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The email from Google.
Google is going onto no longer support Internet Explorer 6.0 and will be moving onto better thing. Since the release of HTML5 there has been a fair amount of hype but not a lot of big sites have switched over to it yet. Youtube which is owned by Google was the first to go big but now it looks as though they will be doing so with their search engine.
Dear Google Apps admin,
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
The Google Apps team
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1 reason to get akismet
Akismet is a plug-in that WordPress uses to stop spam. It is very helpful and I recently came across an old WordPress blog that I thought about revising. This blog did not have the plug-in initialized and thus I was led to find some spam with not so nice words.
Partition Setup For Bit Torrent Downloaders
Note: Do not download illegal content, you can get fined or sent to jail. It is ok to download content that is legal and just shared over bit torrent networks.
Introduction
There are different computer setups for different people that are all based upon how the computer is used. I write this assuming that you are considered a pirate and download content via bit torrent. So you probably know how important it is to properly allocate the space in your hard disks. This article is to help you build the proper setup for downloading a lot of content.
Before I get to into storage structures I’m going to start by splitting this up into four groups of users. Group 1 is going to be people who use they’re computer for web, email, downloading, and the occasional game. We are going to call this the average user. The second group is going to be called the power user. This is the group of people who download enough to fill up a fair sized hard disk and space management is a common problem. The third group of people is going to be the advanced users. These are the people who have multiple hard drives and constantly download through bit torrent. The final group of people are going to be called avid downloaders. This group is people that constantly have a bit torrent downloader running, multiple hard disks dedicated to downloading and possibly a home theatre system connected via home network.
Average user
There are good chances that your computer is just straight out of the box and you have a hard disk that that is within the range 250GB to 1TB. For the range in setups that the average user should have to download torrents at a higher level is as follows.
250GB Hard Disk
- 80GB – Operating System, programs, and files.
- 20GB – Operating System backup, and crucial file backup.
- 150GB – Downloaded Content
500GB Hard Disk
- 80GB – Operating System, programs, and files.
- 60GB – Operating System backup, and crucial file backup.
- 360GB – Downloaded Content and other forms of media.
1T Hard Disk
- 120GB – Operating System, programs, and files.
- 80GB – Operating System backup, and crucial file backup.
- 800GB – Downloaded Content and other forms of media.
Pending on user preference the 800GB is quite a lot of space and you may want to split it into two partitions. Such as:
- 150GB – Photos, Videos you will want to keep.
- 650GB – Downloaded Content.
Power user
As a power user space is most likely a common problem even though you most likely have multiple hard disks of a large capacity. A lot of users within this category download and burn onto DVDs to play on their DVD players and this really isn’t an effective way to put those torrents to use. I recommend reading the avid downloader section for some ideas on how to manage your content.
Assuming you have multiple hard disks and you not only use your computer for downloading.
300GB Main Hard Disk and 500GB Secondary Hard Disk
300GB Hard Disk 1
- 200GB – Operating System, programs, and files.
- 50GB – Operating System backup, and crucial file backup.
- 50GB – Games, high resource programs
500GB Hard Disk 2
This is going to be a very open Hard Disk because the usage will be downloaded content. You can simply just put all of your files onto the drive but having proper partitions is always nice when dealing with content.
- 100GB – Downloaded Programs and files
- 400GB – Downloaded Video
640GB Main Hard Disk and 1TB Secondary Hard Disk
640GB Hard Disk 1
- 350GB – Operating System, high resource programs, and files.
- 100GB – Operating System backup, and crucial file backup.
- 100GB – Games
- 40GB – Photos, other files
1TB Hard Disk 2
This is going to be a very open Hard Disk because the usage will be downloaded content. You can simply just put all of your files onto the drive but having proper partitions is always nice when dealing with content.
- 250GB – downloaded programs and files
- 300GB – Downloaded movies
- 450GB – Downloaded TV Shows
Advanced user
Being an advanced user you have two or more Hard Disks. This means that your downloaded content is going to properly organized throughout these disks for easy access to files, programs and content.
Similar to a power users but more storage.
640GB Main Hard Disk and 1TB Secondary Hard Disk
640GB Hard Disk 1
- 350GB – Operating System, high resource programs, and files.
- 100GB – Operating System backup, and crucial file backup.
- 100GB – Games
- 40GB – Photos, other files
1TB Hard Disk 2
This is going to be a very open Hard Disk because the usage will be downloaded content. You can simply just put all of your files onto the drive but having proper partitions is always nice when dealing with content.
- 250GB – downloaded programs and files
- 300GB – Downloaded movies
- 450GB – Downloaded TV Shows
640GB Main Hard Disk, 1TB Secondary Hard Disk, 1TB Third Hard Disk
640GB Hard Disk 1
- 350GB – Operating System, high resource programs, and files.
- 100GB – Operating System backup, and crucial file backup.
- 100GB – Games
- 40GB – Photos, other files
1TB Hard Disk 2
This drive is for downloaded TV shows and Programs.
- 800GB – downloaded TV shows
- 200GB – downloaded Programs
1TB Hard Disk 3
This drive is for downloaded movies and Programs.
- 800GB – downloaded movies
- 300GB – miscellaneous Files, i.e. PDF, images, etc.
Avid downloader
For avid downloaders it is best to keep everything open due to all of the file transferring going through your network. It is best to keep manage these remotely because you will more then likely just use it as a download box, storage box, or cable box.
Main Hard Disk
Size – 20GB+
Something small will work its just for the operating system.
Storage Disks
1TB Hard Disk 2 – Storage 1
- 500GB – open
- 500GB – open
1TB Hard Disk 3 – Storage 2
- 500GB – open
- 500GB – open
1TB Hard Disk 4 – Storage 3
- 500GB – open
- 500GB – open
It is hard to tell an avid user what to do as far as storage because most avid users know their way around a computer and have certain preferences that pertain to storage management across drives and networks.
Remember pirating content is illegal.
Caleb Jonasson
HTML5 – Read more on Carsonified
Click the image and you will enjoy the display of some features offered by HTML 5.
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The HTML 5 spec was originally called “Web Applications 1.0″. Most of the attention has been on the new markup elements, but in his talk he takes a further look at the applications side of the spec, covering:
- Dynamic images and graphs with canvas
- Eliminating much forms validation with webforms 2.0
- Local storage automagically saving your data
- Geolocation
- Building toolbars and menus.”
The Future of HTML5 by Bruce Lawson from Carsonified on Vimeo.
The Switch from Go Daddy to Dreamhost
Slowly making a switch from the old blog over at theemptyheaded.com to a new one that will be replacing the content. The reason I am changing from one blog to the next is first and foremost, The Empty Headed blog is hosted by Go Daddy and I have not been happy with the services that they have been providing.
Not only was it next to impossible to cancel domain renewal for an old site of mine but they kept sending me emails saying that they had tried to charge the previous credit card for renewal of the said domain. It is very unprofessional on their behalf to send emails that ask you if you would like to renew your domain even after saying no.
Aside from my renewal issues with Go Daddy I have been having frequent database connection issues where the code is not at fault. These errors stop users from properly visiting the blog and everything else on the site since everything is PHP and SQL.
Another reason for switching is, I already have a much better package deal with Dreamhost that includes unlimited bandwidth, storage, databases and hosted URLs. Much like go daddy they have the one click install for server installations which is very handy when new packages come out.
The final reason I am switching fully from go Daddy to Dreamhost is to increase my traffic with a new URL. When it comes to a web development a URL such as theemptyheaded.com is not going to bring me traffic from search engines that I am after, whereas codewithdesign.com will.
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