Simple ASP RSS XML Data Feed Importer and Reader
This is an easy and simple ASP script that will import, read and display RSS data feeds.
It uses Microsoft.XMLDOM to import and process the code.
The way this code works, there is no need to use an external XSL style sheet since all the formatting
is done right within the script.
You can plug this script into any of your .asp pages for it to work.
Source: http://www.sorenwinslow.com/RSSAspCode.asp
Here is the code for the easy RSS/XML feed reader:
TheFeed = "http://www.amadirectlink.com/amadirectlink.xml"
Set objXML = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
objXML.Async = False
objXML.SetProperty "ServerHTTPRequest", True
objXML.ResolveExternals = True
objXML.ValidateOnParse = True
objXML.Load(TheFeed)
CellCount = 0
If (objXML.parseError.errorCode = 0) Then
Set objRoot = objXML.documentElement
If IsObject(objRoot) = False Then
Response.Write "There was an error retrieving the news feed"
Else
Set objItems = objRoot.getElementsByTagName("item")
If IsObject(objItems) = True Then
For Each objItem in objItems
On Error Resume Next
TheTitle = objItem.selectSingleNode("title").Text
TheLink = objItem.selectSingleNode("link").Text
TheDesc = objItem.selectSingleNode("description").Text
TheDate = objItem.selectSingleNode("pubDate").Text
Response.Write "" & _
"" & TheTitle & "" & _
"" & _
"
"
Response.Write TheDesc & _
"
"
Response.Write TheDate & _
"
"
Next
End If
Set objItems = Nothing
End If
Else
Response.Write "There was an error retrieving the news feed"
End If
Set objXML = Nothing
The Fast Enough Computer
Why you shouldn't always buy the fastest, most expensive parts; even if you can afford them.
While I have not yet (and may never) recover from my addiction to having the Biggest Fastest Most Expensive computer parts I can afford, the experience I've gained writing for this website over the past year or so has hammered home the lesson that most of the time, I'm just wasting my money. And you probably are, too.
What do you need a fast computer for?
Unless you're a professional who needs the power of a high-end workstation, the meanest, cheapest no-name box you can buy is likely more than sufficient for everything you do...except gaming. That's the metric I'm going to use here: frame rates in games, at a decent resolution with good visual effects. Looking at the Steam hardware survey, we can see that the most common gaming resolution is 1680x1050 pixels, so that's what I'll use. The goal is to build a system that will play most modern games at 30fps or better at 1680x1050 with good visual quality (i.e. without having to turn off anti-aliasing or other visual effects) and decent expansion capability for the least amount of money.
Benchmarks don't matter
Most of us will look to benchmark results to determine a computer's performance. It's like taking your car to the local drag strip and seeing how fast it'll do the 1/4 mile run. But much of the time, a benchmark score has about as much relevance to your computer as your car's 1/4 miles time has to its day-to-day driving experience. This is especially true for synthetic benchmarks: while tuning your system to deliver the bestest fastest results in AIDA64 or PassMark can be fun, all that really matters at the end of the day is how many FPS you can spit out in Crysis, Metro 2033, Bad Company, or whatever your favorite game is.
Sure, having a monster system that delivers triple-digit frame rates on a 30" monitor with the latest DX11 games with all the eye candy turned on confers certain bragging rights...and if bragging rights is what you're after, well, go get those three NVIDIA GTX580 cards and start overclocking them. But don't expect it to make any difference in your gaming experience unless you're running a PhysX-heavy game in 3D Vision on a triple monitor system. What, that's not what you're running? Well, then...
Consider this: first, if your system can maintain 30 frames per second or more on a given game, that's Fast Enough. Very few people can discern the visual difference between 30fps and anything faster. I certainly can't. But even if you can, the absolute limit is 60fps, because that's the refresh frequency of your monitor. It physically can't display more than that, and when you do, you get horizontal "tearing" artifacts, which is why most games these days have an option to sync the frame redraws to the monitor's vertical refresh, effectively capping your frame rate at 60fps. Given this, who cares if your system can generate more frames per second? You're not going to see them.
Second, game developers want to produce games that run well on mid-range systems, because people with Intel 980X systems running dual NVIDIA GTX580 cards don't really make up a large part of the market. Sure, Crysis brought even high-end systems to their knees when it was introduced, but do you want to spend hundreds of dollars to run a single game?
So, what do you need to play current modern games at 1680x1050 with good frame rates and decent visual quality? As it turns out, all you need is a computer that's Fast Enough. Here's what I'd suggest...
More here
Source: Benchmarkreviews.com
I don't usually cry, but once I did I feel much stronger. I don't need to cry to be strong. There are lots of things that I don't understand in this journey ... I'll be extra careful
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nForce 700 series for Snow Leopard using iATKOS S3 Version 2 (10.6.3)http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184224&st=1640
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=284&
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2074&hilit=nforce+790i
10.6.5 update: After updating to 10.6.5 I can boot with all 4 cores in 32bit mode
nForce 790i SLI Ultra for Leopardhttp://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127212&st=0&p=899331&#entry899331
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=180127
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=187846
nForce 700 series Snow Leopard guide:http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184224&st=0#entry1252071http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=284&nForce ATA Drivers http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=211866&pid=1420852&st=0&#entry1420852
Multiple video card in Snow Leopardhttp://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183349&st=20http://aquamac.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hack1&action=display&thread=569http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=110366EFI Nvidia the easy wayhttp://forum.netkas.org/index.php?topic=222.0Spotlight problem:As for Spotlight indexing generated KPs, often it is a result of the attempted Spotlight indexing of a mounted NTFS volume..........
In which case, look out for
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mds
as mds is the metadata server. It serves all clients of the metadata APIs, including Spotlight.......also look for
com.apple.filesystems.ntfs(3.3)@0x14de000->0x153dfff
indicating a NTFS filesystem support issue........
You can drag your NTFS volume into the Privacy window by going to System Preferences >>>> Spotlight >>>> Privacy............this will prevent Spotlight from trying to index it..........
Antivirus software may also trigger mds when searching for viruses.....
frezzing without a KP is may be a Spotlight indexing problem. When i have spotlight enabled my system is pretty unstable and frezzes like every 10 min. When it's disabled i have no problems.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184224&st=1620
When it comes to starting a successful business, there's no surefire playbook that contains the winning game plan.
On the other hand, there are about as many mistakes to be made as there are entrepreneurs to make them.
Recently, after a work-out at the gym with my trainer—an attractive young woman who's also a dancer/actor—she told me about a web series that she's producing and starring in together with a few friends. While the series has gained a large following online, she and her friends have not yet incorporated their venture, drafted an operating agreement, trademarked the show's name or done any of the other things that businesses typically do to protect their intellectual property and divvy up the owners' share of the company. While none of this may be a problem now, I told her, just wait until the show hits it big and everybody hires a lawyer.
Here, in my experience, are the top 10 mistakes that entrepreneurs make when starting a company:
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467004575463460389523660.html
One of the best ways around this is to install Windows 7 from a USB drive, which can cut the install time down to around 15 minutes (from 30-40 via DVD) if you use a fast drive. I am constantly being asked to explain to friends and colleagues the best way to do this as many of the guides online are too complex, or require third party software which doesn’t always work. With this KitGuru guide all you need to ensure is that your motherboard supports USB booting … which is pretty much a common feature now.
Today I am going to publish a step by step guide which works perfectly and doesn’t require any additional tools – I have been doing it for some time now to create bootable Windows install drives.
Firstly, you need to get hold of a fast USB 2.0 flash drive – such as the Corsair Survivor GTR unit we reviewed a while ago. It doesn’t need to be 32GB however, all you need is a 4GB unit. The faster it is, the less time you will wait.
What you need:
- A Windows 7 DVD install disc
- A USB Drive (4GB+ and as fast as you can get)
- A Keyboard
- A Mouse
- A PC
- A running Windows Operating system
- A working set of hands and eyes
- 15 minutes of your life
Plug in your USB drive – we are using a 32GB Corsair Survivor for this, which is totally overkill but its the fastest unit we have in our offices right now.
Before continuing, make sure you have removed any important files on your drive to a safe location, what we are about to do will totally erase the contents. Don’t blame me if you accidentally erase all the naked photos of your girlfriend.
Insert your DVD of Windows 7 into the computer, no, don’t install it.
Open your ‘my computer’ and make a note of the drive numbers of both the USB drive and the DVD drive with Windows 7 files on it.
As you can see from the image above, our DVD is drive D and the Corsair USB drive is E.
Open the command prompt with admin rights. Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Shift+Ctrl+Enter.
To keep things really easy, if you see text in THIS COLOUR, it means this is what you type into the command prompt (you don’t need to type in upper case).
Next type
DISKPART
this loads the diskpart application we need to proceed
Then type
LIST DISK
the image above shows our 32GB USB drive is listed as DISK 2
so type
SELECT DISK 2 (your USB Drive may have a different number, don’t blindly follow this text)
You will get a successful response “Disk 2 is now the selected disk”
Next we want to clean the USB drive
Key in
CLEAN
you will get a successful response ‘DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk”.
After the drive is cleaned follow the list in the image above (detailed below in list order) – you can also note the successful text responses from the OS as you enter each command.
SELECT DISK 2 (or whatever number your USB drive is)
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
Formatting can take a little time depending on the size of the drive, our 32GB unit took about 10 minutes to format - you will see a percentage readout until it is finished.
Next key
ASSIGN
EXIT (we need to leave DISK PART)
Type D: CD BOOT (substitute the “D” if necessary with the letter of your Windows 7 DVD drive)
then key
CD BOOT
then
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E: (substitute the “E” if necessary with the letter of your now ready USB drive) – we are telling the system to create a bootsector file on the USB drive.
Now you can exit the command prompt and copy all the files on the Windows 7 DVD to the USB drive.
Once this completes you are ready to boot from this drive, all you need to do is configure your motherboard bios to boot first from USB rather than hard drive or optical drive. If you don’t know how to do this, refer to your specific motherboard manual (its generally a simple one click procedure).
Hey presto, Windows 7 installation should take between 33% and 60% of the time it does from the DVD disc. This is also a great way to test the speed of your USB drives if you have a few. We have recorded gains of up to 15 minutes between various makes and models. All are certainly not created equal!
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