This guide is outdated. Please check out the updated version of this guide here. On any system that I plan to use for an extended period of time, I will always install Cygwin. This is mainly because I like have UNIX tools on Windows, and also so that I can use the console to do…
Category: Nerdy Stuff
Google Talk/Google IM
Google has come out with their instant messaging program. This seems to be unofficial; the only mentions I can see are on this Slashdot article, and the website I linked to. You should be able to get it to work using any Jabber client. I’ve been trying to get it to work on Trillian, but…
Mailserver troubles
I was running portupgrade -a on my FreeBSD machine when I discovered some problems. The first problem had to do with the size of my mail queue. I kept getting a “452 Insufficient system storage” message from Microsoft Outlook, along with an error code of 0x800CCC0F. I am running Postfix, and so had to edit…
innerHTML alternative for XHTML documents in Firefox
I finally figured out an alternative to using innerHTML for an XHTML document in Firefox.
innerHTML and createContextualFragment problems when Firefox renders XHTML
If any of you use Firefox, then you’ll have noticed that the “Preview Comment” feature doesn’t work anymore. It stopped working after I converted this site over to XHTML. Initially it worked (even though it validated as XHTML 1.1) because I was setting the mime-type to text/html. To make it completely compliant, I set the…
This site is XHTML 1.1 Valid
I finally got this site to validate! The folks over here were really helpful, and pointed out that I wasn’t assigning values to my objects’ style attributes properly. For example, I was doing: instead of: The second way is the correct way because it is important to specify units for your attributes. In addition, Firefox…
Live! Preview and XHTML Compatibility
I’ve added a new feature called “Live Preview”. You can see your comment as it will appear, right as you type it. I randomly just came up with the idea yesterday – I figured I could use the same code I have in place for the preview, for the Live Preview as well. I just…
Preview Button and no more Iframes
I have added a “Preview Comments” button to the comment submission form. So now, you’re able to preview your comments before submitting them. The preview will show you your comments exactly as they will appear (after they have been submitted). The other big thing is the removal of iframes. I thought iframes were really freaking…
w00t! Article accepted!
I got another article accepted by Slashdot. That brings it to a total of 3 articles accepted (out of 7 that I submitted). In all honesty though, the first few times I submitted articles, I submitted them to what I thought was the appropriate category, instead of submitting them to the index. Maybe that was…
Scrolling problems
I’m having some problems with my Javascript code when it comes to scrolling with the mouse-wheel. You have to focus out side the “content” for it to scroll properly, especially in journal entries where the content is really long. I have an idea in mind, but it involves restructing completely. I’m thinking of removing the…