Dne Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:27:27 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(arachne-digest) napsal:
> .... Michael P. has set a limit on 256 items in the cache and when it reaches
> that limit, Arachne just stops!
No, Arachne recycles the oldest items - and the expiration rules can be
set differently for statical and dynamical (eg. CGI scripts, .shtml
pages...) objects.
> Clearing the cache (and CACHE.IDX) with the
> F8 key will usually get Arachne zipping along again. On one of my computers
> I have Cache and CACHE.IDX on a resizeable RAM drive that clears every time I
> leave Arachne; on another computer, I hit F8 after I hang up. The "sleep"
> problem has not really been a problem with 1.6b1.
I also hope so. Well, someone has reported frozen downloads, but it is
always hard to determine when the sleeping is caused by line and when by
Arachne itself. In Windows DOS box, the problem may be in operating
system deliberately taking CPU time from supposedly "inactive" processes
:-(
> When did Arachne start having a limit of 256 items in the cache? I have
> exceeded 1000 and could tell, from the DOS prompt, by typing 'dir cache' when
in
> the Arachne directory.
For a long time, there was bug in Arachne cache management module, which
generated new random filename in cache without deleting the old file.
Few releases ago, I took more detailed look at this, and Arachne now
deletes (almost) all temporary files after removing track about them from
CACHE.IDX database. But you can still get "lost" cache items if Arachne
crashes without saving CACHE.IDX
> No windows-only device anywhere.). As I have expected, the picture was
> abit blurry. The fonts were hard to see.. I tried to use the biggest
> system font and HTML font scaling availble, but things still looked
> abit weird. The resolution of the TV is indeed very lousy when you
> get to see how direct computer graphics look on it. Infact, even in
> the lowest resolution Arachne still looked abit hard to understand.
For TV screen, you need 640x480 and special font optimization
(anti-aliasing). Arachne will need different font routines, optimized
for TV screen.
> I remember that DR-WebSpyder had a direct "for TV" visual setting
> option. I want to try it. If it will look more clearer, maybe Michael
> can get some ideas about how to add a "TV visual setup" for Arachne. :)
I think they were using anti-aliased fonts...
.....
> Ever hear of "magnus-internal/parsed-html"? I didn't either, till
> I attempted to view the page that is the subject of this msg.
> Arachne was able to display it after I added the following line to
> MIME.CFG:
> magnus-internal/parsed-html HTM
This is really nasty :-( It is not MIME type at all. MIME types should
start with text/ , image/, audio/, video/ or application/. That's rule!
Parsed HTML still gives "text/html" MIME type. Someone should tell them
their engine is comletely stupid and not RFC compliant :-(
Unfortunately, some browsers (and Arachne will probably have to do it
too) determine MIME type (for unknown stream types only, of course) by
analyzing start of the stream for "magical strings" likek "GIF89a",
"JFIF" or "<HTML>" ...
....
> My stock broker. Jeez. When he sends me jokes, he also sends me his entire
> client list. :-/
:(
My associate. A G**damn PROFESSOR of Engineering Physics. He uses Windows
> because he says: "I need it to run the latest software". He didn't use the
> OLDER software. "You never know when I might need it", he says. "And anyway,
> I need it to get the University email or download something new."
Latest software definitely runs mainly on Linux - show freshmeat.net to
anyone who would doubt. I think that all Arachne advocates need Linux
version to be able to really efficiently argue with Windows users ...
I would currently recommend Windows only for audio processing and other
multimedia operations - well, BeOS may be cool, but for Windows
there is IMHO more software. Macs are traditionaly prefered by artists,
but as far as I had chance to see, their main advantage against Windows
is that they are much more expensive as you can't get cheap "noname" Mac.
I would choose Mac probably only for digital video editing...
There is now really no need to use Windows or Mac for statical graphics
editing and creation, 3D rendering, word processing, spreadsheet
calculations, of course networking of all kind, and surprisingly also
gaming - number of serious commercial game titles ported to Linux is
increasing rapidly. I am not mentioning software development, which is
main reason why people choose Linux rather then anyhing else.
We had to use Windows eg. for realtime video screening during gig of my
band "Skrehule": the cool AVS plugin for WinAMP was not yet ported to
Linux/XMMS, and being X11 application, XMMS plugins can run only in
Window, it would be quite complicated to go fullscreen (but maybe
Englightment window manager can later come with some hack to set lower
resolution and swith any X application to full screen ;-)
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Michael Polak: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arachne Labs: http://arachne.cz/
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