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I'm trying to get a membership at the W3C. They make it sound daunting!
I spent all day yesterday redesigning my site. The server appears to be stuttery, right now, but I think that'll pass within the day. I'll eventually have to change hosts, but not until I'm making a much larger amount of cash.
I hadn't realized, but it had actually been awhile since I've created anything. I spent a tremendous amount of time learning about all sorts of different topics, and then I was working on the writing of my sites, but I hadn't done any sort of design for a while. Quite frankly, I was rusty: it took me a day to ponder around with my sidebar, even without being connected to the internet. I just couldn't work.
At about 6:00am, I gave up and went online. After that, I ended up deciding to completely redo my site, and did so. The graphics elements were still there, at least, so that was a few hours shaved off, but the rest of the redesign and upload and testing took until 10:00pm. I then slept for sixteen hours.
Today, I'm done all my web stuff in five hours, so I'm ready to go on something. I'm keeping a list of things that have to get done. I have to get stuff off my mom's old hard-drive, and finish what I can of my business plan, and maybe even do dishes.
Speaking of hard-drives:
I recently benchmarked my stuffs, and it seems my 10GB hard-drive is about the same speed as my flash drive. I had completely forgotten that old drives are slower, back when I put my OS on it.
Something is writing to my D: drive every second or two, and that's ruining my ability to run a proper benchmark. The one I had run before put it at a good speed, about 60 MB/s or so. The 10GB and my 8GB flash drive both are about 16 MB/s. A brand-new 64GB eSATA/USB flash drive (really, external hard-drive) would do up to 100 MB/s (or 30 MB/s, on USB). And so.
Moral of the story: Always get the newer tech. Also, the newest solid-state drives are faster than any hard-disk drive, even if they're a lot smaller for the same price. Still, all you need is 8 GB for your OS, and you can boot up your computer in half the time! One also shouldn't cost more than $30 or so.
(Edit: I found a good press-release for a Kingston SSD. It seems SSDs are only about four or ten times more expensive than HDDs. A Samsung 160GB HDD goes for about USD$65, which is only a quarter the price of the Kingston SSD. Let me also say that I trust Kingston with my money, because they've never given me any trouble and their stuff works beyond all expectations, given that they're pretty much the cheapest you can find. I think it's because they're a relatively newer company. The only other SSD I'd trust would be from Samsung or such.)
I spent all day yesterday redesigning my site. The server appears to be stuttery, right now, but I think that'll pass within the day. I'll eventually have to change hosts, but not until I'm making a much larger amount of cash.
I hadn't realized, but it had actually been awhile since I've created anything. I spent a tremendous amount of time learning about all sorts of different topics, and then I was working on the writing of my sites, but I hadn't done any sort of design for a while. Quite frankly, I was rusty: it took me a day to ponder around with my sidebar, even without being connected to the internet. I just couldn't work.
At about 6:00am, I gave up and went online. After that, I ended up deciding to completely redo my site, and did so. The graphics elements were still there, at least, so that was a few hours shaved off, but the rest of the redesign and upload and testing took until 10:00pm. I then slept for sixteen hours.
Today, I'm done all my web stuff in five hours, so I'm ready to go on something. I'm keeping a list of things that have to get done. I have to get stuff off my mom's old hard-drive, and finish what I can of my business plan, and maybe even do dishes.
Speaking of hard-drives:
I recently benchmarked my stuffs, and it seems my 10GB hard-drive is about the same speed as my flash drive. I had completely forgotten that old drives are slower, back when I put my OS on it.
Something is writing to my D: drive every second or two, and that's ruining my ability to run a proper benchmark. The one I had run before put it at a good speed, about 60 MB/s or so. The 10GB and my 8GB flash drive both are about 16 MB/s. A brand-new 64GB eSATA/USB flash drive (really, external hard-drive) would do up to 100 MB/s (or 30 MB/s, on USB). And so.
Moral of the story: Always get the newer tech. Also, the newest solid-state drives are faster than any hard-disk drive, even if they're a lot smaller for the same price. Still, all you need is 8 GB for your OS, and you can boot up your computer in half the time! One also shouldn't cost more than $30 or so.
(Edit: I found a good press-release for a Kingston SSD. It seems SSDs are only about four or ten times more expensive than HDDs. A Samsung 160GB HDD goes for about USD$65, which is only a quarter the price of the Kingston SSD. Let me also say that I trust Kingston with my money, because they've never given me any trouble and their stuff works beyond all expectations, given that they're pretty much the cheapest you can find. I think it's because they're a relatively newer company. The only other SSD I'd trust would be from Samsung or such.)