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I use HTTP pipelining. Combine that with multiparting binary files from servers (especially against load balanced CDNs like akamai) and you get some fast page loads. Fasterfox is probably #4 on my favorite extensions list for this behavior.

I've seen this bug happen when I was playing with LiteStep. There's a key in the registry that is responsible for launching explorer.exe. If that variable is missing, the computer will do nothing, and because explorer.exe is responsible for loading all of your programs that run at startup (with the exception of services and boot actions) nothing else on the computer will start automatically. You can find this key in the registry here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. It's called Shell it's of type String (REG_SZ) and it's default value is Explorer.exe. Note that at this stage, you can always bring up the task manager with CTRL-SHIFT-ESC, click File->Run and run explorer.exe that way.

I remember Duke Nukem 3D...I used to spend countless hours playing that game, trying to annihilate everything on every level in the shortest time possible. My friend Rich and I used to spend entire class periods in high school playing this in our CAD class

No, just smarter than the smoker kids.

You can have dynamic favicons too...a trick I use on my site is I add .ico as an extension that should be handled by php. Then I have the PHP script build the image and return it to the client. As long as you set the content type in the header on the php file, the browser will display it as an icon. It was something I decided to do for fun one day over my lunch break

Theres some false assumptions here...one is that you actually can GET a 9% ROI on any amount of money with no work involved...that claim is highly suspect. Reduce the interest rate to something more reasonable, like 5% APY to get what you'd probably see in returns. Now figure in what percentage of your interest earnings uncle sam is gonna take away come tax season. You're left with a MUCH smaller figure than the "thousands" of dollars you would save by quitting smoking.If you want to make money by not smoking, take the money you *would* be spending on cigarettes, and spend it on stock in a tobacco company...profit off the gradual suicide of others.As for quitting smoking, most intelligent people will stop (or try) when the ramifications to their health become obvious, it becomes too inconvenient to smoke, or both. Case in point, my girlfriend used to smoke. We were toasting pink marshmallows on the stove, so I deliberately burned one to the point where it was black and had "boils" on it. I told her "this is what your cervix will probably look like when you're 60. sex will be excruciating long before that. if you're lucky, you'll develop uterine complications and need a hysterectomy by the time you're 40". She was totally grossed out and cut waaay back on her smoking. Next I told her that I detest smokers, and I'm not going to tolerate her smoking in my house or car, and furthermore, smoking and a future with me are diametrically opposing goals. End result is, she went from smoking a pack a day, to smoking half a cigarette a day and being on the nicotine patch.I hope at least someone can use this and convince someone to quit smoking.

There's always private servers, though playing on them is a bit of a legal gray area, so this post might get deletedI've played Ragnarok and LineageII on private servers in the past...you can download both clients easily (Ragnarok is a little tricky since the game devs wont accept downloads for the Korean client from anything but korean IP blocks) from the internet, no piracy involved. LineageII you'll have to download with BitTorrent or something because the IGN mirror they use to distro the game files is SLOW and this game is like, 2GB.I had waaay more fun on LineageII than I ever did on Ragnarok, but since setting up my own servers and making myself a GM I got so bored with it I haven't played either since.

Very cool...it's also nice to see another dotHACK fan amongst us...especially considering how everyone seems to thing .hack//roots was lame...

So I'm trying to install 10g on my XP Pro development box, and the install goes fine (I do the basic install of enterprise edition, I'm by no means an oracle expert) and when it gets to the part where it wants to create a database, the database creation assistant fails saying first that it cannot retrieve credentials, and then that it can't connect to ORACLE (I'm assuming this is the instance name).Anyone have *any* idea what's going on here?

I've used Navicat before...though to be honest the tools that MySQL AB provides (MySQL Administrator, MySQL Query) are superb. I've never found a task I couldn't manage with one of those 2 tools.

What's the point of using port 443 then? You're just going to confuse people because they'll type https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/ and get an apache error, and nobody is going to want to type https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/ to get the job done. Insecure as it is, shared SSL would be easier to set up, so that you actually *get* SSL on 443. I would *love* to see this; not so much for an e-business perspective, but so I could use basic HTTP authentication without worrying about it on insecure networks so I could perform administrative functions on my site.

Integrate a GPS and a sonic/laser rangefinder somehow and you have a pretty sweet little device there...

It's a new design change either with VS2005 or with the .NET Framework 2.0 to eliminate alot of concurrency bugs. When the exception handler pops up in VS, click the "more info" link...it will take you to an MSDN article explaining how to properly use delegates to do what you want to do in a thread-safe manner.

It's because enums were not supported in Java until 1.5. 1.4 can still use enum as a variable, since it did not become a reserved token until 1.5.

You could always set up a webserver on your mac and make sure it reports the mime type for .xpi properly. I have a feeling your mac is being too smart for its own good and looking at the alternate streams on the file. Either that, or you just renamed the file without changing the extension; i.e., file.zip -> file.xpi.zip. Try doing the rename in the terminal as opposed to the finder. Maybe the Get Info command will let you change the file type...I hope all of this helps

I've had tremendous success with HSQLDB. HSQLDB is the embedded, all-java, relational DBMS that's used as the storage backend for OpenOffice.org Base.Your other option for an embedded RDBMS is to look at the apache derby project. I don't have much experience with it though, so I can't say how it compares to HSQLDB.

Any software is crackable, but if you want to make it a little harder, distribute the full version as a separate binary from the demo. Write into the code (not something lame like into the data section of the exe, so the code cannot be "patched out") some customer ID for those that buy the full version. When you find your software on a p2p network in pirated form, you know who to harass.You *can not* stop software piracy...but you can get a little payback

xHTML is HTML that conforms to valid XML syntax, strictly. It's really up to you. I tend to use xHTML because I like doing DOM tricks and HTML validators don't do the best job at checking for conformance errors that will crash the crap out of the XML validator when I try to build the DOM. Here's a link to briefly outline the differences: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Using CSS is almost mandatory with xHTML since alot of the tags used to control styling (like ALIGN) are deprecated, forcing use of css stylesheets or style attributes. As far as CSS versions, version n+1 just expands on version n, but many browsers don't support the latest/greatest CSS, so keeping the CSS as basic as possible is the approach I would take. The advantage of using PHP is that it is server-side and dynamic, so you get the dynamic pages without the incompatibilities introduced with doing things clientside, with say, javascript to get dynamic data.