If you remember, we had mentioned in one of our recent posts that we increased the speed of our editorial site by 100 times. That's right, 100 times! So what is the secret? How did we do it? Well, actually there's the short answer and the long answer.

For all you impatient folks out there, the short answer first: We put extremely long processes (like sending email) into the background and returned the page without waiting for its result!

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We have been absent from writing articles for some time now because we were working on improving the Golbin! experience. For both viewers and story-tellers! So lets see what's new in Golbin!:

• Load comments via ajax: This feature will load comments in a lazy fashion; that is, after the whole page has been loaded. Because of this, the page-load-time (as seen by search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo!, etc) will improve and give Golbin! a better SEO ranking.
• Threaded comments: Viewers can now reply to existing comments, or add fresh new comments of their own. We hope that this will increase viewer engagement. Not only via interaction within themselves, but even the story-teller will be able to respond to particular comments and have a meaningful, relevant and easy-to-follow conversation!
• Page backgrounds: Story-tellers can now define a custom image for all of their pages (story pages, and author page) and make their stories more beautiful and attractive for viewers. Also, this will help them distinguish themselves from other story-tellers, and portray their personality more effectively!
• Improved editorial site performance: Last, but not least, we made some performance improvements to the editorial site. This small change alone brought the page timings down from 3 seconds to 30 milliseconds, an improvement of 100x!

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I have this (weird?) habit of collecting sentences – quotes, proverbs, and the like. Any time i read something interesting anywhere, be it a book, blog or a magazine, or even a billboard, anything really, i note it down into my small (about 550+ lines long now) file of quotes. I also have a small program i wrote more than 5 years ago that shows me 1 line from the file everyday, and also sets it as my messenger status and email signature.

Anyways, a few days ago, i read the following quote:

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I was listening to a radiolab episode a few days ago when I stumbled upon the words "lucid dreaming". It piqued my curiosity and I looked it up only to find very interesting things about it. So what is "lucid dreaming"? To quote dreamviews.com

A lucid dream is a dream in which you know you are dreaming. Typically this happens when the dreamer experiences something strange, and when they stop to question their reality, they realize they are in a dream. Lucid dreams happen naturally on occasion, although some people may have them naturally more often than others.

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First, things keep changing continuously in the Linux world. Secondly, configurations differ, ergo YMMV ;)

With that out of the way, lets attack the main issue. Thing is, i spent a total of 6 hours trying to get virtualbox guest additions to work my Sabayon Linux guest on a WindoZZZe-7 host :((

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