I looked around a bit and this [link] looks promising.

Huh. That kinda' clever. I was thinking you could change the name of the css each time you want it to refresh, but figured that would be too much of a PITA.

Ooh thanks.

Very clever! One of the commenters had a good idea to further this: make the version # a php variable containing the date stamp of the css file. Then you never have to update the css link.

That won't work for the board, but I might be able to force a reload right after the file is updated and saved, and hopefully that takes.

That won't work for the board

Why not?

Well, I don't want to do a file date/time read every time a page loads. Overhead.

So, I overstated. Can work. Don't think it's our best solution.

I'm pissed that what should work, the http headers, does not.

Right now I think asking the user to refresh one page is clunky but overall better.

Overhead

Ahh, makes sense.

Sudo Make Me a Sandwich: the robot edition

Inspired by one of the funniest goddamned XKCD strips of all time, Bre Pettis and Adam Cecchetti have built a "Sudo make me a sandwich robot" that makes a sandwich when you tell it to.

I like what happens when they don't include the "sudo".

Interesting article about netbooks - I didn't know they are far more popular outside of the US....

The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time

By the end of 2008, Asustek had sold 5 million netbooks, and other brands together had sold 10 million. (Europe in particular has gone mad for netbooks; sales there are eight times higher than in the US.) In a single year, netbooks had become 7 percent of the world's entire laptop market. Next year it will be 12 percent.

"We started inventing technology for the bottom of the pyramid," Jepsen says, "but the top of the pyramid wants it too." This bit of trickle-up innovation, this netbook, might well reshape the computer industry—if it doesn't kill it first.

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Nearly every company in the PC industry has had its game plan uprooted by netbooks. Microsoft had intended to stop selling Windows XP this summer, driving customers to its more lucrative Vista operating system. But when Linux roared out of the gate on netbooks, Microsoft quickly backpedaled, extending XP for another two years—specifically for netbooks. Most experts guess that Redmond can charge barely $15 for XP on a netbook, less than a quarter of what it previously sold for. (Microsoft corporate vice president Brad Brooks assures me the company is earning "good money" on the devices and plans to make sure its next OS, Windows 7, can run on netbooks—Vista performs poorly on them.) For its part, Intel is selling millions of its low-power Atom chips to netbook manufacturers. "We see this as our next billion-dollar market," says Anil Nanduri, Intel's technical marketing manager—except that the company makes only a fraction of the money on an Atom chip as on a more powerful Celeron or Pentium in a full-size laptop.

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The decision is probably out of American hands. Indeed, living in the US—where netbooks are only just taking off—it can be hard to grasp just how popular the devices have become in Europe and Asia and the degree to which they're already altering the landscape. As Shih told me, "I was talking to the chair of one of the major Taiwanese notebook manufacturers, and he said, 'This is where my next billion customers comes from.' And he was not referring to the US." He meant the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China—where billions of very price-conscious customers have yet to buy their first computer. And the decisions they make—Windows or Linux? Microsoft wares or free cloud apps?—will have enormous influence on how computing evolves in the next few years.