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Who has two thumbs and won't be voting republican anytime soon?
That's a story which then goes on to note that 60 percent of the same cohort believes that the GOP puts "too little" emphasis on government spending and 60 percent say it puts too little on "economy and jobs."
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This is a good overview of common configurations comparing nginx's syntax to apache's. Once you get used to it, I think nginx syntax is easier to understand, and it reads more like an actual script or program. I've been using nginx to host SoccerBlogs.net for 3 months now and its been very solid. In fact, it coupled with moving mysql to its own slice, forced me to focus some attention on SQL query bottlenecks.
Nginx has a major limitation in rewrite rules in that you cannot impose multiple conditions for a rewrite rule. Apache HTTPD on the other hand provides a good solution using multiple RewriteCond directives. Nginx on the other hand allows if statement. You can have rewrite rules within if blocks. However the if block themselves are limited. You do not have and or or to add multiple conditions to a single if block. Also you cannot nest if blocks. There are no else statement either. However you can use regular expressions so the following is possible:
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This super-early look at Internet Explorer baffles me. The biggest benefit they tout is using the DirectX APi to use hardware acceleration for rendering web pages faster. This is like buying me a faster processor and then giving the credit to IE when pages load faster as a resutl.
Wouldn't a good Window Manager offload that work so that applications don't deal with it? It must be the only way to catch up to Chrome on Linux.
At the PDC today, in addition to demonstrating some of the progress on performance and interoperable standards, we showed how IE and Windows will make the power of PC hardware available to web developers in the browser. Specifically, we demonstrated hardware-accelerated rendering of all graphics and text in web pages, something that other browsers don't do today. Web site developers will see performance gains and other benefits without having to re-write their sites.