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2mbit now on UPC cable, moved down from 10mbit as i wasnt using it that much for downloads

im more interested in upload speed and low latency for managing remote servers

i have a dozen linux servers (OpenSuse 10.x) by this stage paying $$$$/month in rental fees




with hetzner.de (excellent hardware, top uptime, english speaking support)


and zenex5ive.com (alot of cheap bandwidth, im using ~1gbit 24x7 between several servers, very fast support, highly configurable hardware options)




to run several huge sites, with 0.5% daily alexa reach (thats 1 in every 200 internet users going thru my servers daily)

apples and oranges?



dude slow down cause 1+1 != 3

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=081

 has to be the best product to ever come out of microsoft

i love it

YAST

i taught you were talking about my favourite piece of Suse Linux software!

BlackTiger wrote:

BLOODY HELL #2!

It's IMPOSSIBLE to uninstall this Service Pack!

i cant install it! windows update downloads it then errors out

more talk on the subject over at sitepoint (biggest web developer site)

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=518419

DMassy wrote:


Silence means no customer engagement, leaving customers feeling ignored and even leading to silly speculation that the team doesn't really exist. It's very important that customers are heard within the team and feel they are being heard. When customers feel they are being ignored they feel insulted and you lose their trust.
I'm sure IE8 will be amazing and win back some of that trust, and I really hope the team does deliver. However it'd be a lot easier to regain trust if there was an ongoing dialog with customers, even if it was only "We hear you and our goal is to ease the pain". I at least hope that is still the goal of the IE team

Cheers
-Dave
www.dmassy.com 

your right isnt the whole point of channel9 is to give insight into microsoft

to be more "open"



i mean one can get some very detailed info and lots of posts from lets say Silverlight team, which until 2.0 ships will remain in the realm of toy to play with

while on the other hand theres deafening silence from IE team who actually have a product thats used by millions of people



what are people expect to think when presented with above situation?




the fact that there questions and emotions and facts being raised means people still do care about IE, it be very disturbing day for they IE team when no one cares anymore (tho with such a large market share its unlikely to be anytime soon) or even worse they either have to join another team or loose their jobs

came across this interesting blog post

http://home.jondavis.net:880/blog/post/2007/12/Option-Of-The-Unthinkable-Boycott-Internet-Explorer.aspx

It also reminds us that Microsoft has completely forgotten that Internet Explorer is a development platform. Not only that, but it is a Windows-only development platform, one that Microsoft should care deeply about for their own proprietary sake. And development platforms, as was demonstrated in Visual Studio, demand early communication.

the article is well written and i feel same way as the author

But now I am feeling such an aching burden in my heart. I feel like Microsoft's complacency has developed into betrayal. They don't care about client-side web developers anymore, I feel, not unless those are Silverlight folks.







also this here is new

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/ie-standards-chris-wilson

Massif wrote:

You know that you're going against the received wisdom there don't you? (The received wisdom being that HTML's "any idiot can make a website" design is one of the key factors in its success.)

are all the terrible myspace type pages worth the all the millions of hours in lost productivity from developers world wide?

do i have to suffer because some muppets forget to close their tags or god knows what else?

imagine if visual studio was forgiving when one forgot to put a semicolon at the end of a line?





as i said why not leave html as it is, but have the browser fork the layout engine to adhere to strict new well taught out standards, be it latest versions of html or css or whatever



or even better, scrap HTML and use XAML!




this way idiots can continue making their tag soup while good developers can sit back and enjoy more free time!




someone needs to come along and say enough lets develop a way of easily making interfaces, learning from all the mistakes of html