buswellj - Slashdot User

Submission + - Long URLs wasting as much as 75MBps at Facebook (o3magazine.com)

Submitted by

Ryan McAdams

on Friday March 27, 2009 @03:06PM

Ryan McAdams writes: "Popular websites such as Facebook are wasting as much as 75MBit/sec of bandwidth due to excessively long URLs. According to this article over at o3magazine.com, they took a typical Facebook home page, the traffic statistics from compete.com and figured out the bandwidth savings if Facebook switched from using URL paths that in some cases over 150 characters in length with shorter ones. It looks at the impact on service providers, with the wasted bandwidth used by the subsequent GET requests for these excessively long URLs. Facebook is just one example, many other sites have similar problems, as well as CMS products such as Word Press. Takes an interesting approach to web optimization for high traffic sites."

Comment Re:RTFA (Score 1) 1972

by buswellj on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @09:33PM (#20488881) Attached to: Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License

People in Europe wonder how Bush got elected, you've just shown them exactly why. This foul mouth, uneducated smuck here is a prime example (that being you). Can't debate anything without throwing names around like fool, stupid, dumbass, and other foul language. You've really shown yourself to be a class act. :)

The guy was an IDIOT and got what he deserved because (something you don't seem to understand) is that he LACKED common sense. When you are done jumping around and screaming your little head off, go think about that. You are just some loud mouthed twit who probably spends their entire day (judging from your history) on slashdot instead of doing real work. Probably 14 or something, go ask your mommy for some soap to clean out your mouth! :)

Submission + - GPL Violations On Windows Go Unnoticed?

Submitted by Scott_F on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @03:36PM

Scott_F writes: I recently reviewed several commercial, closed-source slideshow authoring packages for Windows and came across an alarming trend. Several of the packages I installed included GPL and LGPL software without any mention of the GPL, much less source code. For example, DVD Photo Slideshow (www.dvd-photo-slideshow.com) included mkisofs, cdrdao, dvdauthor, spumux, id3lib, lame, mpeg2enc and mplex (all of which are GPL or LGPL). What's worse is that the company tried to hide this by wrapping them all in DLL's! There are other violations in other packages as well. It seems that use of GPL software in commercial Windows applications is on the rise based on my testing of other software. My question is how much are GPL violations in the Windows world being pursued? Does the FSF or EFF follow-up on these if the platform is not GPL? How aware is the community of this trend?

Slashdot Top Deals