(I've realised about 400 other people answered this while I was typing up a reply, but one more won't hurt)
What do you mean about thumbnailing the pictures? Isn't there only one picture?
I think he means that one picture near the bottom of the page using width="225", maybe there's other ones. The main reason you'd want to use proper thumbnails for things like that is it saves bandwidth. Also most browsers have crap resizing algorithms optimised for speed. Properly done thumbnails look nicer.
What should I do instead of using font tags?
Depends how you're using them. You can replace <font size=> with <small> and <big> (but read the next point) and font face tags with <span>/<div>/<p> using class="" and a bit of CSS.
What is semantic markup?
Basically just saying what you mean in the HTML, instead of saying what it should look like. For example you've got a <font size="-2"> for your keywords thing, which could be done as <p class="keywords"> (or "tags", as web2.0 is calling them these days) and putting p.keywords {font-size:x-small} in the CSS. As a side note, I've seen google's search results are displaying more details than they used to do - as far as I can tell they do pay attention to class names in some places.
If you want an example of semantic markup, have a look at the completely-overdone html in this post.
I thought the old fashioned fonts were more reflective of my 19th century personality, but maybe I'll experiment with something else.
The looks are a matter of opinion more than anything. I don't mind serif fonts but I think your layout could use more separation; try adding background colours on things like the replies (div.blogComment) to break it up a bit.
I always wonder why there's some poor cheater who comes up with this "I was banned but I didn't cheat" excuse, because it doesn't hold up at all when others know how VAC works.
Now say someone got their hands on one of these files... then linked to it using an <img> tag on... say... a valve-related forum. Hmm.
Here's a few pulled-from-my-ass tests for the real world, as opposed to their real-world tests for an ad-revenue-driven world.
Fill the disk with data, then write random bytes to random sectors of the disk (using a repeatable PRNG). See what percentage of the filesystem is still recoverable afterwards, and how long it takes to do a fsck on it.
Count the number of times each FS's developers have murdered someone (hey, it's no less meaningless than measuring a FPS timedemo in terms of seconds per filesystem).
AMD is in a bad place right now. They're being squeezed on the x86 side by Intel with better performance/watt CPUs, and the only thing keeping both of them from being destroyed overnight is the fact Microsoft's desktop OS doesn't run on ARM.
And just to rub it in, the "nv" driver outperforms the nvidia blob in 2D. You'd expect an AGP card to at least be able to handle something like scrolling terminal text in a bitmap font...
I'm left handed but always used right-handed mice. Lately I've realised how bad this layout actually is; the left hand doesn't move from the left of the keyboard, while the right hand is constantly reaching between the keyboard and mouse, over the arrow keys and (relatively useless) numpad. That's a lot of needless full-arm movement and it does start to hurt after a while. I'm not sure whether the best solution is to get a new keyboard without the numpad, or get a mouse I can use left-handed (current one is one of those right-handed ones with too many buttons), but then I'd have to relearn everything.
I've also noticed I have a bad habit of using only the right shift key, left ctrl, etc...
Reiser4 is still being maintained, by one ex-Namesys person IIRC. The main problem is the Linux kernel devs - they were too busy trying to find reasons to keep it out of the kernel (I can agree with their complaints about code formatting, but after that they descend deep into BS-land) to actually improve it. From the outside it sounds a lot like the story about the RSDL scheduler - completely snubbed because it stepped on the toes of one kernel dev and his pet project.
Unless you're dealing with backward firmware/BIOS code that only understands FAT, you should be using UDF. Vista supports it, OS X supports it, Linux supports it, and everything back to win98 has readonly support - but you can get third-party drivers just like for ext2.
If you're using a filesystem with copy-on-write (btrfs, zfs, other flashy new stuff), then the merge part will be way faster on the hard disk. If those sound too scary and unstable, ext4 in 2.6.28 has the delayed-alloc thing which makes it basically behave like a tmpfs anyway until something tells the kernel to sync. Not that it'd make any difference on my desktop - I'm stuck with a pentium 4.
Nothing wrong with living in the past. I'm still living in 2007 with my 4GB laptop and I've never felt like I was short on free space. But then I don't really use that laptop for HD video editing or the like...
This is obstruction of justice for the RIAA's definition of "justice". Which just so happens to be the definition shared by far too many traffic police.
It'd be nice if game makers actually paid attention to realistic sound effects, instead of just using that 800W gaming machine for rendering photorealistic raindrops with accurate physics over a canned loop of rain noises. The hardware to do decent 3D sound was there a decade ago, but Creative bought everyone out and left the end user with their shitty reverb effects.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe not, but the RIAA does exactly the same harassment to these people - and then fucking steals all their money.
Displaying pictures of these shitheads is letting them off lightly.
(I've realised about 400 other people answered this while I was typing up a reply, but one more won't hurt)
I think he means that one picture near the bottom of the page using width="225", maybe there's other ones. The main reason you'd want to use proper thumbnails for things like that is it saves bandwidth. Also most browsers have crap resizing algorithms optimised for speed. Properly done thumbnails look nicer.
Depends how you're using them. You can replace <font size=> with <small> and <big> (but read the next point) and font face tags with <span>/<div>/<p> using class="" and a bit of CSS.
Basically just saying what you mean in the HTML, instead of saying what it should look like. For example you've got a <font size="-2"> for your keywords thing, which could be done as <p class="keywords"> (or "tags", as web2.0 is calling them these days) and putting p.keywords {font-size:x-small} in the CSS. As a side note, I've seen google's search results are displaying more details than they used to do - as far as I can tell they do pay attention to class names in some places.
If you want an example of semantic markup, have a look at the completely-overdone html in this post.
The looks are a matter of opinion more than anything. I don't mind serif fonts but I think your layout could use more separation; try adding background colours on things like the replies (div.blogComment) to break it up a bit.
I always wonder why there's some poor cheater who comes up with this "I was banned but I didn't cheat" excuse, because it doesn't hold up at all when others know how VAC works.
Now say someone got their hands on one of these files... then linked to it using an <img> tag on... say... a valve-related forum.
Hmm.
Firewall off ssh completely and require a VPN connection first
Just another layer of obscurity.
Here's a few pulled-from-my-ass tests for the real world, as opposed to their real-world tests for an ad-revenue-driven world.
AMD is in a bad place right now. They're being squeezed on the x86 side by Intel with better performance/watt CPUs, and the only thing keeping both of them from being destroyed overnight is the fact Microsoft's desktop OS doesn't run on ARM.
It was probably modded troll because you posted a spam-protected email in plain text without thinking.
It makes the statement that they they don't care about streamlining.
To me, it's making the statement that they take MS Office compatibility seriously
Do the rent-a-cops follow you back to your home and mess with your computer after you've paid for the game?
And just to rub it in, the "nv" driver outperforms the nvidia blob in 2D. You'd expect an AGP card to at least be able to handle something like scrolling terminal text in a bitmap font...
I'm left handed but always used right-handed mice. Lately I've realised how bad this layout actually is; the left hand doesn't move from the left of the keyboard, while the right hand is constantly reaching between the keyboard and mouse, over the arrow keys and (relatively useless) numpad. That's a lot of needless full-arm movement and it does start to hurt after a while.
I'm not sure whether the best solution is to get a new keyboard without the numpad, or get a mouse I can use left-handed (current one is one of those right-handed ones with too many buttons), but then I'd have to relearn everything.
I've also noticed I have a bad habit of using only the right shift key, left ctrl, etc...
Who do you have to defend yourself against that you need such a large military budget?
The people.
Reiser4 is still being maintained, by one ex-Namesys person IIRC.
The main problem is the Linux kernel devs - they were too busy trying to find reasons to keep it out of the kernel (I can agree with their complaints about code formatting, but after that they descend deep into BS-land) to actually improve it. From the outside it sounds a lot like the story about the RSDL scheduler - completely snubbed because it stepped on the toes of one kernel dev and his pet project.
Unless you're dealing with backward firmware/BIOS code that only understands FAT, you should be using UDF. Vista supports it, OS X supports it, Linux supports it, and everything back to win98 has readonly support - but you can get third-party drivers just like for ext2.
Who still believes any of the stuff they're writing?
I don't, but I read it anyway to laugh at the hilariously inaccurate articles - it makes Slashdot look professionally edited in comparison
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Neat trick I found out the other day. Slashdot actually lets you use HTML entities.
If you're using a filesystem with copy-on-write (btrfs, zfs, other flashy new stuff), then the merge part will be way faster on the hard disk. If those sound too scary and unstable, ext4 in 2.6.28 has the delayed-alloc thing which makes it basically behave like a tmpfs anyway until something tells the kernel to sync.
Not that it'd make any difference on my desktop - I'm stuck with a pentium 4.
Nothing wrong with living in the past. I'm still living in 2007 with my 4GB laptop and I've never felt like I was short on free space. But then I don't really use that laptop for HD video editing or the like...
This is obstruction of justice for the RIAA's definition of "justice". Which just so happens to be the definition shared by far too many traffic police.
not our problem
What a shining example you set.
It'd be nice if game makers actually paid attention to realistic sound effects, instead of just using that 800W gaming machine for rendering photorealistic raindrops with accurate physics over a canned loop of rain noises.
The hardware to do decent 3D sound was there a decade ago, but Creative bought everyone out and left the end user with their shitty reverb effects.
As for the "stuff that spills out"... just repeat the same for articles posted by timothy.
That'll be another $45, please.
That is old-school security - the admins probably still think it's called ARPAnet.
It might be 6cents/kWh for you, but it's £0.12/kWh here.
How else do you think they keep the planet balanced on that turtle!?