fyhuang
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At first glance I thought this was just some news article/obscure site or another
.Anyways, a few suggestions - Wikipedia + Google already solve all my information needs, as Google is a fairly intelligent search engine and Wikipedia is a fairly complete encyclopedia.
About your site though, I would use a pre-built wiki instead of your apparently custom-designed system, because of the security/feature/etc. benefits. If you want the experience, a live/planned for production site isn't the place to do it (I think at least... you'll end up scrapping it and using the wiki anyways
). For some sites (i.e. ones that are unique and don't have much in the way of prebuilt software) a custom-made system is good, but for yours I would use a wiki.If you're looking to create a site, try to look for topics that haven't been covered by existing sites. For example, your site delivers information? Search engines and Wikipedia, as I mentioned. Your site delivers an online directory of sorts? Dmoz. I've, for example heard many ideas for a gaming site (by my naive IM contacts), all of which include the phrase "like GameSpot". Not a single one has succeeded yet.
It's not that I'm trying to be critical or anything! I'm just tired or something. Just the two suggestions - use Wiki software, specialize your topic.
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[edit] Urgh, just got off GD.net and forgot that <a> tags don't work here.
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Lorem Ipsum is used as filler text to draw people's attention away from the content, but to the design.
As for your website, I think if you increased the brightness, it would look better. Maybe a little more saturation increase too. Otherwise, it seems to be a very nice design.
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Tell your school that they really, really need to code their website better. If that's the only thing that's preventing him from using Firefox than it's probably better to recode your school's website, as it would benefit many other FFX users too.
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It should be possble if you have a boot disk reformatter. It's not always possible in Windows because sometimes system files are installed to the back of the partition. And unlike Linux, which allows more than one program to use a file at a time (i.e. if one program has a file open, another can still delete/move/rename it - at least I think this is what happens, as I never get any "this file is in use" messages when I try to delete something), Windows has file-locking (IIRC that's what it's called), so those files cannot be moved while Windows is running.
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Anything is possible, of course
.If you have 20 GB free space (on your DISK, not the partition!), you can create a new partition without messing with the exising one. If you have 20 GB free space on the PARTITION, I wouldn't try it. Defragmenting (especially with Windows' defragmenter) doesn't usually move all the data to the front, so you may still have some data loss. Besides, it costs money to do semi-correctly.
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If you have free space, formatting isn't dangerous (just make sure you have backed up EVERYTHING!). If you have no free space, resizing a partition is dangerous! Especially NTFS partitions, which I am fairly sure you use! Even commercial software can fail when resizing NTFS partitions!
No, you cannot "just delete" Windows files off the drive, there's many hidden files, boot files, boot sector stuff, etc. that you can't delete. It may work for a while, but you may see strange glitches/whatever relating to an unclean uninstall. Reformatting, I think, is the only way to do it cleanly.
I think what you CAN do... delete the unimportant files first (especially big ones that don't matter much, i.e. Knoppix ISOs or whatnot), then compress them. Try using a WinZip-spanned-ZIPfile for this - burn a couple of CDs with them, format your second hard disk, create an FAT32 partition on it, then copy everything back from the CDs.
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Wow. What a great way to keep track of browser statistics. Cheers!
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Urgh. More stupid Windows things. Linux does not use 'file locking' so this problem is totally nonexistent
.Good work anyhow though!
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Buy ANYTHING but an HP. Or possibly a Dell. Anything else is fine by me.
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Also, (not sure if this is in FFX, I use Mozilla), if you open up all your sites in different tabs, you can use the 'bookmark this group of tabs' option (in the Bookmarks menu). Next time you select that bookmark, your selected tabs will open.
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I think what Henning wants is how to describe the rendering system in his design document.
For now, you can say "just the default Torque rendering system". Or, you could go into a *little* more detail, depending on how much you customize it. If eventually you decide to rewrite the rendering system entirely you'll have to detail that.
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Ah ha. I have a friend with an HP laptop. The battery lasts about 10 minutes now (I'm sure I said this in another thread too). It could just be the battery maker that HP uses, cause I don't think HP makes their own batteries?
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I have one pet-peeve kind of thing - your banner text is actually an image
. If you could convert that to normal text (through the use of CSS or something?) I think it would be better. My reasoning? It keeps the same look-and-feel to all the text on the page. Some people have antialiased text (us X-windows users!) and others don't (IE!). So I like to keep all text as just that, text, in order to preserve the 'rendering integrity'.That's just a little obsession of mine though, otherwise the site looks very good. Cheers!
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Actually, I was referring to the problem that programs that require IE to run wouldn't actually be affected by your patch - they would continue to use IE. Only IE windows will be redirected to Firefox I think.
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No, with the 'Pro' edition for example you get some more apps (I don't think Powerpoint is included with 'basic', for example), and with 'Enterprise' you might get Access or stuff like that (not like anyone uses Access, we all know MySQL rules all
).However, like I mentioned earlier just buying Word and Excel (Office Basic) can easily cost you as much as Windows did (upwards of $200?). If you want Powerpoint, bring that up to $300 (or more!). Since I'm not rich, I use OO.o for all my presentations because I only have Office Basic.
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That's an interesting idea. I'm not sure if MS Office has this functionality (in the Enterprise edition if there is this feature, and the Enterprise edition costs more than my computer), and I'm fairly sure OO.o doesn't. However, I think this kind of program could be written without extensively effort/money. I might try it
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Welcome. I have an HP computer (that I don't use) as well, and even after a clean re-install of the operating system, it still crashes every three seconds. It doesn't have an AGP port. It's also very un-powerful in other respects (900 MHz Celeron!, 128 MB RAM), yet still has the 'ready for Windows XP' label on the side. I tried to install Windows XP, but then just went back to ME because it was so slow.
HP does, however, still make good printers. I'm satisfied with my HP printer. It's just that their computers are so crappily bad.
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Microsoft only got its massive market share because it was so lucky in the first place. The other company which IBM contacted to write an OS for its personal computer refused the deal.
if everyone on my mod team had MS OfficeAnd therein lies the problem. MS Office, and other MS apps, whether you like it or not are priced extravagantly high. Yet OSS software can still be more secure, more stable, and have a similar featureset, while being free and developed by teams of volunteers? I still don't see why things like Windows XP Pro cost over $300 because to me, they're not really worth that much. Linux distros come packaged with lots of basic software - the compiler, a word processor (most major distros include OO.o), a DECENT text editor, games, etc. etc. while Windows comes with? Solitaire and Notepad. And bunches of security flaws. Woohoo. I certainly think that was worth my $300.
By the way, if you haven't tried out OpenOffice 2.0 (beta) yet, I would highly recommend it. I think it's a very large step over OpenOffice 1.x (which I didn't like quite as much as MS Office), owing significantly to the fact that everything looks like it fits now. BTW, the UI has gotten so much better in this release, while I agree with you that in 1.x, the UI was crap. It was still the codebase from StarOffice, which IMHO wasn't quite good with UI.
While you might be used to MS Office's various commands, menu layout, etc., OO.o has similar menu layouts in most cases and more intuitive ones in other cases (to the n00b of course, for example Format->Page instead of File->Page Setup). Version 1.x didn't support autoshapes/that colored text stuff (WordArt was it?) and stuff IIRC but version 2.0 has made significant progress in importing/exporting Microsoft formats. I personally think hiding some of Word's more commonly-used features (i.e. WordArt) is better, because it stops abuse of some very widely-abused graphical features (*cough* gradients *cough* lens flare, and now *cough* WordArt).
Okay, enough of my OO.o rant. Try it out and see for yourself, I guess. If you still don't like it (and you can't figure out how to do something in less than 5 seconds by 1) reading the help file (not sure if documentation for version 2.0 is completed yet, as it's still in beta) or 2) asking a friend (like me!)), I can't persuade you any more (until I think of bigger and better arguments, that is).
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I personally think that persuading the person about the benefits of Firefox first is a good idea, instead of stealthily redirecting IE requests to Firefox
. Unless, of course you're first persuading them then forcing them 
.A small problem with your approach - IIRC IE uses the Microsoft MSHTML.dll engine (mentioned this somewhere?), and apps which 'use' IE (i.e. they use the MS rendering engine) will not be redirected. You could look into Transgaming's method, which is to add a Gecko plugin so all apps which use IE can use Mozilla's rendering engine. This is of course because IE is so hard to install on Windows emulators, but perhaps you can tweak this plugin to your benefit. I'm not sure how it'll affect IE itself, but...
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It may have corrupted the overlay settings... overlay is a fairly standard feature found on most modern cards, it modifies (i.e. brightness, etc.) the image when you're playing videos. It should be in the driver settings somewhere.
On a side note, forgive me for asking (everyone else seems to know what you're talking about), what new card did you install?
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I personally use:
1: ip addr
(as root), which can accept other parameters too (type in just 'ip' for a list).
I knew there was something like ifconfig too (it's called ipconfig in Windows IIRC), but I forgot its name (thanks Klaas!). Cheers!
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when Firefox and IE7 are the mainstream browsers.
Correction - when Firefox is the mainstream browser.
No, but seriously I find it difficult enough to write XHTML 1.0, let alone the (probably more strict) XHTML 1.1. I had such a tough time getting my really clean, really simple webpage to validate to XHTML 1.0 Transitional, I wouldn't think about using 1.0 Strict or 1.1 (the altitude-tech page is the page I'm referrring to).
And that was only the front page, I've been too scared to test the rest of the pages...
Good luck and have fun
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Hey, you could specialize in removing dirt, scratches, and freckles from photos!
[edit] Not sure if anyone got that. Or found it funny.
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Yes, but more often than not they're totally broken. Take, for example, one marquee I saw that scrolled a bunch of affiliate images. It was rather simple, something like this:
1: <marquee><img src="affiliate1.png" /><img src="affiliate2.png" /><!-- etc. --></marquee>
But it just completely failed to render correctly. It was supposed to take up the entire width of the screen, but it only did about half (half the time) and like 75% (the other half the time) and worked correctly 1% of the time. Not to mention, usually the top half of the images were cut off anyways.
If you need a marquee, write a JS script for it, write a Java applet for it, or just be satisfied with a more normal, more accessible web page
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Ah ha! I bet they just put in MySQL as a 'marketing buzzword' and the guys there don't know a thing about it. Sorry to hear it though
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