as there was a loophole in the law that allowed printed source code to be exported. This was promptly ocr'd, compiled and then distributed, so there is some (tenuous) precedent to backup my thinking ;o)
IIRC the reason they do not offer binaries is for legal/IP reasons. There are so many patents covering every part of MPEG 4, by sticking to source code only they seem to have stayed "under the radar" so to speak.
they had 3 versions, the one with no ads, but "play only", one with adware + encoding, and then the full $30USD one that let you do everything without ads.
That is incorrect, the free codec with no ads can encode (hence co(mpressor)dec(ompressor)) but doesn't have all of the fine-grained settings that the pro version has. In addition to this, the pro version has an optimised encoder resulting in encode times roughly 20% faster (depending on source material and proc speed).
Just because things all go through index.php and are routed on from there in Fusebox doesn't make the url difficult to understand if you use mod_rewrite to pretty up (and make search engine safe) the url.
:o)
Seriously, have a look at Fusebox for PHP (or coldfusion, ASP or $favourite_scripting_language), it has increased productivity and code reuse in our company.
The other nice thing is naming conventions have you putting your "action/logic" code into files prepended with act_ and your display code into files prepended with dsp_, helping somewhat to enforce the notion of MVC. When used with a templating engine such as smarty however there is no other way to do it and one of my pet gripes with php (the mixing of logic and display) is banished forever
...are you behind a firewall or router? Are you natted? All these things can affect dl speed. If you are natted make sure that you forward the ports. You wouldn't believe the number of people who diss Bittorrent because they get crap speeds. When probed slightly deeper 9 times out of 10 they are using some sort of router (linksys et al) which is between them and the internet - at which point I run them through Networking 101 and explain why, how to fix it and lo and behold they come back and say "wow...now I see what you mean".
Of course, it could be because there's 1 seed and 20000 peers, with the 1 seed upping at 1k/s. Sucks? Yup, deal with it and wait until there a more seeds. Normally though after the release of a new torrent the people on fast pipes are able to download and start seeding large files after 10 or so minutes, if not less.
1) Some of these patches may introduce subtle bugs into interactions with 3rd party libraries (that covers pretty much most of the major function()s in PHP)
2) Some of these patches may introduce performance hits which would not be acceptable for some uses.
3) If you are running a large hosting company these patches may subtly break scripts being used by customers, tech supportality ensues.
4) Since this is a fairly new project, not even to a 1.0 release the pace of change may be so fast that it's more trouble than it's worth for the PHP and HPHP guys to keep making patch after patch as api's and such change. This way, the HPHP guys can toil away, making whatever internal changes they need to to achieve the securing of PHP.
I'm not saying this isn't a good idea, just I don't think it's the right time for this to happen, when the codebase has settled down maybe, but with the imminent move to the Zend Engine 2 and PHP 5 they may have to start from scratch (don't quote me on that however, it could be trivial for all I know!).
have you ever used the fusebox methedology?
e gory&categoryid=xxx
e gory/categoryid/xxx
Although it may be nicer to use mod_rewrite to be able to use friendly url's
For instance in my companies e-commerce web app you can either use:
http://www.site.url/index.php?fuseaction=shop.cat
http://www.site.url/index.php/fuseaction/shop.cat
or http://www.site.url/shop.category/categoryid/xxx
Whatever, they all get piped through index.php through which then puts them through to the relevant circuit (i.e. shop) and fuse(action) (i.e. category).
...I regularly max out my connection (512k ADSL) downloading a torrent. It gets to the point where the net is unusable it's sucking that much bandwidth. So I use it at night when I'm in bed. Last night I downloaded 1750 MiB in ~8 hours.
Remember, download rate is dependant on your upload rate so if you're only upping at 1k/s you won't be downloading that fast, other peers play tit-for-tat and choke you (don't honour your requests) if you upload blocks too slowly.
...and I know a lot of other people in the community who don't do that, sure some people will turn their client off straight away but then some people on kazaa or whatnot will just turn off sharing and be e leach.
I've got my bittorrent client (Azureus) running 24x7 but only sharing torrents that need seeders. I stop seeding when there is a seed for every 4 peers (as long as I've upped 50%). When the seed/peer ratio goes down I have Azureus auto start the torrent and continue uploading. This way I give my bandwidth to those torrents that need it most.
I also leave my computer on at night and since I'm on broadband with no cap I keep it uploading stuff. Hey, I'm paying for always on so I may as well use it, plus I'm not saturating the local loop during the day and pissing off other people.
Could I be put on your list please? I really want to try the mail search features. :o)
...and working as an architect.
All joking aside, how long must it have taken to a) design that and b) build the damn thing. I can imagine it being very complex to lay out...where would you start?
Kudos to the architect and the builders, they've done a great job.
...paid...they should be paid with interest plus fined/sued for compensation. This is a perfect opportunity to point out that there shouldn't be one rule for consumers and one rule for the conglomerates.
Buying a PC WITHOUT Windows is a difficult task, and will probably end up costing more in the long run.
Bollocks is the short and simple answer to that. If you want a pc without paying the windows tax all you have to do is a) go to walmart or even better b) buy the components yourself and build a machine, not only will it be cheaper than a bought machine but you are able to spec decent hardware, not whatever crap the company decided to stick in there. For a small to medium sized company this should be a no brainer, I can build a machine in well under half an hour from unpacking the boxes to switching on the power so even when factoring in employee time you still come out ahead.Yes and no. Typically a lot of oss (and non oss) have one central place to track bugs and feature requests, it just makes it simpler for devs to check one source for what to do next.