Comments on: Sybase UPDATEs taking forever/timing out? Time to dump tran! http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/09/sybase-updates-taking-forevertiming-out-time-to-dump-tran/ This is a repository for my favorite scripts, regexes, commandlines, utilities, code snippets, tips, and other geeky things that might be useful to someone googling for an obscure solution some day. It's also a place to share my thoughts about companies I've dealt with, my favorite lifehacks, observations of interesting human behavior, clever and/or evil marketing schemes I've run across, and anything else I feel compelled to write about. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:14:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: ClintJCL http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/09/sybase-updates-taking-forevertiming-out-time-to-dump-tran/#comment-412 ClintJCL Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:09:23 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/09/sybase-updates-taking-forevertiming-out-time-to-dump-tran/#comment-412 Oh yea, once upon a time AllMusic had useful URLs. It might not have been as easy as /Bandname/, but they were LINKS to actual STATIC urls. If you saw 5 albums listed, you could open all 5 links in new windows, then cycle through the tabs -- how i ALWAYS surf the web, i REFUSE to sit there while a page loads. Then they changed it so that all links are javascript, so if you open a link in a new window/tab, you just have "javascript:asdfasdfasdf()" in your addressbar, no page, so you have to do everything in one window, waiting for load-times each page refresh, i hate it, and i bitched them out. I also bitched out www.tvtome.com when they stopped having /showname/ type URLs. then tvtome becamse tv.com and just went completely to hell. but now they've added back SOME showname URLs on tv.com... Oh yea, once upon a time AllMusic had useful URLs. It might not have been as easy as /Bandname/, but they were LINKS to actual STATIC urls.

If you saw 5 albums listed, you could open all 5 links in new windows, then cycle through the tabs — how i ALWAYS surf the web, i REFUSE to sit there while a page loads.

Then they changed it so that all links are javascript, so if you open a link in a new window/tab, you just have “javascript:asdfasdfasdf()” in your addressbar, no page, so you have to do everything in one window, waiting for load-times each page refresh, i hate it, and i bitched them out.

I also bitched out www.tvtome.com when they stopped having /showname/ type URLs. then tvtome becamse tv.com and just went completely to hell. but now they’ve added back SOME showname URLs on tv.com…

]]> By: spugbrap http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/09/sybase-updates-taking-forevertiming-out-time-to-dump-tran/#comment-409 spugbrap Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:09:20 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/09/sybase-updates-taking-forevertiming-out-time-to-dump-tran/#comment-409 Really? I don't remember allmusic ever having useful URLs. I always wished they had simple URLs, like epguides.com. It's nice that you can still go to http://www.epguides.com/ShowName, and it usually works. I remember you complaining to them when they changed things, at some point, so I thank you for helping to keep that site usable. Really? I don’t remember allmusic ever having useful URLs. I always wished they had simple URLs, like epguides.com. It’s nice that you can still go to http://www.epguides.com/ShowName, and it usually works. I remember you complaining to them when they changed things, at some point, so I thank you for helping to keep that site usable.

]]> By: ClintJCL http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/09/sybase-updates-taking-forevertiming-out-time-to-dump-tran/#comment-404 ClintJCL Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:21:42 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/09/sybase-updates-taking-forevertiming-out-time-to-dump-tran/#comment-404 I hate it when sites use javascript to obfuscate good static links. AllMusic pulled some similar crap way back then. They told me to hold down shift when I clicked on links. Lame. Once upon a time, I could go straight to a band's discography via a command-line-guessed URL... I hate it when sites use javascript to obfuscate good static links. AllMusic pulled some similar crap way back then. They told me to hold down shift when I clicked on links. Lame. Once upon a time, I could go straight to a band’s discography via a command-line-guessed URL…

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