Gah. Suddenly my power supply for my Powerbook isn't making the lighty light. I can't tell if it's because it's not seated right or what. Pisser.
Hermanos! The devil has built a robot!
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§ ita § - Feb 20, 2006 4:53:20 pm PST #7152 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
evil jimi - Feb 20, 2006 6:34:45 pm PST #7153 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
::wants to quip about ita and a brazilian but fears the Wrath of She, so remains quiet::
Tom Scola - Feb 21, 2006 4:42:09 am PST #7154 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
New Vulnerability found in Apple Safari Browser.
Unlike the "worm" that appeared last week, this vulnerability is quite serious, and I would strongly urge everyone using Safari to disable the "Open 'safe' files after downloading" option like the article describes.
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2006 5:05:22 am PST #7155 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
On a web page, if you have a SELECT control that's been set to disabled, does it still respond to color settings in a style sheet? I mean, the actual font - I can still change the background color.
eta: I'm only concerned about IE 6.
eta²: OK, it appears that when a SELECT control is disabled, the font is gray and there's nothing you can do about it. For example:
<SELECT id="Select1" style="WIDTH: 191px; COLOR: red" name="Select1" disabled>
the red doesn't work. But if you take the 'disabled' away, it does.
dcp - Feb 21, 2006 9:42:24 am PST #7156 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I've been using ZoneAlarm, haven't had any problems.
I was wrong. I just updated my copy of ZoneAlarm and was reminded that I have to disable one of it's parts ("TrueVector" -- vsmon.exe) in Startup or else I have trouble with network connections, disk scan, and disk defragmenter.
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2006 12:12:31 pm PST #7157 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
le nubian - Feb 22, 2006 2:07:34 am PST #7158 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Tom Scola - Feb 22, 2006 2:22:37 am PST #7159 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Dvorak is an asshat. He regularly writes idiotic and highly speculative screeds that invariably turn out to be wrong, but increase his hit count in the short term.
le nubian - Feb 22, 2006 2:31:01 am PST #7160 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
...how do you really feel? :-)
Gudanov - Feb 22, 2006 4:37:08 am PST #7161 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Is there really going to be be that many versions of Windows Vista? I'll probably be using Vista at work, but I have no intention of using it at home. I wouldn't have Windows on my home computer at all if not for a bunch of Corel files that I can't convert and my video processing stuff.
Speaking of Windows Vista, I have heard that Microsoft is jacking around with the smb protocol to try to break Samba for Vista clients/servers. That would be pretty annoying for Linux and Mac OS X people.