I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.

Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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amych - Sep 22, 2010 1:08:36 pm PDT #14939 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

ita, you FONT COLORer you!


tommyrot - Sep 22, 2010 1:09:33 pm PDT #14940 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

HTML = model
CSS = view
JavaScript = controller

What do you do if you have formatting and Javascript in XML?


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2010 1:11:04 pm PDT #14941 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, come on. What's a t u between friends?


bennett - Sep 22, 2010 3:58:17 pm PDT #14942 of 25501

From a practical perspective, if you keep your structure (HTML) and style (CSS) separate, you know which file to edit when you have to go back 6 months later and change everything from blue to red. Speaking as someone who has spent more time than she'd like to think about trying to figure out just which file she needed to fix.


Toddson - Sep 22, 2010 4:14:56 pm PDT #14943 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Coming in late - tommyrot, if you really want to make table borders and rules disappear, you can set the color to match the background (white for my site's pages ... as I found out after a lot of aggravation).


Strix - Sep 23, 2010 5:12:38 pm PDT #14944 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Ok, anyone have any ideas? I have an emachine E627, and about two days ago, both of my USB ports stopped working. They appear to be working in the control panel, but if you plug anything into either one of them, nada.

Which completely sucks, since Dan's computer is not Linux based, and I can't connect my Touch or my external hard drive...where my resumes and 11 billion cover letter versions are.

Any ideas or advice? Obviously, I'm moving the external down to Dan's computer, so I can email my stuff to myself as a quickie, and I can burn a CD with all the other stuff, but I'd like to FIX it.

And we're broke.


DCJensen - Sep 23, 2010 6:52:01 pm PDT #14945 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

You are using what flavor Linux?


Strix - Sep 24, 2010 12:26:21 am PDT #14946 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I use windows; Dan's PC is Linux-based. And it's, um, chocolate-flavored? (I don't know.)


Gudanov - Sep 24, 2010 5:43:21 am PDT #14947 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

The first thing to do would be to try the rear USB ports and see if they work. If they do, then maybe you have a loose connection from the front ports to the motherboard. If you can't get the front ports working, then a cheap USB hub connected to a back port would take care of it.

After that, I'm sure Dan can burn a live Linux CD and boot the computer off of that. That way you can determine if the hardware has failed or if it's a software issue.

If it's a hardware failure, then the cheap solution would be a PCI card with USB ports, like this one.

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It has an internal header so you can plug the front ports into the card instead of the motherboard.

If it's a software issue, then probably remove the USB drivers and install the chipset driver.


tommyrot - Sep 24, 2010 7:30:56 am PDT #14948 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Here's what $200k speakers look like

Short answer: Pretty!

If you're in the Bill Gates tax bracket (and can avoid the proposed rescinding of the Bush tax breaks to pick up the extra dough you'll obviously need for these), act fast; there are only 100 pairs of the limited edition Muon, which KEF coyly calls "perhaps the most extraordinary audio speaker ever conceived." Perhaps? For nearly $200k, they'd better induce aural orgasms.

How do they sound? Got me. You don't actually drive a Rolls Royce Phantom in actual traffic, do you? As you can see in the picture, the Muon was actually roped off like a Michaelangelo sculpture. But there will be some folks with WAAAAAAY too much money who'll claim they can hear angels dancing on the heads of pins through them.