Brave New World

OK, "Brave New World" Title is a little exaggerating; but the thing is, I can't stand the glitches in modern technology. Or at least some of the glitches.

Starting in my own backyard (see it on the right):

My Blog layout is broken in IE6. It is a standard, choosable layout at this host. Guess what, it is not broken in FireFox.

Have you ever wondered why you cannot "upload" an image to a website (like images to this weblog), really simply? No, doing it through "normal" file upload is not simple, not simple enough for me. You cannot drag and drop images. You cannot paste. Even if you could, for the web, it is neccessary to format the image (make it smaller). And create a thumbnail maybe. All these functions are "missing" from the everyday workings of the net. So what do you need to do? Screenshot something. Save it into a file, and convert it, make it small. Upload it (ftp or http). Also, if not supported, you have to make a thumbnail, with a tool or manually.

Joel tries to solve this glitch (which has security, copyright, and historical reasons, why it is not simple - but if I position myself as a simple user, heck, I don't care, handling images on the net is dumb, which is ridiculous) in his software FogBugz.

(Sidenote: Why this thing doesn't check a given link for me? When I type a http link, I have to check manually in my post to see if it links to a valid address.)

While browsers use adaptive UI, there are sites, which are trying to lock into a given font size. They are unreadable for me on my big flat panel. IE sticks to the spec of the page, and does not change the directly given font size. FireFox is better, it changes the font size, and also, IE's font sizes is a five-list, FireFox can increase font size over that.

Today's brand new gadget site, recommended by Scoble, Skobee, starts with a broken submit button on the opening page in IE6. And after I type into the textbox (which is a standard html text button, only with custom style) I cannot mark text with the mouse... WTF? (And the funny thing is: they are recommended by Scoble, whose job is... well go and let's find it for yourself.)

Verdict? Html is flawed, net is flawed, all this technology is a bloody mess sometimes.

Microsoft SQL 2000 - Profiler Help

I am trying to trace down some connection related issues on MS SQL 2000 Server. I am using SQL Profiler. I try to figure out how to monitor opening and closing connections.

At the "Trace Properties", you get the following "Available event classes":

Cursors, Database, Errors and Warning, Locks, Objects, Performance, Scans, Security Audit, Server, Stored Procedures, Transactions, TSQL, User Configurable

As I try to find values (events) regarding connection handling, I press F1 and look at the possible event classes and their Descriptions (same is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adminsql/ad_mon_perf_6koi.asp)

Possible categories:

Cursors, Database, Errors and Warnings, Locks, Objects, Performance, Scans, Security Audit, Sessions, Stored Procedures, Transactions, TSQL, User Configurable

Help says Sessions, reality shows Server... Description of Sessions: "Collection of event classes produced by clients connecting to and disconnecting from an instance of SQL Server."

(And Server category has only one element in it: Server Memory Change.)

Just so great ;)