Google Custom Search Engine is the answer: http://search.ratbert.info/ - 1224 hand picked shopping/spam sites excluded, 179 brand sites boosted. Geared towards IT gadgets.
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IMAP access fixes the issue of easily finding emails with big attachments, just sort by size in your favorite IMAP client.
By default Seamonkey for example has "Maximum number of server connections to cache" (Server Settings -> Advanced...) for IMAP accounts set to 5, but this causes to create a new session (authentication etc) when you move between (first five) folders, set it to 1 and and it uses single connection.
And also a nice feature is that you can view your quota from the IMAP client.
My ongoing gripe with Google is the number of times when the first page is filled with shopping sites, "review" pages, and click through pages
Then create your own Google Custom Search Engine or use some existing ones such as Google Search Excluding Shops that's excluding hand picked 700+ shopping and spam sites and gives ranking boost to 160+ websites of IT and other electronics companies.
Not very accurate, instead you could use manually tuned Google based Search Excluding Shops that cleans up the first page of search results so that crappy shopping and spam sites aren't listed.
Even with classic theme and turning off some unneeded services Vista Business has ~300 MB commit charge after boot, compared with classic Windows XP ~80 MB. And considering the fubared GUI elements of Vista, I think it looks quite like a turd.
If Mozilla coughs up the XML error page then I know I've screwed up some tags, quite handy and I don't have to use the validator.w3.org so often.
The article in question brought one little detail to my attention though: proxies (the caching type). If Mozilla user comes through a proxy and fetches my application/xhtml+xml served XHTML 1.0 page then the page will be cached on the proxy. Now if a clueless MSIE 6.0 user requests the same page via that proxy then he/she gets the File Download dialog with Open Save Cancel buttons.
So I use following if statement to decide what to serve: array_key_exists('HTTP_ACCEPT', $_SERVER) && stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'], 'application/xhtml+xml') && !array_key_exists('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', $_SERVER) && !array_key_exists('HTTP_VIA', $_SERVER)
I know about the request header Accept priority thing but practically it does not get used to demote XHTML AFAIK.
32px icons and their wrapped titles on desktop are so inefficient. Instead in Windows 98/2000/XP you can use the toolbars.
Rightclick on taskbar -> Toolbars -> Desktop
And then drag it vertically to the left of screen, by default with 16px icons and text to the right of icon. Icons stay where you put them instead of cruising around like the usual desktop icons.
And you can define any folder to be a toolbar.
Unfortunately it's a bit buggy, toolbars stay ontop of windows sometimes when using WinKye+D/WinKey+M and restore.
Looking at tethereal capture while using the GWA showed that it doesn't compress HTTP request headers, and no encryption is used to talk to the GWA servers. It does send the X-Forwarded-For header so no real anonymizing is done.
I'll still prefer running encrypted OpenVPN tunnel over switched Ethernet to to a router that is connected to a Squid server that uses ISP proxy as cache_peer.
Also ping RTT to GWA European servers is ~73 ms (11 hops) while to ISP proxy ~19 ms (3 hops) that could count for something too.
Perfect config for me, works on 1.8b suite at least:
browser.link.open_external 3 1: Open in current window (default) 2: Open in new window 3: Open in new tab
browser.link.open_newwindow 1 1: Open in current window 2: Open in new window (default) 3: Open in new tab
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction 2 0: Divert everything (default) 1: Divert target="_blank" etc. but not window.open 2: Divert everything expect window.open with three parameters
privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins 2 0: open allowed (default) 1: limits their number to dom.popup_maximum (even with popup blocker disabled) 2: the window is a popup, block it 3: blocks them even on whitelisted sites
dom.disable_open_during_load true True (default): Block popup windows created while the page is loading False: Allow popup windows
> not to troll or not but since when did Saffari (KHTML) have good CSS2 support?
If I interpret this CVS commit comment correctly then it does have quite a good support (even if buggy in corner cases).
At least KHTML from KDE 3.4 betas has showed my moderately complex standards compliant (XHTML, CSS, DOM, ECMAScript) pages exactly as they look and behave in Gecko & Opera.
To be fair, Transmeta Efficeon range has integrated DDR memory controller too. It's not a true x86 CPU but it can morph x86 instructions into VLIW ones.
2 MB L2 cache doesn't do much by itself, give that Dothan core a 533 MHz FSB instead of the 400 MHz Banias was on and it starts to shine (and of course the power consumption goes up too). Speaking of which, AMD Turion 64 (and Athlon 64) have memory controller in the core not in north bridge like Intel processors, so that 25/35W CPU power envelope includes MC overhead too.
BTW, most 512 kB L2 Athlon 64 CPUs run circles over P4 3.6+ GHz with 2 MB cache in gaming benches, so cache alone means squat;)
And it looks like it's going to be two years until Pentium M range gets 64-bit core. AMD Turion 64 already has 16/16 INT/XMM registers, SSE/SSE2/SSE3 support etc.
And they've gone the extra effort and added HTTP return header of: Expires: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:06:31 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 04:58:08 GMT
Which means that these tiles should stick to your (ISP's) proxy/cache server and load faster the next time around.
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Google Custom Search Engine is the answer: http://search.ratbert.info/ - 1224 hand picked shopping/spam sites excluded, 179 brand sites boosted. Geared towards IT gadgets.
End result looks like this: http://i37.tinypic.com/iw2jo0.png
http://tar.rapla.net/feeds/
130+ feeds divided into categories in OPML.xml that's styled with XSL.
IMAP access fixes the issue of easily finding emails with big attachments, just sort by size in your favorite IMAP client.
By default Seamonkey for example has "Maximum number of server connections to cache" (Server Settings -> Advanced...) for IMAP accounts set to 5, but this causes to create a new session (authentication etc) when you move between (first five) folders, set it to 1 and and it uses single connection.
And also a nice feature is that you can view your quota from the IMAP client.
Then create your own Google Custom Search Engine or use some existing ones such as Google Search Excluding Shops that's excluding hand picked 700+ shopping and spam sites and gives ranking boost to 160+ websites of IT and other electronics companies.
Not very accurate, instead you could use manually tuned Google based Search Excluding Shops that cleans up the first page of search results so that crappy shopping and spam sites aren't listed.
Even with classic theme and turning off some unneeded services Vista Business has ~300 MB commit charge after boot, compared with classic Windows XP ~80 MB. And considering the fubared GUI elements of Vista, I think it looks quite like a turd.
Same idea but the other way - excluding known shopping sites, 150+ of them
Just go to AMD's Enterprise site root and you can guess correct link to Pacifica - AMD's Virtualization Solutions - which is linked from AMD's Business Solutions page.
Their webmastering team needs a spanking though.
There is already a option to run OpenOffice inside Firefox using the npsoplugin.dll
Now if they'd integrate it a bit more, make it possible to save documents to Google servers over WebDAV or such (Base, Gmail or whatever)...
As long as StarOffice/OpenOffice.org startup time is I/O (HDD speed) bound it wont kill anything.
If Mozilla coughs up the XML error page then I know I've screwed up some tags, quite handy and I don't have to use the validator.w3.org so often.
The article in question brought one little detail to my attention though: proxies (the caching type). If Mozilla user comes through a proxy and fetches my application/xhtml+xml served XHTML 1.0 page then the page will be cached on the proxy. Now if a clueless MSIE 6.0 user requests the same page via that proxy then he/she gets the File Download dialog with Open Save Cancel buttons.
So I use following if statement to decide what to serve:
array_key_exists('HTTP_ACCEPT', $_SERVER) && stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'], 'application/xhtml+xml') && !array_key_exists('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', $_SERVER) && !array_key_exists('HTTP_VIA', $_SERVER)
I know about the request header Accept priority thing but practically it does not get used to demote XHTML AFAIK.
32px icons and their wrapped titles on desktop are so inefficient. Instead in Windows 98/2000/XP you can use the toolbars.
Rightclick on taskbar -> Toolbars -> Desktop
And then drag it vertically to the left of screen, by default with 16px icons and text to the right of icon. Icons stay where you put them instead of cruising around like the usual desktop icons.
And you can define any folder to be a toolbar.
Unfortunately it's a bit buggy, toolbars stay ontop of windows sometimes when using WinKye+D/WinKey+M and restore.
If only KDE had the toolbar feature...
Video demonstration of Chinook helicopter landing on a carrier gone wrong: spa6.wmv (download link below).
Looking at tethereal capture while using the GWA showed that it doesn't compress HTTP request headers, and no encryption is used to talk to the GWA servers. It does send the X-Forwarded-For header so no real anonymizing is done.
I'll still prefer running encrypted OpenVPN tunnel over switched Ethernet to to a router that is connected to a Squid server that uses ISP proxy as cache_peer.
Also ping RTT to GWA European servers is ~73 ms (11 hops) while to ISP proxy ~19 ms (3 hops) that could count for something too.
Perfect config for me, works on 1.8b suite at least:
browser.link.open_external 3
1: Open in current window (default)
2: Open in new window
3: Open in new tab
browser.link.open_newwindow 1
1: Open in current window
2: Open in new window (default)
3: Open in new tab
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction 2
0: Divert everything (default)
1: Divert target="_blank" etc. but not window.open
2: Divert everything expect window.open with three parameters
privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins 2
0: open allowed (default)
1: limits their number to dom.popup_maximum (even with popup blocker disabled)
2: the window is a popup, block it
3: blocks them even on whitelisted sites
dom.disable_open_during_load true
True (default): Block popup windows created while the page is loading
False: Allow popup windows
FYI: Google Spam Report page.
It takes quite a bit of time to affect things but seems to work.
> not to troll or not but since when did Saffari (KHTML) have good CSS2 support?
If I interpret this CVS commit comment correctly then it does have quite a good support (even if buggy in corner cases).
At least KHTML from KDE 3.4 betas has showed my moderately complex standards compliant (XHTML, CSS, DOM, ECMAScript) pages exactly as they look and behave in Gecko & Opera.
To be fair, Transmeta Efficeon range has integrated DDR memory controller too. It's not a true x86 CPU but it can morph x86 instructions into VLIW ones.
:/
It's a shame that it hasn't been too successful
2 MB L2 cache doesn't do much by itself, give that Dothan core a 533 MHz FSB instead of the 400 MHz Banias was on and it starts to shine (and of course the power consumption goes up too). Speaking of which, AMD Turion 64 (and Athlon 64) have memory controller in the core not in north bridge like Intel processors, so that 25/35W CPU power envelope includes MC overhead too.
;)
BTW, most 512 kB L2 Athlon 64 CPUs run circles over P4 3.6+ GHz with 2 MB cache in gaming benches, so cache alone means squat
And it looks like it's going to be two years until Pentium M range gets 64-bit core. AMD Turion 64 already has 16/16 INT/XMM registers, SSE/SSE2/SSE3 support etc.
> The best best best part about Opera is that it doesn't check with the server when you hit the back button!!!
If you control the squid proxy that you use then add:
to squid.conf, it strips the no-caching headers and Gecko doesn't try to fetch the page again when going back.
It goes against the HTTP spec but cache control headers are overused anyway.
> The image is made out of an array of tiles, each a GIF about 3.6K in size.
> They have URLs like this: http://mt.google.com/mt?v=.3&x=5&y=-4&zoom=8
And they've gone the extra effort and added HTTP return header of:
Expires: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:06:31 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 04:58:08 GMT
Which means that these tiles should stick to your (ISP's) proxy/cache server and load faster the next time around.