Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
I am writing up a client presentation for next week, and I just realized just how flawed Internet Explorer is. Microsoft claims that the browser is standards compliant. Yet it still doesn’t support HTTP pipelining.
And the frustrating part? They won’t tell us why. I have my suspicions, which include TCP stack issues and a flawed [...]
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23 Aug 2006A few years ago, I wrote an article on how GZIP compression improved Web performance. Don Marti at the Linux Journal was a great editor, and eventually, the article ended up in the online version of the Magazine.
At the time, I used Ian Holsman’s webperf.org (now renamed ITScales) to capture the data. Now that I [...]
Apparent using HTTP compression alongside HTTP/1.1 will cause certain versions of MSIE 6.0 to implode. [here]
I personally think this was because the NSA power shortage was making it too hard for the spooks to snoop on compressed Web traffic. [here]
Via: Port80 Software
PS: No, I won’t turn off compression because Microsoft did something really stupid.
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This post has two underlying reasons for existing: 1) to test out the new MSFT Live Writer Beta; and 2) to talk about a great story that GigaOm pointed us to today.
Om Malik pointed out a story in the Seattle Times today that talked about “Broadband in the Boonies”. Having grown up in the boonies [...]
In: Web Performance
11 Apr 2006Motorola made some site changes today.
The name servers they have listed at the TLD servers are:
ftpbox.mot.com. [129.188.136.101] [TTL=172800] [US]motgate.mot.com. [129.188.136.100] [TTL=172800] [US]
The Authoritative name servers that Motorola list are:
ftpbox.mot.com. [129.188.136.9] [TTL=59719]
motgate.mot.com. [129.188.136.100] [TTL=59719]
Ummm…DNS is a vital thing. Screw it up, and YOU TAKE YOURSELF OFF THE INTERNET!
If you can get to Motorola’s site…let me know.
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Silicon valley has some very mystical appeal in our geek culture.
But it comes with a very severe cost, as Niall Kennedy points out in this post.
How bad is the Bay Area/Silicon Valley? Well, with a lousy school system and decrepit infrastructure added into the mix of a generally higher cost of living, I would [...]
In: RANTING
16 Mar 2006Three Apple vets form a company with no product and no strategy.
They go public and make $30M. [here]
How do I get a piece of this action?
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Patrick McGoohan created the amazing character of “Number Six” a year before I was born. But sitting here in my beautiful home in Massachusetts, I understand the feelings that the character must have experienced.
The premise, for those who don’t know the show, is that Number Six is a top agent for an unnamed spy agency [...]
…and get it out of my head!
Bootystition
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I just listened to the original of Bootylicious [sample on Amazon]. Trust me…this re-mix takes the lyrics to the place they should have gone in the first place.