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General Software Discussion / Re: OH NO! Its the end of Windows 3.11!
« Last post by f0dder on July 12, 2008, 10:16 AM »About time 
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Microsoft's code signing is nothing short of a complete disgrace. I'll stick with the good ol' gpg sig with the release.It's a good idea, but probably not implemented/enforced in the best way possible... especially because it's not really attainable for hobbyist developers.-Ehtyar (July 12, 2008, 08:41 AM)
. Guess it might explain my behavior as well... yep, just tested, indeed it does - if I change zoom for one open DC tab and switch to another, first it renders (or shows cached render?) with the original zoom, then quickly re-renders to the new zoom level.
This site might come handy:That site might be interesting if you found some really nasty exploits for various browsers on various OS'es... :] (let's hope they sandbox, and sandbox properly).
http://browsershots.org/-fenixproductions (July 09, 2008, 02:16 PM)
I wonder if there is a tool to allow you to see how stuff looks on different platforms? I know there is a tool to see how your webpage looks at different resolutions, and even simulate loading through a dial-up connection, but is there a multi-platform simulation tool?For IE, I'm afraid you need multiple vmware guests with different IE versions... unless somebody knows a reliable magic trick to have multiple IE cooperate on one windows install. A single tool that would render using multiple engines could be immensely helpful, but I doubt it exists - besides, rendering is only part of the story, you also need DOM/javascript testing >_<-Edvard (July 09, 2008, 10:41 AM)
For me 256 (GIF) and 24-bit (PNG) colours palette might be big difference. And also: GIF files presents transparency only (takes one colour from palette) while PNG gives variable opacity with whole alpha channel.True, true - I was thinking in terms of "use on the web", though, since this thread is about browsers. For web use PNG alpha is troublesome, because older browsers don't support it properly. And PNG with more than 8bit colors take a lot of space, and (when talking photographs and the like) is usually better handled by JPEG.-fenixproductions (July 09, 2008, 07:09 AM)
Faster memory will cut a few seconds off this time, so we'd recommend rather than simply more or faster, try and aim for both.Ummm, no... faster harddrives or less preloading will cut off time, memory speed is entirely irrelevant there
although surprisingly the 8GB of memory takes 10 seconds longer on average than 4GB. This is due to the fact we previously showed the performance of four DIMMs to be slower than just two, even though there's more memory available.Sounds pretty unreasonable too - the bandwidth and latency of their 8gig system was slightly worse than the 4gig and 2gig systems, but we're still talking the ability to pump several gigabytes of data through per second... no way slightly worse latency/bandwidth by itself can explain 10 seconds slower loading time.
(oh, and as for Adobe not seeing the point of a 64ibt photoshop... the biggest reason for such a statement is probably a large, unwieldy and not very 64-bit-clean codebase, rather than actual "need" or "advantage" concerns).potato potatoNot really, no - to make the distinction clearer, what do you think a linux user would say if you asked him to open a DOS prompt?-Josh (July 09, 2008, 07:12 AM)
(and yes, the scenarios are comparable).or, from the dos command line, try typing "netsh winsock reset catalog" then restartThere's no DOS in the NT-based windows versions. "Shell", "Command Prompt", "cmd.exe", "Console Window"... but please, no "DOS". I know, I'm anal about this, and I don't even really know why - it just bothers me endlessly-Josh (July 09, 2008, 04:57 AM)
size of desk isn't so important -- have a clean and neat work area is.You need proper arm rest, though. I can't believe how many people's setups don't have proper arm rest-mouser (July 08, 2008, 11:16 PM)
png is fine, as long as it doesn't contain any transparent areas. IE6 has no problems displaying ones that are 100% opaque, and if you go for that option instead of .jpg, you can get a smaller file size with much better quality. And smaller file sizes make faster loading pages.PNG won't be smaller than JPEG for the image types JPEG is good at handling... GIF vs. PNG is another issue, imho there's usually not that big different between the two, but I prefer PNG.-app103 (July 09, 2008, 12:17 AM)
Carol: DING DING DING worked like a charm. Now I gotta print each of these 1770 emails and their attachments. I got connections to get that done...You have to get the stuff printed? Hit the client with a big cluehammer and tell her something about saving the rainforest.-Edvard (July 08, 2008, 04:48 PM)
So I disabled my Pagefile a few days ago when I found this thread, but when I bring up the Task Manager and look at the Performance tab, it shows that my pagefile is at about 50% used (999MB).No, it's because task manager uses imprecise wording
Is this because I haven't manually deleted Pagefile.sys?-Deozaan (July 08, 2008, 02:18 PM)
still took me a while to figure the cat out but I got thereDoh, it's so obvious that you're prone to missing it. Silly me-tomos (July 08, 2008, 11:52 AM)
i would have left it turned off but i had a bluescreen and then when the machine came back on skype had forgotten all the settings - so, maybe skype is crap and likes the pagefile. just making wild assumtions.Hmm, sounds weird - can't see how the two things should be related. The only thing a pagefile can help you with during a BSOD is getting a minidump, which you can use for diagnostics... does skype store config in the registry or ini/xml/whatever?-nudone (July 08, 2008, 09:00 AM)
