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Re: Github Announce Atom IDE

Dan Allen — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:40:33 -0000

I will go out on a limb and say atom does not provide every benefit of all existing IDEs.

Atom has something that no other ideas has: Atom is built using Electron and Chromium. For developing web and mobile apps, electron and chromium best elements to start with. That means atom has potential to outclass all other Ides.

Achieving that potential will require a more powerful development effort I see working on it now

Most of the work done so far is exceptionally well done

Re: Github Announce Atom IDE

Dan Allen — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:17:24 -0000

I love reading truth. Nice work.

Re: Installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Mac OS X El Capitan

Dan Allen — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:34:14 -0000

While interesting and cool to put lamp on osx, there is a problem it creates and a great way of avoiding it, and still running lamp on your osx machine.

The problem is the conflict of what you want from a personal computer and what you get from a computer used for development. Maybe it is just me, but the main thing I want from my personal computer is reliability. stability, speed, ability to upgrade. Using a personal computer for a development environment is like trying to run a refrigerator in the middle of a forest fire. Development entails experimentation, some of those experiments are going to trash the computer where its tried.

So here is what you do to get the best development environment on your osx machine that won't trash your personal computer, and does not require buying a 2nd computer. Instead, run VMWare on your Mac, then create virtual Linux computers using vmware on your mac and and then install lamp on the virtual computers running as isolated environments inside your MC.That way, when your development environment crashes, it crashes in a way that can't kill your personal computer.

So forget about running lamp in OSX. Put the Linux system of your choice, or several of them, on your Mac as virtual servers and save yourself the agony of trashing your personal computer with turbulent shards that fly from a development environment from time to time

There is a catch. You need disk, memory, and processing power for those virtual machines.Those will cost you. Best way to get the power you need for virtual servers on osx? 2012 MacPro with dual 6-core xeon processors 64G RAM and 10TB of hard drive. You can get a rig like that for under $2000.

Re: Commission Integration Using Generic Pixel Tracking

Dan Allen — Thu, 11 May 2017 20:32:15 -0000

Using the generic tracking pixel, how does JAM know which affiliate earned a commission?

Re: JPG vs. PNG: Which Should I Use?

Dan Allen — Thu, 04 May 2017 01:35:59 -0000

Glen, thank you for letting me know about jpg being lossy. I guess the term lossy means that something is lost every time the file is saved. So a low quality png does not lose quality when it is saved, making it lossless. You can have a high quality jpg that is going to look great compared to a low quality png of the same image, but the png still is lossless because it loses nothing upon saving. The jpg is going to lose something on saving but still can be a better image the the png. Also, I stumbled on the fact that jpg has a standard for lossless compression, but it is not used in any popular product for handling jpg.

Re: Set a Static IP Address in VMware Fusion 7

Dan Allen — Wed, 03 May 2017 23:27:10 -0000

Unfortunately, adding to dhcpd.conf on osx10.12.2 with VMWare 8.5.3 hosting Debian 7 with bridged networking did not work.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
So, I read this article,
https://communities.vmware....
that says the ip is assigned by my router when using bridged networking on the vm network adaptor.

Based on that article, I logged into my router (routerlogin.net) and clicked on LAN SETUP then reserved IPs for my two VMs. That did the trick.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Re: JPG vs. PNG: Which Should I Use?

Dan Allen — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:39:42 -0000

Hi Glen, have ever seen options on saving jpgs where you can specify the quality level you want? With those, you can have noticeable image degradation in one save cycle for sure. Now i am thinking you knew all that already, but then I get confused trying to understand the0

https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

The thing I am most confused about is the way png can be saved to smaller file sizes by trading some of the image quality. Why do people say it does not do that? https://uploads.disquscdn.c... I have really high and low quality jpg and really high and low quality png, based on options in the file save process. The third image I put up is a decent jpg, I am surprised to learn would be higher saves a png. The fourth picture is a png version of much lower quality.

So, my misundestanding is thinking you can have high and low quality jpg and png, the only advantage of png being its support of transparency. It's not true that png is higher quality than jpg in all cases, but I guess png's upper end has less distortion than jpg, but reading this article, now I know what I said is wrong. https://uploads.disquscdn.c... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Re: downdetector.com/status/level3

Dan Allen — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 23:50:00 -0000

Found out the slow internet in Houston coming in from the west is due to Level 3 sucking all the time. Now I have to figure out what to do about it.

Re: 6 reasons why your Internet connection is so slow

Dan Allen — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 23:32:03 -0000

How do you explain this?

Pulling a 200MB file from my web server in Las Vegas (hosted by PAX 8) to my home computer in Houston, Texas is slow as dirt with frequent stalls. It actually starts fast (more than 1M/s) then slows down to less than 100kb/s

Pulling the same 200MB from my other webserver in New York (hosted by Digital Ocean) to my home computer in Houston, Texas is great, usually more than 5MB/s.

Here the twist. Pulling the file from Las Vegas to New York, is fast, more than 5MB/s

Seems to me, something with wrong in the transmission from Las Vegas to Houston. Everything runs fast, except when it has to travel from Las Vegas to Houston.

Bigger question: what can I do about it?

Re: Organize Your Next PHP Project the Right Way

Dan Allen — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 14:24:16 -0000

How about this:

index.php
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https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
live example: https://devserver-002.info/...

products.php
---------------- https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
live example: https://devserver-002.info/...

Re: Organize Your Next PHP Project the Right Way

Dan Allen — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:56:08 -0000

This is an excellent rebuttal to my remarks. I don't have an argument for it either.

When I wrote my comments,I was in the middle of developing a directory structure for my projects and was thinking outside the box.

Since then, the directory structure I developed is pretty much exactly the norm and 100% consistent with what you said. I am not convinced it is the best way, but it is familiar and getting away from it proved not that important.

Sticking with the familiar makes it a lot easier for other developers to understand. That is very important consideration.

So basically, i retract everything I wrote above.

I also appreciate the analysis you provided. i had not thought of it that way before.

Re: Default Sizes for Twitter Bootstrap’s Media Queries

Dan Allen — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:49:01 -0000

What class or classes do you put on a column if you want it to be 12 bootstrap columns in 320px viewport and 6-bootstrap columns on a 480 pixel viewport? The best I can figure out is to use col-xs-6, but that displays at 12 bootstrap columns on any viewport under 768 pix.

Re: The very latest clearfix reloaded

Dan Allen — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 03:44:44 -0000

So here we are again, putting gold leaf on the turd that is the Floating Div Scam. The scam is all this time wasted on coping with a problem instead of focusing on solving the problem at its root. The root of this problem the CSS Specification is inadequate on this subject. Our attention should be on correcting the spec and then none of us will need to spend another moment on this stupid issue.

Re: 7 Ways to Actually Make Money Online

Dan Allen — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:56:37 -0000

Is it really true that I can make my shopify store to look any way I want? I run a site at route66mc.com. How would I make shopify look just like what we have there now?

Re: Things To Do After Installing Debian 8.0

Dan Allen — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:48:42 -0000

The only problem I encountered is dpkg: apache2-mpm-worker: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
apache2 depends on apache2-mpm-worker (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u6) | apache2-mpm-prefork (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u6) | apache2-mpm-event (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u6) | apache2-mpm-itk (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u6); however:
Package apache2-mpm-worker is to be removed.
Package apache2-mpm-prefork is not installed.
Package apache2-mpm-event is not installed.
Package apache2-mpm-itk is not installed.

phpinfo is coming back blank. Php totally not working on Wheezy. Steps I did were:
New vps with Wheezy
1. Installed Apache 2 using instructions from here. Works ok,as proven by this link.
2. Installed MySQL using instructions from same source.
3. Ran the commands from this source to setup deb repository, Less than pristine result on that step,:
$ wget http://www.dotdeb.org/dotde... -O- |apt-key add –
--2016-03-25 03:35:57-- http://www.dotdeb.org/dotde...
Resolving www.dotdeb.org (www.dotdeb.org)... gpg: can't open `–': No such file or directory
195.154.242.153, 2001:bc8:21eb:100::1
Connecting to www.dotdeb.org (www.dotdeb.org)|195.154.242.153|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5299 (5.2K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `STDOUT'

0% [ ] 0 --.-K/s in 0s

Cannot write to `-' (Broken pipe).
root@boss 16-03-25 03:35:57 sources.list.d$ clear

4. figured that was not going to work so I ran the command on this page, which appeared to run normally,
wget http://www.dotdeb.org/dotde...
--2016-03-25 03:40:47-- http://www.dotdeb.org/dotde...
Resolving www.dotdeb.org (www.dotdeb.org)... 195.154.242.153, 2001:bc8:21eb:100::1
Connecting to www.dotdeb.org (www.dotdeb.org)|195.154.242.153|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5299 (5.2K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `dotdeb.gpg'

100%[============================================>] 5,299 --.-K/s in 0s

2016-03-25 03:40:47 (598 MB/s) - `dotdeb.gpg' saved [5299/5299]

root@boss 16-03-25 03:40:47 sources.list.d$ apt-key add dotdeb.gpg
OK

But when installing php, more unfortunate responses:
N: Ignoring file 'dotdeb.gpg' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
root@boss 16-03-25 03:44:55 sources.list.d$ apt-get install php5 php-pear php5-mysql

dpkg: apache2-mpm-worker: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
apache2 depends on apache2-mpm-worker (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u6) | apache2-mpm-prefork (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u6) | apache2-mpm-event (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u6) | apache2-mpm-itk (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u6); however:
Package apache2-mpm-worker is to be removed.
Package apache2-mpm-prefork is not installed.
Package apache2-mpm-event is not installed.
Package apache2-mpm-itk is not installed.

And bottom line, php is not working

Re: Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it

Dan Allen — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:01:53 -0000

Thank you a million times for your testimony! You explained so much so well, I am torn between avoiding the risk of ... ok, I am taking the risk.

When all the things you wrote happened to me, I contacted Apple. I tried the support forums, calling the store, going to the store, going back to the store to meet with the geniuses. I was so excited, because I never had met with someone so smart they could be called geniuses in public.

In the end, the geniuses gave me the same thing all the other Apple contacts gave me: the unique feeling of being told the problem is caused by me being an idiot. The angle of their noses all were the same, because all those people expressed personal sympathy for the frustration I was experiencing. I verified that it was personal, by checking my notes and seeing they all personally sympathized the same way, using the same phrases and tones of voice. If it had not been so personal, I might have jumped the wrong conclusion and suspected their step-by-step process for handling tech support and system usability issues includes a step for persuading the customer they sympathize, based on a similar experience they had that made them feel bad, the way I was feeling.

Once they have you thinking that someone is on your side, they help you through the bad news: there is nothing they are going to do with your computer or phone, because it is in perfect working order, and how that means, if you think about it, the cause of the problem I am having with the computer is not the computer, so it must be _________________ they are saying I am the problem. I really love that..

Then they repeat the sympathy step where they cannot relate as well,because as they admit, theyh never have had to face the discovery, like I had to face, of being really dumb and therefore, the cause of my perception of malfunction is me not knowing how to operate the computer. Questions relating to whether the computer acts dumb because some of the decisions Apple made about what it does really ought to be reconsidered, those questions are referred to the Change what The Romans Did department, which has a perfect record for producing the same consistent result: no effect.

At least they are willing to tell me they will help me any way they possibly can, then introduce me to their paid support services who provide a repeat performance of The Computer is Fine the Problem is You Are An Idiot and I am a Genius, (sing it!), but with the added bonus of zapping dough from my bank account even before I have signed the electronic contract that gives them the power to sodomize me and say they are sorry while escalating my case up the chain of Same Deal, Higher Cost, Could Be Better But It's Going To Be Worse!

I am arrogant. i hate being arrogant but I cannot help it. From what my friends have said, it's an annoying, disrespectful attitude with an unjustified sense of goodness that puts me way into the zone marked "Ahole" and I am not taking about the first green on the mini golf course. I cannot fix it because it is a kind of psychological problem the way being an alcoholic is a psychological problem, only drunks can become better people. I would have to abandon inflated, false beliefs I depend upon for my unjustified sense of esteem. I really hope I am not proud of being arrogant. I am one person used totally by the values of arrogance. See? I did it right there with a grand gesture of regret of being arrogant, but here I am, more arrogant than I was a moment ago.

There is something arrogant about Apple computers. Using that arrogance to help me understand that the problem with iTunes is of my own making makes me love dealing with Apple the same way I love sleeping on thick beds of thorns and broken glass, with people stealing my stuff and the other people playing the urinal game with me trying to sleep.

And even after all that, I cling to the belief, the way iTunes is setup with iphone and my mac is for a purpose that is not to make a product useful to its purchaser. They actually said said what I thought: they set it up this way because I had no right to copy pirated music, and they had no answer for, "what makes you think my voice memos are pirated music?"

Truth about pirated music? The fact that Apple introduces that topic into the discussion is their confession that their customer's interestes are not at the heart of their product design.

There is one person who was able to make Apple a success. He did it twice. He had a unique talent for making products people liked while double dealing the product with people besides the buyers of the product. Well, that guy is dead. Without my good friend and colleague Stevie J., Apple's future is like the future of the excellent but non-rechargeable batteries in one of my flashlights. Bright today. Less bright tomorrow. The condition is terminal, There is no chance of more than a finite and measureable amount of life left in those batteries, same as Apple computer, where golf is more important to the team in Cupertino that makes nothing except pieces of paper they put on top of the machines they pay to have made in China when the machines are put in boxes with shrink wrap. Yep, the machines are designed in Cupertino and when my good friend Stevie J. died, Apple's ability to design the winning products died too.

With Stevie gone, the Reaper has picked up his pace on march to Apple's door. When the reaper strikes first blood from Apple, we all know, if we are honest with ourselves, iTunes is going to be disembowed, spread across the floor, dying surely but too fast for my preferences. The longest slowest most agonizing death for iTunes is what I want. The way folks used to get slowly cooked over a fire ,where the height of the human roast could be adjusted vertically to draw out the moment of death for the time desired by the event staff, or the Dutch deal of being engorged with milk and honey to make your guts a bomb set go off in an hour, using the hour for breaking all your bones so your arms and legs can be braided around the spokes of a big wooden wheel, saving the expense of rope without sacrificing reliability of the knots, then leaving you and the wheel on a thatched roof to be eaten by birds and bugs for a week with a life expectancy of at least several days but not more than ten (the no meals or water program provided the upper bound) or in a pinch, even the boring ol' crucifixion or skinned alive soothing the wounds with salt would be enough of a gesture that I might be able to experience peace once again in my life. These are my hopes and dreams for iTunes, which are impassioned only by my objective knowledge of what I know to be true and just, because if I were driven by hate or spite, well, that scenario is beyond the scope of this thread.

Re: Your Mac’s built-in screen recorder

Dan Allen — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:18:40 -0000

The best thing about this screen capture to video is it fills disk space extremely efficiently. For example, I just made a 1 minute video and it used 15M of disk. The other video program on my computer only used 2M, lame.

Re: Did the Pentagon Retaliate Against an Officer Who Questioned Afghanistan Waste?

Dan Allen — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 04:43:26 -0000

I used to read whistleblower stories and think what heroes they are. Took till I was 45 to start noticing, they almost always get hammered and not rewarded. That is a serious bummer. People do great things but we sure do a lot of dumb things too. It is depressing.

Re: How Code School Verifies Student Submissions

Dan Allen — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 09:32:31 -0000

Testing

Re: How Code School Verifies Student Submissions

Dan Allen — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:39:00 -0000

Is there a good reason why transforms do not allow commas between terms, and transitions require them? Sometimes, I wonder if the specs for CSS could contain flaws, such as inconsistent rule patterns? The Floating Div Scam still baffles me. I'd really like to find a way to verify why floating divs do not give height to their containers. I think it's a flaw in CSS, and I wonder if the comma no comma transition transform might be another case of not exactly perfect programming language.

I have another comment. You folks are seriously perky lol haha! I love programming, but my experience with it is not anything like the perky, have fun playing games scene portrayed at Code School. Does your faculty do work for clients, or just the school? I will say your work with javascript is outstanding.

Re: Restoring a single database from a complete MySQL database dump

Dan Allen — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:04:09 -0000

Excellent information and excellent theme to your site.

Re: Scheduling Tasks (Linux)

Dan Allen — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:20:09 -0000

Where is the crontab master, referenced by the crontabs in /var/spool/cron/crontabs All the crontabs in there say
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.

So where is the Master, not in gui, but in the file system?

Re: Backup and Restoration

Dan Allen — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 03:17:10 -0000

The doc says, "Back up the entire server," then lists the details.

My people insist that I backup every single file on the server. I was able to identify more than 100,000 files on the server that are not covered by the list of backup levels shown above. As an example, one of them is:
/bin/bash

So, the backup facility backs up the items listed, but not the files that are there for the OS? Can anyone verify that I am understanding? Would appreciate that sanity check. Thank you.

Re: Organize Your Next PHP Project the Right Way

Dan Allen — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 05:42:33 -0000

i like the config array as well. Put it all in one place and that place is everywhere by putting it into $GLOBALS

Re: Organize Your Next PHP Project the Right Way

Dan Allen — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 05:40:00 -0000

One thing for sure: the answer rarely is the same between two systems