Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!nntpswitch.blueworldhosting.com!not-for-mail Content-Type: Text/HTML; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:53:34 -0800 (Seattle) Message-ID: References: Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: StatCounter doesn't work, sorry.  User-Agent: Jeff-Relf.Me/X.HTM X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueworldhosting.com Organization: BWH Usenet NNTPSwitch-Cluster Lines: 82 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:53:31 -0600 X-Trace: 9aea35477ab6bec90b8a626155 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:269391 
 
@snit, I watched:

  * OS / Word Processor Comparison:   <http://youtu.be/w6Qcl-w7s5c>
  * Mint MATE Trash, Panel, Menu:     <http://youtu.be/C0y74FIf7uE>
  * Mint KDE working with folders:    <http://youtu.be/7C9nvniOoE0>
  * Mint KDE general navigation:      <http://youtu.be/t9y14yZtQuI>

I was impressed with the quality and effort you put into it;
but I don't use Desktop Linux, so I have no further comment.

I think you're -very- well educated, very literate.
While I appreciate that, still, we're quite different, you and I;
I'm more into programming, you're more into "general education".

You told me:
> For text and images PNGs will serve you best.

Right, I agree, thanks for helping me realize that.
We agree on something ! !  Imagine that.

You replied to me:
> > 27 people ?  Are you sure ?
> > I -never- get numbers like that, never.
> > I'm lucky if one person sees it, much less 5.
> 
> I am often surprised by how many people actually read COLA and click my
> links. There are lurkers apparently. I rarely check the actual file hits
> with my host (though they are available), I mostly use the StatCounter stuff
> that relies on JavaScript. If people have a blocker I do not see them. So be it.

StatCounter doesn't work, sorry.

I take the raw logs, filter out the bots, and look at that.
For me, bots outnumber humans 5 to 1, or some such.

And the bots are hard to filter out.
Bots pretend to be humans, and people hide their identities.

When a visitor is obviously human, well identified,
with a resonable IP address ( I check )... 
then, and only then, do I count it as "a hit".

It's a fine art, and it requires much manual effort;

> > X.EXE needs that final slash; to wit:
> > 
> >   tmp.gallopinginsanity.com/OSXZoom/
> >   [ Not: tmp.gallopinginsanity.com/OSXZoom ]
> 
> Hmmm, I did not think any would care about the final slash. Odd.

FireFox just redirects; X.EXE should too, I suppose.

If it's a folder, and not a file, you need the slash.
"OSXZoom" is not a file.

> > "command-+" seems more awkward than Ctrl·Wheeling.
> 
> If Ctrl+wheel was not already set up for zooming the full screen I might set
> mine to that. As I noted elsewhere, though, the wheeling does not give you
> smaller increments.
> 
> I rarely zoom but, to see if I like it,
> I might [ set Ctrl+wheel to ] zoom in and out in Safari.

Suppose you want larger text everywhere, all the time,
whenever you reboot... how do you do that ?

In Win8, you change the "eb,ff,ff,ff" ( 0xffeb, -21 pixels high ), below,
merge it with the registry, and then reboot.
It's more fucked up than Desktop Linux... oh well.

From: "Jeff-Relf.Me/Win_8_.REG.TXT":

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
  ;  This sets font sizes but, sadly, not the font faces.
  ; "DejaVu LGC Sans Mono", -25 px, 96 (185) dpi ( 2160 x 3840, 24 Inch, scaled 150% ).
  ;  Defined in "struct tagLOGFONT".
  ; "CaptionFont"=hex:e7,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,\

  "CaptionFont"=hex:eb,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,\