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[challenge entry] How to save on your electric bill


Oh, the pun!

From the Make up stuff to sell on Ebay challenge. See all 336 entries (closed)

(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:30, archived)
# hehehe
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:32, archived)
# *groans*





*dies*
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:32, archived)
# *opens up ebay*
*starts pricing up 100% kittens clothes*
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:33, archived)
# get my best dress off!
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:34, archived)
# *looks up from make-up mirror*
i thought you were dead.
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:35, archived)
# *attacks with rolling pin*
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:41, archived)
# play nicely you two
*gives 100pcg a chinese burn and pulls 100% Kitten's ponytails*
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:44, archived)
# *twangs bleepbloop's pants*
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:51, archived)
# *charges towards bleepbloop wielding blunderbuss, whilst using £1000,000 bukkake guard for protection*
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:52, archived)
# Self-TJ
To the Masters of b3ta.
Why not include some sort of "Refresh" link that simply links to the board?
If I understand correctly, people doing "Refresh" or F5 will have all the images reloaded too, with quite a waste of bandwidth/time...
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:33, archived)
# because it caches the images so it doesn't cause problems to refreshers
and a button like that would eat up the b3ta bandwidth
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:34, archived)
# I am not sure...
I did some experimetns, and F5 seems to hit a second time my server's logs.
But maybe it was just an HTTP HEAD command... dunno.
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:36, archived)
# ctrl f5 complete reloads.
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:42, archived)
# true!
someone on here has list of all IE shortcuts in their profile!!
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:43, archived)
# ??
At least in Netscape, I see no difference between F5 and CtrlF5.
Will experiment more...
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:45, archived)
# I believe in netcrap
shift-F5 is the equivalent of interweb exploder's ctrl-F5
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:49, archived)
# it's usually a normal GET + if-modified-since headers...
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 23:08, archived)
# Yeah, I agree
It would be nice to have a 'live' version of the board, which works more like live chat.
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:38, archived)
# but then your reading something and poof
its gone besides someone made a page like that a while ago!
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 22:41, archived)
# F5 (normal reload) will in most browsers
re-request the page, and then request the images IF they have changed since last requested (if-modified-since / e-tag headers).

A click on a link to an already downloaded page that has proper headers set (no-cache etc.) will reload the page, but will probably NOT re-request the images. This will reduce the bandwidth for the image servers, but only by about a 300 bytes per request or so, assuming the webservers for the images are well-behaved. Ofcourse 300 bytes x 10,000 unnessisary requests per image is still 3Mb per image..

You can check this on firefox if you have HTTP headers plugin (not installed now, sorry).
(, Sun 18 Jul 2004, 23:06, archived)