Archives / Search ›

Wednesday, 8 May 2002

A number of my friends who host with csoft.net have been complaining about the service recently. It's definitely, er, cheap. This morning I read they cut off Les Orchard's 0xDECAFBAD.

I use pair.com as my Web host and could not be happier. The cost is quite a bit higher than that of csoft.net, though, and I've heard sporadic complaints about their shared MySQL servers (which I do not use).

The upshot of all this is that for the best reliability, I still need to move this weblog onto my own site. Some day when I have more than 15 minutes to spare, perhaps. In the meantime, I've still got 94% of my 40 MB free.

* 10:20 AM | Radio
No Comments

Now I've made the changes below, form submission (clicking the 'Delete' button) also results in a new window opening. Need to fix somehow, hopefully in an elegant fashion. I wonder if CSS will work?

* 8:02 AM | Radio
No Comments

A great tip: I use Radio's News Aggregator and always open links in new windows (or new tabs), so the aggregator page remains visible. Sometimes I forget to Command-click a link, and end up replacing the aggregator page without intending to.

The post I linked to doesn't describe exactly how to modify Radio's templates, so here's one way to do it:

  1. In the www folder, insert as the first line of system/pages/news.txt:

    #meta “<BASE TARGET='_blank'>”

  2. Then, in #template.txt, add after the <head> tag:

    <% metaTags () %>

That's all! Now your News Aggregator will always open links in new windows, without you having to remember to click with the middle mouse button or while holding down modifier keys.

* 5:56 AM | Radio
No Comments

Tuesday, 7 May 2002

Wow, when did color laser printers become so cheap? I still had an outdated notion in my head that they cost around $5000 still. Take Minolta QMS's magicolor 2210: 128 MB RAM, 200 MHz R5000 processor, 20 ppm B&W/5 ppm color, 100 Mbps ethernet, PostScript 3, $1640. Sounds great, but a review mentioned: “Text prints are crisp and have no jaggedness, but color graphics appear washed out and fuzzy.”

I hope it's more reliable and bulletproof than the many QMS printers we have had in our department. From the high-volume black & white laser printers to the color lasers, they jammed constantly, and refused to process PostScript jobs that HP printers had no problems with.

* 2:42 AM | Radio
No Comments

Saturday, 4 May 2002

<UncleJed> So what is included in the new Developer Tools?
<UncleJed> I know it has betas of the new stuff, but is the release stuff
           still there as well?
<sabi> yes
<sabi> and ASS 1.1 is GM
<sabi> as is AS 1.8.2
<UncleJed> So is there any harm in me upgrading? 
<sabi> IB 2.2.1 is final, too.
<sabi> not really.
<RealCmdr> ASS?
<UncleJed> or are there even new versions of the other release stuff?
<sabi> ThreadViewer and Sampler are revised too
<UncleJed> Anal Stimulation Studio
<sabi> yup. :)
<sabi> worst. acronym. ever.
<CmdrKuehn> that's why mac developers are so happy
<CmdrKuehn> visual studio needs that.

* 2:49 PM | Radio
No Comments

‹ Newer Posts  •  Older Posts ›