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I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by PeCaN »

scrollaway wrote: post #10
simcop2387 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the biggest reasons I read it is that it's the best place I've found for news about Mesa, Wayland, and other Linux graphics support topics.

The guy scours a lot of mailing lists and posts about small releases and such. There isn't much content, but I've had phoronix in my rss reader for the titles alone; it's nice to be informed about that stuff.

Sometimes he does quite good in-depth articles (such as his Talos Workstation preliminary benchmarks[1]) but mostly it's a nice site to avoid having to scour mailing lists to hear about cool new stuff.

1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-wor...

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by yarou »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #4

I've been surfing around on the (slow) site for about two minutes now, and I still can't tell exactly what "Phoronix" is. Having the short attention span typical of my folk, at three minutes I'll close the tab and move on.

Interesting.

You couldn't spend more than 3 minutes on the site, yet I'm sure you spent plenty of time coming up with your (in your mind) witty comment adding no substance whatsoever to the conversation.

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by rubbingalcohol »

yarou wrote: post #12
CamperBob2 wrote: post #4

I've been surfing around on the (slow) site for about two minutes now, and I still can't tell exactly what "Phoronix" is. Having the short attention span typical of my folk, at three minutes I'll close the tab and move on.

Interesting. You couldn't spend more than 3 minutes on the site, yet I'm sure you spent plenty of time coming up with your (in your mind) witty comment adding no substance whatsoever to the conversation.

I agree with your sentiment.

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by CamperBob2 »

yarou wrote: post #12
CamperBob2 wrote: post #4

I've been surfing around on the (slow) site for about two minutes now, and I still can't tell exactly what "Phoronix" is. Having the short attention span typical of my folk, at three minutes I'll close the tab and move on.

Interesting. You couldn't spend more than 3 minutes on the site, yet I'm sure you spent plenty of time coming up with your (in your mind) witty comment adding no substance whatsoever to the conversation.

More of an indirect way of suggesting that basic presentation and marketing skills are more important than whoever runs the site evidently thinks.

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by sleepychu »

minaguib wrote: post #7

I work in ad tech, and indeed some areas and experiences are less-than-optimal, especially in RTB. Unless the site owner is selling highly-custom take-overs, skins or other non-standard formats, ad interference with site content and layout is almost entirely eliminated via the use of iframes.

I consider iframes to be basically the most egregious ad insert.

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by cmdrfred »

minaguib wrote: post #7

I work in ad tech, and indeed some areas and experiences are less-than-optimal, especially in RTB. Unless the site owner is selling highly-custom take-overs, skins or other non-standard formats, ad interference with site content and layout is almost entirely eliminated via the use of iframes.

Even better throw the sandbox[0] tag on it and then, allow scripts only if there is no other option.

[0]http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/sandboxed-if...

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by cmdrfred »

sleepychu wrote: post #15
minaguib wrote: post #7

I work in ad tech, and indeed some areas and experiences are less-than-optimal, especially in RTB. Unless the site owner is selling highly-custom take-overs, skins or other non-standard formats, ad interference with site content and layout is almost entirely eliminated via the use of iframes.

I consider iframes to be basically the most egregious ad insert.

You are being downvoted because you can make iframes seamless[0]. Unless you are looking at the source you won't even know it's an iframe.

https://jsfiddle.net/yms8ftyw/1/

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by mikekchar »

simcop2387 wrote: post #6
news_to_me wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix It's been around for a while, and is pretty well known articles related to Linux, hardware, and benchmarking. While I'm not especially interested in a lot of the topics they cover, I still think it's a valuable resource.

One of the biggest reasons I read it is that it's the best place I've found for news about Mesa, Wayland, and other Linux graphics support topics.

Yeah, I've actually used it as my main source for keeping track of Mesa progress. It's really useful. It may sounds stupid, but I didn't know he had a "premium" version. I should send him some of the bitcoins I mined when you could still mine with CPUs...

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by imron »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #4

I've been surfing around on the (slow) site for about two minutes now, and I still can't tell exactly what "Phoronix" is. Having the short attention span typical of my folk, at three minutes I'll close the tab and move on.

If only you'd kept reading the linked article:

this site that publishes thousands of original articles per year and is the only place to find extensive Linux benchmarks, graphics driver news, and more

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