Whenever I find a new search engine, part of what I rate it on is how well it can find my homepage, and how easy it is to get my homepage listed.
As far as regular search engines go, it was much faster to get google to crawl my site and list it than anything run by, inktomi, altavista, or northernlight. I am very happy with google.
As far as directories go, Yahoo lists two of the 7 sites that I maintain. I have managed to get dmoz listings for 6 of the 7, two of which, i didn't submit myself.
This new directory only appears to have one of my sites, and at a URL that has been inactive for almost two years at this point. I'll have to see how easy it is to get stuff listed, but so far I am not impressed.
You can easily cut your response time down by holding the second button half way down until the color changes and then letting the button up. I got.16 in just a couple tries. The button event is registered on mouseup.
As a webmaster, I love dmoz. Dmoz is usually the easiest search engine to get to list you. After dmoz picks you up you are almost always covered by the other search engines quite quickly. Furthermore, because so many sites use dmoz's data, you suddenly have a couple hundred sites linking to you which shoots you up in the google rankings. Then because Yahoo now uses google rather than inktomi, you end up getting a lot of hits to your website just for a listing in dmoz.
Dmoz doesn't seem to work well when editors can't decide what category something should be in. My Ladder game isn't listed. I've submitted it to several categories with no luck. The Java Games category points to web games and the editors there won't accept it because it doesn't run in a web page. Submitting it to other categories like arcade game specific titles, has recieved no response. Oh well.
I have also applied to be an editor several times. but have been rejected. What helps to become an editor? I usually use a different email address for every category I apply for. Would it help to use the same account for every category? It asks about experience in the field. What helps here and what hurts? It asks for URLs. I assume three good URLs will help your chances. If there are any editors out there that could comment on this, I'd sure appreciate it.
I defenatly like 'defenetely' the best. We defenatly need to get more people using it.
(I guess most people do know how to spell that one. I was hoping more people had trouble with it and I wouldn't look so bad. I always use it and I can never spell it. But then again spelling was my worst subject in grade school. (Now I post to slashdot, I wonder if there is a correlation))
I think my trouble with 'definitely' stems from the root word. I always think it define - ately when I put them together. I think maybe I should be thinking de - finite -ly. It doesn't make as much logical sense, but at least I'd get the word right.
Search engines will answer your question.
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The proper way to spell a word is the way most people spell it. Language is governed by usage. If two spellings of a word are popular, both should probably be included in the dictionary. Your favorite search engine will tell you which spelling is more popular.
I use Google.
So most open source projects don't have many requirements. They are only an itch scratcher.
My requirements: Scratch here. If you want to scratch there, you will have to modify the source. If you want a full body massage, I can't help you.
This doesn't sound so much like a call to list requirements as a call to expand the requirements of your project. You will always benifit from listing requirements and following a UML style programming model, but if the project is small enough, a list in your head is just fine.
Now, making your project expandable, thats something else entirely.
Most open source projects are written with a very specific goal in mind. I'll bet that most people who write a basic text editor, do it as a programming exercise and so they have an editor with a specific feature. Most people who write a text editor don't realize that it is actually a hard problem until after they get started.
But why is writing a text editor a hard problem? It really should be just connecting a bunch of components. Do these components exist? Rather than write my own text editor, I write some libraries that other programmers should be able to use, such as my syntax highlighting package.
Rather than start your own project, I encourage everybody to write a blackbox library. The most successful, reusable, able to be modified OSS projects I've seen are libraries. Take a look at the GD image library for example. Its used all over the place. When a programmer wants to be able to save a png, they don't take apart Gimp to see how it is done, they use GD.
We won't get anywhere unless OSS programmers start writing better black boxes. Black boxes are easy to reuse. Large programs are hard to modif
At one point GCC was sued by Atari for trademark infringment over some of these games, so I'm not sure who actually owns the rights to them now. GCC no longer does games. We now make laser printers. As far as I know, GCC has no plans to do anything with the old games.
If you really want to know, let me know and I can ask the CEO about it all next time I see him.
If you are in the Boston area, don't forget that this Saturday is the last MIT Flea Market of the year.
If you haven't been to one, you are missing out. You can get great deals on computer and electronics junk. Last time I was there I bought all the cables I needed at the time and a really nice case for my laptop and spent less than $30 total. Some people like to hang around towards the end of the day when vendors reduce their prices or give stuff away to get rid of it.
I wil be there manning the booth for my company. We have a ton of old equipment to get rid of. If you see a stack of 150 mac classics, stop by and say 'hi'!
Mozilla is still not ready. I download a nightly build at least once a week. My advice: Don't download mozilla unless you are willing to find bugs and report them.
The biggest bug in mozilla for linux right now is its inability to start unless it has write access to the directory that it is installed in. (
Bug 41057) This kept me from actually using the nightly builds for the past several weeks because I couldn't get them to start.
If anybody else is using mozilla, can you go and confirm this security bug for me? I hate being the only one who has looked at it.
keyboard layouts in x can mess it up. I have a dvorak layout that nicely scrambles the scrambled signal. None of the cue cat program that I have found for linux check xmodmap and correct for your keyboard layout.
I most often see things I would like to moderate like this in older articles. It seems that moderators never hang out in anything that is no longer near the top of the front page. Here is my analysis of why it is happening and what can be done about it:
The first problem I see is that the first posts to an article are the most likely to be modded up. Moderators tend
to hang around the couple most recently posted stories.
Not everybody refreshes Slashdot every two hours. The people that do, are the ones that agree most with the
stereotypical slashdot agenda.
Insightful posts take time. It could easily take an hour to *read the article*, do some other research, and post
some meaningful commentary. Those who post fast seem more likely to spout out their gut feelings.
To sum up: The people who post first are likely to be avid slashdot readers and more zealotous. Posts that are
made soon after the article goes up are not as likely to be based on facts.
On hot trigger issues such as this one, I have read comments soon, then comments later and been pleasantly
suprised by a couple better posts that get moderated later. Often on looking further, I notice that there are
several more that I would have modded higher than the ones that are modded higher.
As you can see from the graphs, I think there are a lot of good comments posted
later that don't get moderated, while a lot of earlier comments that might not be quite so good, do.
I suggest the golden moderation system.
You get 5 moderator points.
2 of the are gold.
2 of them are silver.
1 of them is bronze.
gold points can be used on any post at any time. Silver points can be used on posts attached to articles that are
more than 2 hours old. Bronze points can be used on posts attached to stories that are more than 1 day old.
A large user base will increase the noise. There is almost nothing you can do about that. Slashdot's moderation system does a good job of filtering the signal from the noise though. When I browse with a threshold of 3, I rarely see any noise. The noise I see being the karma whores.
Maybe your game needs a lot of raw speed, and hardware specific stuff to run, but I doubt that your map builder does. Why not write some of these helper apps in Java?
One of Java's biggest strengths is its cross platform GUI ability. No need to deal with MFC and GTK. Just deal with AWT (or if you are willing to ditch the mac, SWING)
When you combine java jar files with some simple VBS scripts or some bash shell scripts, you can even make installation pretty seamless nowdays.
Real geeks get rare earth magnets for their fridge. I bought some of the smaller ones from ebay a bit ago. They rock. You can stick a half an inch thick stack of menus to the fridge with no problems. CDs, magazines, power tools, small furry animals, whatever, rare earth magnets hold them.:-)
Mozilla is not perfectly stable yet, but its getting there. Right now the nightly builds (linux) crash on me after about 2 hours of use.
Compare this to a few months ago (Every 5 minutes) and it is a vast improvement. I have downloaded other netscape releases less stable than this. If you can't live with restarting your web browser several times a day now though, wait a few months before trying mozilla out.
There have been some significant bug fixes recently. The find on page feature now works when the page has frames, meaning I can now use mozilla to browse the javadocs. Also textareas have gotten a lot more useable and stable recently.
Most of the bugs that I am finding in the nightly builds are now regressions that are usually fixed within a day, so if something major isn't working in the build you download, try again in a couple days.
I got an email that said the EFF is having fundraising cocktails in downtown Boston this evening to celebrate. 5:30 at the Harvard Club. $35 minimum requested donation. I'm going.
You wouldn't think anybody would be dumb enough to set plain.html files with a php mime type would you?
Thanks for pointing it out, I don't host my own site, so I wasn't the one that set up apache like that, but I was able to add.htaccess files to each diretory to reset the mime type for html correctly.
Eudora told me today that a new version was available so I upgraded.
The first email I sent was a love letter. As I was typing it there was this little icon of an ice cube in the corner. Eudora was telling my that my love life is frigid. (Thanks Eudora)
The only way to spice up my love life was to add a bit of naughtness. I guess the software knows whats its doing.:-)
Does anybody else find it ironic that "Eudora" gets underlined in red by the spell checker in Eudora?
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October stats for a site I manage: 1436 Googlebot/2.1 (+http://googlebot.com/bot.html) 1199 Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.htm 823 Mercator-1.0 671 Scooter/2.0 G.R.A.B. V1.1.0 570 Gulliver/1.3 548 Ask Jeeves)" 517 CrawlerBoy Pinpoint.com
As far as regular search engines go, it was much faster to get google to crawl my site and list it than anything run by, inktomi, altavista, or northernlight. I am very happy with google.
As far as directories go, Yahoo lists two of the 7 sites that I maintain. I have managed to get dmoz listings for 6 of the 7, two of which, i didn't submit myself.
This new directory only appears to have one of my sites, and at a URL that has been inactive for almost two years at this point. I'll have to see how easy it is to get stuff listed, but so far I am not impressed.
You can easily cut your response time down by holding the second button half way down until the color changes and then letting the button up. I got .16 in just a couple tries. The button event is registered on mouseup.
Dmoz doesn't seem to work well when editors can't decide what category something should be in. My Ladder game isn't listed. I've submitted it to several categories with no luck. The Java Games category points to web games and the editors there won't accept it because it doesn't run in a web page. Submitting it to other categories like arcade game specific titles, has recieved no response. Oh well.
I have also applied to be an editor several times. but have been rejected. What helps to become an editor? I usually use a different email address for every category I apply for. Would it help to use the same account for every category? It asks about experience in the field. What helps here and what hurts? It asks for URLs. I assume three good URLs will help your chances. If there are any editors out there that could comment on this, I'd sure appreciate it.
from google:
definitely - 2,590,000 pages
definately - 238,000 pages
definetly - 45,900 pages
definitly - 41,400 pages
definatly - 33,300 pages
definetely - 18,700 pages
defenitely - 3,870 pages
defenitly - 1,850 pages
defenetly - 1,210 pages
defenately - 628 pages
defenatly - 536 pages
defenetely - 181 pages
I defenatly like 'defenetely' the best. We defenatly need to get more people using it.
(I guess most people do know how to spell that one. I was hoping more people had trouble with it and I wouldn't look so bad. I always use it and I can never spell it. But then again spelling was my worst subject in grade school. (Now I post to slashdot, I wonder if there is a correlation))
I think my trouble with 'definitely' stems from the root word. I always think it define - ately when I put them together. I think maybe I should be thinking de - finite -ly. It doesn't make as much logical sense, but at least I'd get the word right.
I use Google.
email - 55,000,000 pages.
e-mail - 3,560,000 pages.
My requirements: Scratch here. If you want to scratch there, you will have to modify the source. If you want a full body massage, I can't help you.
This doesn't sound so much like a call to list requirements as a call to expand the requirements of your project. You will always benifit from listing requirements and following a UML style programming model, but if the project is small enough, a list in your head is just fine.
Now, making your project expandable, thats something else entirely.
Most open source projects are written with a very specific goal in mind. I'll bet that most people who write a basic text editor, do it as a programming exercise and so they have an editor with a specific feature. Most people who write a text editor don't realize that it is actually a hard problem until after they get started.
But why is writing a text editor a hard problem? It really should be just connecting a bunch of components. Do these components exist? Rather than write my own text editor, I write some libraries that other programmers should be able to use, such as my syntax highlighting package. Rather than start your own project, I encourage everybody to write a blackbox library. The most successful, reusable, able to be modified OSS projects I've seen are libraries. Take a look at the GD image library for example. Its used all over the place. When a programmer wants to be able to save a png, they don't take apart Gimp to see how it is done, they use GD.
We won't get anywhere unless OSS programmers start writing better black boxes. Black boxes are easy to reuse. Large programs are hard to modif
At one point GCC was sued by Atari for trademark infringment over some of these games, so I'm not sure who actually owns the rights to them now. GCC no longer does games. We now make laser printers. As far as I know, GCC has no plans to do anything with the old games.
If you really want to know, let me know and I can ask the CEO about it all next time I see him.
Mary used cryptography, she kept the key in escrow. Everything that Mary said, the feds were sure to know.
I think it flows a bit better....
If you haven't been to one, you are missing out. You can get great deals on computer and electronics junk. Last time I was there I bought all the cables I needed at the time and a really nice case for my laptop and spent less than $30 total. Some people like to hang around towards the end of the day when vendors reduce their prices or give stuff away to get rid of it.
I wil be there manning the booth for my company. We have a ton of old equipment to get rid of. If you see a stack of 150 mac classics, stop by and say 'hi'!
As I stated in my other post, the segfault at startup is due to bug 41057 - Mozilla should not need write access to the binary directory. The current work around is to run mozilla once as root before running it as a user. That way it will at least create the files it needs to start up.
The biggest bug in mozilla for linux right now is its inability to start unless it has write access to the directory that it is installed in. ( Bug 41057) This kept me from actually using the nightly builds for the past several weeks because I couldn't get them to start.
If anybody else is using mozilla, can you go and confirm this security bug for me? I hate being the only one who has looked at it.
keyboard layouts in x can mess it up. I have a dvorak layout that nicely scrambles the scrambled signal. None of the cue cat program that I have found for linux check xmodmap and correct for your keyboard layout.
The first problem I see is that the first posts to an article are the most likely to be modded up. Moderators tend to hang around the couple most recently posted stories.
Not everybody refreshes Slashdot every two hours. The people that do, are the ones that agree most with the stereotypical slashdot agenda.
Insightful posts take time. It could easily take an hour to *read the article*, do some other research, and post some meaningful commentary. Those who post fast seem more likely to spout out their gut feelings.
To sum up: The people who post first are likely to be avid slashdot readers and more zealotous. Posts that are made soon after the article goes up are not as likely to be based on facts.
On hot trigger issues such as this one, I have read comments soon, then comments later and been pleasantly suprised by a couple better posts that get moderated later. Often on looking further, I notice that there are several more that I would have modded higher than the ones that are modded higher.
Let me try to illustrate this with a graph:
PostQualityv sTime:
|high
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| +---+
| +++--+
|+-+ +---+
|++ +---+
|++ +---------------
|++
|+-+
|++
|++
|
|low
+-----------------------------------------
time-- ->
Sumofmoderationdone ;+-----+
|more +-------------------------
| 
|+--+
|++
|+
|++
|+
|+
|+
|+
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+-----------------------------------------
time--->
As you can see from the graphs, I think there are a lot of good comments posted later that don't get moderated, while a lot of earlier comments that might not be quite so good, do.
I suggest the golden moderation system.
You get 5 moderator points.
2 of the are gold.
2 of them are silver.
1 of them is bronze.
gold points can be used on any post at any time. Silver points can be used on posts attached to articles that are more than 2 hours old. Bronze points can be used on posts attached to stories that are more than 1 day old.
I think this would really do wonders for Slashdo
A large user base will increase the noise. There is almost nothing you can do about that. Slashdot's moderation system does a good job of filtering the signal from the noise though. When I browse with a threshold of 3, I rarely see any noise. The noise I see being the karma whores.
One of Java's biggest strengths is its cross platform GUI ability. No need to deal with MFC and GTK. Just deal with AWT (or if you are willing to ditch the mac, SWING)
When you combine java jar files with some simple VBS scripts or some bash shell scripts, you can even make installation pretty seamless nowdays.
mp3.com hired a lobbyist to help push this bill through. Three was a blurb about the guy on NECN the other night.
Just out of curiousity, how many cuecats can you chain together before they draw so much power they short out important pieces of your motherboard?
Compare this to a few months ago (Every 5 minutes) and it is a vast improvement. I have downloaded other netscape releases less stable than this. If you can't live with restarting your web browser several times a day now though, wait a few months before trying mozilla out.
There have been some significant bug fixes recently. The find on page feature now works when the page has frames, meaning I can now use mozilla to browse the javadocs. Also textareas have gotten a lot more useable and stable recently.
Most of the bugs that I am finding in the nightly builds are now regressions that are usually fixed within a day, so if something major isn't working in the build you download, try again in a couple days.
I got an email that said the EFF is having fundraising cocktails in downtown Boston this evening to celebrate. 5:30 at the Harvard Club. $35 minimum requested donation. I'm going.
Thanks for pointing it out, I don't host my own site, so I wasn't the one that set up apache like that, but I was able to add .htaccess files to each diretory to reset the mime type for html correctly.
The first email I sent was a love letter. As I was typing it there was this little icon of an ice cube in the corner. Eudora was telling my that my love life is frigid. (Thanks Eudora)
The only way to spice up my love life was to add a bit of naughtness. I guess the software knows whats its doing. :-)
Does anybody else find it ironic that "Eudora" gets underlined in red by the spell checker in Eudora?