Personally, I think the mozilla team has some much, much important bugs. Like any bug labeled [Crash]. Let's get the real bugs fixed before we go adding gestures into the web browser.
That website is the best website I have read in a LONG TIME! I'll certainly think twice next time I come near one of so many DHMO infected foods and beverages.
I have to say this is totally true with me also. It seems you can't go to a site anywhere these days without getting bombarded by X10 popup ads. They're especially sneaky as they don't popup in the foreground, they popup in the background. I don't think website designers realize how much control they give to advertisers by allowing them to do popup ads. I recently was on namezero and their advertisement popup'd up a popup ad, that pop up'd another pop up ad, which pop up'd another pop up ad which was porn. It was totally unbelieveable... it was like the slippery slope of slime. Good site popups annoying site popups bad site popups sick site. Argh. I can't wait until mozilla has the feature to stop popup windows...
The web is becoming way too entrenched in ads. This guys experiment in microads may have failed, but may have chosen poor keywords or uneffective wording. Personally, I know I MUCH more likely to click on a micro-ad. Micro-ads tend to represent what I am looking for. I would say google.com gets about %10 click-through on me, and that is WAY higher than any other site.
I really think very macro ads are really shooting themselves in the foot. I think that online advertisers are starting to forget something even more important than click-through -- brand recognition. In the case of X10, I now dispise their brand. I was planning on buying several hundred dollars of wireless security stuff from there, but they can forget it now. I wouldn't trust them with my credit card number.
I think the big players in advertising -- not other websites -- should start looking at the web more seriously for brand recognition. Really internet advertising is very cheap for the number of impressions especially if the ad is very tasteful. However, I think the annoying flash, popup, multiple banner ads are making online ads undesireable for brand recognition. They are doing nothing more than annoying the customer. Could you imagine on TV if commercials would begin to overlay the current TV show? During the commercial break if the screen broke up into a 3x3 grid of individual ads with their sounds overlapping. This is much like advertisement on the net today. It won't work.
Which last Thursday would that be? This last Thursday? How about this last Thursday? Nice one yahoo... post an article from April 2000 in May 2001. I bet microsoft will be angry as heck. And they deserve to be, this seems like plain libel to me.
I believe that the reason you feel the menus are are so slow on mozilla is not actually do to mozilla's design be rather how linux handles thread context switching.... try reading the thread around my post on it in a separate discussion. I noticed mozilla menus felt much better after this change.. just as fast if not faster than netscape.
I almost forgot the -c1 option! That's one of the best options actually... it turns on 32-bit data-transfers... provides quite a nice performance increase.
Can all be changed with hdparm. I use
hdparm -W1 -m16 -u1 -c1 -k1 -d1/dev/hda
on start up.
That is...
-W1 enable the write caching feature
-m16 allow 16 blocks per i/o interrupt
-u1 IRQ unmasking.. HUGE proformance increase. If you notice everything seems to stop when your doing a lot of I/O be sure to turn this on!
-k1 keep settings.
-d1 enable DMA
From my simple benchmarks/experience these seem to be fastest settings for my IBM DeskStar 14gb HD. Your mileage may vary.
That's a very intriguing design. I would imagine it would make Linux respond WAY faster. It would certainly help in the desktop end, and it appears the extremely high-end also. I look forward to trying this out in 2.5 (Let's hope it makes it in...)
Recently, I was writing an application in Java that used small Thread.sleep(). It was appearing to sleep _way_ too long though. Thread.sleep(0,1) (one nanosecond) would sleep the same as Thread.sleep(10) (10 milliseconds). I began to think of why this might be.. and then it hit me.. it's the context switching. So I looked around and found some sites talking about real-time audio and changing the context switching speed.
I found if you change the/usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/param.h file to #define HZ 1000 rather than #define HZ 100 everything GUI was _much_ _much_ faster. The GIMP seems to load in literally 1/5 the time.
Why don't distribuations like Ximian suggest this change? With heavily multi-threaded gui applications it seems to me it's an absolute must. Everything seems to run better to me with the faster context switching. (well, except for remote X, with the fast switching it seems to update a lot faster, and thus clog the connection and make it seem slow).
Anyone know why this is not more heavily publicized?
Ian
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Kuro5hin is an OSDN partner. (I believe nearly totally funded by OSDN) OSDN is owned by VA Linux. Andover is owned by VA Linux. They are essentially owned by the same parent company. Even though kuro5hin isn't really owned by VA Linux, it is probably could be financially controlled if VA Linux so wished.
Uh... +1 funny?... about as much as a goatse.cx link. Because if you look in the back of the picture.. oh yeah.. that's about a 100x100 pixel picture of dude's butt. Gross. Do not click.
When I followed the links given by CmdrTaco and the press release was on the site itself.. I almost laughed and thought never trust a press release on a satire site.. so I went looking on the net to see if it was true or not.. sure enough I found this on official peabody site. Way to go daily show:)
I HATE intersitals. These are about the only form of advertising that annoys me enough to write webmasters. One of my favorite weather sites (www.intellicast.com) started using intersitals. I wrote them ranting about how much I hated them, how annoying your customers isn't a good way to sell things, and just for good measure ranted a bit on how I didn't like their new directory structure. Interestingly, about a month later I a boiler plate reply, "We're sorry we've annoyed you.. we just want to make money to supply you with great content, blah blah" but the cool thing was it got forwarded to about 7 different people! I don't think the webmasters like uglifying their sites like this. The decisions are almost surely coming from managers. When you find an intersital, send off an email to the webmaster, you might just help them get their site un-uglified.
If you don't want to have to pay for the download find someone else that has the CD and copy it. Then put that copy on the internet. The GPL does protect your right to do that.
I've seen several posts already saying the number of violent crimes committed by youth has dropped. Oh yay us. Let's give kids more violent games. Well.. yes the pure numbers show that. However, there is also a lot less kids than then there were. So while the rates go up.. the numbers are going down.
Out of curiousity... regarding your sig.. do you have a copy of the article associated with it? It seems the onion no longer has it archived and I want to read that story!
The random slashdot story generator! It's too funny. Complete with bad grammar!
plain text for those of you afraid of a goatse.cx link..
http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.html
Hahaha.... that reminds of when Windows 2000s starts up it says. "Built on NT Technology" Well... NT means New Technology so if you break down the acronymns built on "New Technology Technology" kinda humorous.
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Personally, I think the mozilla team has some much, much important bugs. Like any bug labeled [Crash]. Let's get the real bugs fixed before we go adding gestures into the web browser.
Ian
That website is the best website I have read in a LONG TIME! I'll certainly think twice next time I come near one of so many DHMO infected foods and beverages.
Ian Zink
I have to say this is totally true with me also. It seems you can't go to a site anywhere these days without getting bombarded by X10 popup ads. They're especially sneaky as they don't popup in the foreground, they popup in the background. I don't think website designers realize how much control they give to advertisers by allowing them to do popup ads. I recently was on namezero and their advertisement popup'd up a popup ad, that pop up'd another pop up ad, which pop up'd another pop up ad which was porn. It was totally unbelieveable... it was like the slippery slope of slime. Good site popups annoying site popups bad site popups sick site. Argh. I can't wait until mozilla has the feature to stop popup windows...
The web is becoming way too entrenched in ads. This guys experiment in microads may have failed, but may have chosen poor keywords or uneffective wording. Personally, I know I MUCH more likely to click on a micro-ad. Micro-ads tend to represent what I am looking for. I would say google.com gets about %10 click-through on me, and that is WAY higher than any other site.
I really think very macro ads are really shooting themselves in the foot. I think that online advertisers are starting to forget something even more important than click-through -- brand recognition. In the case of X10, I now dispise their brand. I was planning on buying several hundred dollars of wireless security stuff from there, but they can forget it now. I wouldn't trust them with my credit card number.
I think the big players in advertising -- not other websites -- should start looking at the web more seriously for brand recognition. Really internet advertising is very cheap for the number of impressions especially if the ad is very tasteful. However, I think the annoying flash, popup, multiple banner ads are making online ads undesireable for brand recognition. They are doing nothing more than annoying the customer. Could you imagine on TV if commercials would begin to overlay the current TV show? During the commercial break if the screen broke up into a 3x3 grid of individual ads with their sounds overlapping. This is much like advertisement on the net today. It won't work.
Ian
And I found this web site http://www.maya.cz/minidisc/minidisc/equipment_bro wser.html It lists 6 different minidisc drives from Sony and Sharp.
Perhaps MD will be CD-Rs as 3.5" floppies are to 5" in floppies.
Ian Zink
Which last Thursday would that be? This last Thursday? How about this last Thursday? Nice one yahoo... post an article from April 2000 in May 2001. I bet microsoft will be angry as heck. And they deserve to be, this seems like plain libel to me.
I believe that the reason you feel the menus are are so slow on mozilla is not actually do to mozilla's design be rather how linux handles thread context switching.... try reading the thread around my post on it in a separate discussion. I noticed mozilla menus felt much better after this change.. just as fast if not faster than netscape.
Ian
I almost forgot the -c1 option! That's one of the best options actually... it turns on 32-bit data-transfers... provides quite a nice performance increase.
Ian
Can all be changed with hdparm. I use /dev/hda
hdparm -W1 -m16 -u1 -c1 -k1 -d1
on start up.
That is...
-W1 enable the write caching feature
-m16 allow 16 blocks per i/o interrupt
-u1 IRQ unmasking.. HUGE proformance increase. If you notice everything seems to stop when your doing a lot of I/O be sure to turn this on!
-k1 keep settings.
-d1 enable DMA
From my simple benchmarks/experience these seem to be fastest settings for my IBM DeskStar 14gb HD. Your mileage may vary.
Ian
Yes, the kernel needs to be recompiled.. to any kernel hackers out there.. is there a /proc interface to HZ?
Ian
That's a very intriguing design. I would imagine it would make Linux respond WAY faster. It would certainly help in the desktop end, and it appears the extremely high-end also. I look forward to trying this out in 2.5 (Let's hope it makes it in...)
Recently, I was writing an application in Java that used small Thread.sleep(). It was appearing to sleep _way_ too long though. Thread.sleep(0,1) (one nanosecond) would sleep the same as Thread.sleep(10) (10 milliseconds). I began to think of why this might be.. and then it hit me.. it's the context switching. So I looked around and found some sites talking about real-time audio and changing the context switching speed.
/usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/param.h file to #define HZ 1000 rather than #define HZ 100 everything GUI was _much_ _much_ faster. The GIMP seems to load in literally 1/5 the time.
I found if you change the
Why don't distribuations like Ximian suggest this change? With heavily multi-threaded gui applications it seems to me it's an absolute must. Everything seems to run better to me with the faster context switching. (well, except for remote X, with the fast switching it seems to update a lot faster, and thus clog the connection and make it seem slow).
Anyone know why this is not more heavily publicized?
Ian
Kuro5hin is an OSDN partner. (I believe nearly totally funded by OSDN) OSDN is owned by VA Linux. Andover is owned by VA Linux. They are essentially owned by the same parent company. Even though kuro5hin isn't really owned by VA Linux, it is probably could be financially controlled if VA Linux so wished.
Uh... +1 funny?... about as much as a goatse.cx link. Because if you look in the back of the picture.. oh yeah.. that's about a 100x100 pixel picture of dude's butt. Gross. Do not click.
When I followed the links given by CmdrTaco and the press release was on the site itself.. I almost laughed and thought never trust a press release on a satire site.. so I went looking on the net to see if it was true or not.. sure enough I found this on official peabody site. Way to go daily show :)
Ian
I HATE intersitals. These are about the only form of advertising that annoys me enough to write webmasters. One of my favorite weather sites (www.intellicast.com) started using intersitals. I wrote them ranting about how much I hated them, how annoying your customers isn't a good way to sell things, and just for good measure ranted a bit on how I didn't like their new directory structure. Interestingly, about a month later I a boiler plate reply, "We're sorry we've annoyed you.. we just want to make money to supply you with great content, blah blah" but the cool thing was it got forwarded to about 7 different people! I don't think the webmasters like uglifying their sites like this. The decisions are almost surely coming from managers. When you find an intersital, send off an email to the webmaster, you might just help them get their site un-uglified.
Ian
If you don't want to have to pay for the download find someone else that has the CD and copy it. Then put that copy on the internet. The GPL does protect your right to do that.
Ian
I've seen several posts already saying the number of violent crimes committed by youth has dropped. Oh yay us. Let's give kids more violent games. Well.. yes the pure numbers show that. However, there is also a lot less kids than then there were. So while the rates go up.. the numbers are going down.
Aparently XMCD and a few other GPL clients have licenses to use the CDDB. Why not just use their license and call grip a derivitive of XMCD?
Look at
http://whoisclaireswire.terrashare.com/> this link
Out of curiousity... regarding your sig.. do you have a copy of the article associated with it? It seems the onion no longer has it archived and I want to read that story!
RE: your sig... it was you who said that wasn't it? HA! And you thought your fooled people posting as an AC.
The random slashdot story generator! It's too funny. Complete with bad grammar!l
plain text for those of you afraid of a goatse.cx link..
http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.htm
I know NASA's new motto.. but come on.. hiring freshmen and using coke cans? Couldn't they at least use a tang can for nostalogia? ;)
Check out this link to see how this movie is also going to involve RSA's secureID cards. This movie should rock. Good actors, good technology :)
Ian
Hahaha.... that reminds of when Windows 2000s starts up it says. "Built on NT Technology" Well... NT means New Technology so if you break down the acronymns built on "New Technology Technology" kinda humorous.