Up to now, I’ve always declined to set up security questions on my Yahoo Mail account, simply because I have no fears of forgetting my password. I’ve never really thought much about the whole thing. But to my annoyance, today I was forced to select two security questions and answers, before I could even log into my account. Through pure annoyance I nearly lapsed into parody (Question: “Do I really give a F—?
For those with broadband, you can enable pipelining to increase the speed of page loading as follows.
How do you compare two images for similarity? One way is by hashing them using something like JImageHash. Libraries such as this reduce an image to a much smaller binary hash. The idea is that when hashing two images which look similar (but aren’t identical), the two hashes will be very similar. It’s possible then to get a ‘similarity score’ by finding how many bits in the two binary hashes are different.
The XHTML 1.0 specification is basically an attempt by W3C to provide a new standard of http markup, with much greater compatibility over various ‘user agents’, without breaking anything.
The Web Developers' Virtual Library says it well:
Portability: By the year 2002 as much as 75% of Internet access could be carried out on non-PC platforms such as palm computers, televisions, fridges, automobiles, telephones, etc. In most cases these devices will not have the computing power of a desktop computer, and will not be designed to accommodate ill-formed HTML as do current browsers (bloated with code to handle sloppy or proprietary HTML).
Having just read a presentation by one of the key developers at livejournal.com, about how they scaled up their technology as their userbase rocketed, I’m thinking about this site.
Obviously not in a sense of it having anywhere NEAR as much traffic, but there’s certainly things I can do to improve performance.
Particularly - and this is bad - there is no server-side caching, at least on the dynamic pages. Well, I knocked it up in a weekend so it’s not fully there yet!
It looks like Google really are attempting to take the online marketplace. They’ve just recruited one of the original figureheads behind Internet Explorer, along with a key coder who was working on the user interface for Longhorn.
What have they got in mind?
Well it appears on whois.org that they have registered the domain name gbrowser.com …
Story here