Just to provide a hopped-up-on-goofballs anecdata point.

I think we need more anecdata like this.

OK, I have an HTML question:

I'm playing around with the jquery jsTree control. What I want to do is have the jsTree control expand as the user clicks on nodes to expand them, and if it expands to be bigger than its allocated size I want it to overlay whatever is below it.

This is part of my test page:

<table>
<tr>
    <td>
        <div id="treeViewDiv" style="height: 100px; overflow:visible; z-index: 2">
        </div>
        
    </td>
</tr>
<tr>    
    <td>
This is some plain text (no tags) in a new row after the "treeViewDiv".	
    </td>
</tr>
</table>	

(eta: The jsTree control is placed in the div by javascript.)

When I run this, the jsTree control does not force the next row of the table down (which is correct) but it does not overlay the row beneath it. What am I missing?

I tried adding a z-index setting to the style, but it didn't help.

eta²:

Fuck. This works correctly in Chrome but not IE 8.

eta: GOT IT WORKING! It's a bug in IE. The workaround is to add 'position:relative' to the style.

Is there any reason I shouldn't jump on this Groupon?

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I know Westinghouse isn't a great brand, but for that price it seems like I could replace it in a year and not feel too bad...

Can you go look at the picture quality of that TV in a store? That's a great price. (I just paid $550-ish for a 42" LG 1080p 120 HZ TV.)

Hm, maybe. Depends on how fast they sell out.

Also, I don't have an extra $349 right now. If I did I'd use it to replace the Tivo that's still giving me the grey screen of death once a week.

Westinghouse isn't a great brand and Amazon has it for $399, so you're not really saving much.

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Damn, for a second there, I thought Jessica was getting a talking internet fridge, or something

Sad now.

Okay, this is something I'd kinda not been paying attention to, because even though I do a lot of the SSL purchasing and arrangement of installation for my company, we don't have a choice of vendors, so knowing the difference between them wasn't important.

What the FUCK is the difference between, say, a Verisign and a GeoTrust cert? Why is there such a huge variation in costs for what seems to be the same scope? Are they doing anything differently, or is it really, as I read somewhere, name brand and "my browser bar is green" that demands extra dosh?

We have some huge gaps in subject matter expertise and I'd rather have your guys' high level knowledge before I talk to the other domain-working people and ask them questions.

(gaps like when I ask "Who's our IIS SME?" I'm answered by "The person who set up all our corporate websites." "I AM THAT PERSON. Who is the IIS SME who actually knows anything about IIS?" (my answers are usually "Apache can do that, so I assume IIS will too, but I don't know where or how easily.")

So I just got a new computer--a Raspberry Pi. It costs $39.99.

I have it connected to my TV via HDMI. It's running a version of Debian. I'm using the Midori browser for this post.

I'm amazed at how fast it is, given how cheap it is.

Memory? Peripherals? SSL?