Recently Digg.com has been under a lot of heat. This is mostly due to their lack of speed to fix issues with their site. Whether it be for a picture section or their comment system. Today, I read that digg's brand new comment system doesn't work for Opera users and crashes their browsers. . . uhh WHAT!?
A web developer for the site said:
"But, I wanted to chime in and let you know why Opera wasn't tested. As we're planning releases and testing we have to base some decisions on numbers. Unfortunately, Opera users account for such a small number (less than 1%) of visits to Digg, it's not a browser we can pro actively test on."
Wow, talk about a cop out. 1% of the digg visits must amass to about 5000 to 25,000 users. It's not like Opera is so no name browser. Every web developer tests with Firefox, IE6,7, and Opera. That is the BARE minimum.
I really do hope that a year from now we look at their traffic stats and see that Digg lost 1/4th of its traffic due to their lack of competence. Everything they do is over complicated since they became "big". This applies to EVERY single comment system iteration. I refer to this as the "Digg way".
Defined as being overly complicated to be unique or an attempt to impress others with their "skillz".
The comment system they just put into effect is just as flawed as the rest. They overcomplicated it and screwed it all up once again. During a page load, it looks like the root threads load first, then the replies to those threads load in waves. So if you are viewing a comment midway down the page. . .expect to lose your spot because data is still loading in waves and it will screw up your positioning.
Neat huh?
0 commentsI am fairly new to web hosting. I have been to a few different places to find a reliable host and finally found ServInt. Then lately I started to notice how slow the pages would render. My pages aren't super MySQL intensive or bandwidth intensive so it made no sense to me. Then I noticed, it was awstats!
Those of you who have web hosting and often wonder why your box has load averages close to 10 or mid 10s, look no further. Your culprit could very well be awstats. The bigger the log files, the more time it takes for awstats to update. Avoid updating site stats during the day.
My recommendation is to login to WHM and go to "Statistics Software Configuration" and modify the frequency and times. Even if it says "The server currently is able to keep up with your statistics processing schedule.", ignore that and change it anyway. I set mine to every 24hrs to run from 1am to 6am ONLY. If you don't know what WHM is or cpanel, then contact your admin and ask when the site stats update.
Baseball season is almost in full bloom. I say almost because the NHL and NBA playoffs are still in full swing. But once those are over, its nothing but baseball till September. Sounds great right? To make it even better, I have created a fantasy baseball trade analyzer.
I evaluate each player's worth compared to other players in the same position. A whole bunch of other stuff too, but I can't tell you exactly how its all done. Let's just say you need to have at least passed 3rd grade math to understand it all. heh.
I call this fantasy trade analyzer 1.0 because it has most of the features I wanted to include. I have a few other things planned for it to make it even better. Stay tuned!
About a year ago I recommended people to buy cables to output the audio and sound from their PC to their television. This is still a viable option, but Popcorn Hour is now THE option. It is a multimedia HD/SD streaming device used to play video files on your television. Popcorn Hour absolutely destroys anything else out there, but it takes some getting used to.
Popcorn Hour (PCH) is for the type of person who can easily adapt to a new device that doesn't provide much help documentation. Basically, its for geeks. I bought it because the word was that it can play basically every format you could think of: x264, wmv, dvd iso, etc etc at only $180. It smoothly plays 1080p x264 files with dolby digital audio or DTS. A dream come true for most of us. However, the device cannot decode these audio formats, so a receiver is a MUST have to get full audio support.
In order to get smooth 1080p playback streaming over the network, myiHome needs to be installed. The reason is that a windows share (Samba) is slower going to the device. You can read the Popcorn Hour Wiki to learn more about this.
The last thing I'll say about the device is that it was built cheesy. The remote feels cheesy and so does the device. The interface isn't that great either and reminds me of XBMC in its earlier days. But guess what? None of that matters since it works and the firmware is constantly updated every month. Look no further for the do it all device.
I recently purchased Intel's new Q9450 and wow does it scream. Those of you who own one should overclock it to its potential. I am currently running it at 3.5ghz with the FSB at 440. Vcore is at 1.4 and northbridge is at 1.55. You may have better luck than me nad reach 3.6, so try it out. If you aren't sure how to go about doing it, then head on over to Anandtech's forums for more help.
I used to have an AMD X2, 2.9 ghz, with DDR memory, and an 8800 GT. I figured Crysis would play decent since the graphics card is fairly new and it was dual core. Boy was I wrong. Couldn't play it on High, and medium would lag at times and just looked crappy at 1280 res.
Now I upgrade to Quad core, DDR2, and a new mobo using the same graphics card and can play it on Very High. It is remarkable how much of a difference it makes with this CPU. This game HAS to be played on at least High to really appreciate how great it looks. Though the game got lame killing flying aliens.
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