links for 2009-05-30

"As athletic costs rise at a rate that the N.C.A.A. warns cannot be sustained, and as states continue to reduce spending on higher education, many athletic departments are seeking income beyond ticket sales, booster donations and television revenue to help stem the flow of red ink." I am so against the amount of money colleges spend on sports it's not even funny.

How do you guarantee uptime?

"FCKeditor is a powerful WYSIWYG editor that replaces the plain, old and boring textarea form element. It has file management functions (so you can upload images, flash and other files directly from it) and many more useful functions."

"In this case, a couple of customers burned something like 10 programmer-years worth of salary on unnecessary hardware, when the cost to optimize software was clearly an order of magnitude lower than the cost to compensate with hardware." Though even the author points out sometimes the hardware is cheaper than programmers.

How do you design your content for a Kindle?

"Let’s start from the top: the X-UA-Compatible header, which can be set as both an HTTP-level header or as a <meta> tag inside your HTML document, allows you to specify which rendering engine you want IE8 to use; setting it to IE=EmulateIE7 will tell IE8 to use the IE7 rendering engine; setting it to IE=8 will enforce the IE8 Standards Mode engine. It is designed to be forward-compatible, so a hypothetical IE9 will support it, as will an IE10, and so forth. If you want to simply enforce the latest and greatest engine in all currentand future versions of IE, you can set the X-UA-Compatible header to IE=Edge, which is the instruction to “always use the most cutting edge engine available”." Somewhat nice feature of IE8.

"hat would mean that the government had only actually spent between $18.1 billion and $19.6 billion of stimulus money when the quarterly report was issued." As opposed to $28.5 billion .

"If you’re expecting Bing to be a Google-killer, reset your expectations. The most dramatic change, in my view, remains the name itself." Nothing unique.

Oh darn.

If you didn't know Wesley Crusher now you do.