Install/Upgrade to Leopard in Target Disk Mode

jhm – Mon, 2008 – 08 – 25 09:11

Earlier this year I was faced with the challenge to upgrade a Mac Book Pro to Leopard, the machine in question would not read the Leopard DVD, however. What to do, go back to the Apple store and lament the oddity?

Well, fortunately I had a second Mac Book Pro from work which I upgraded prior and which could read the DVD just fine, which also told me that the DVD media itself wasn't to blame.

I remembered that you can hook up two Apple computer, using the disk of the other computer by booting it in Firewire Target Mode. Doing that I was able to use the DVD drive of the computer that was able to read the Leopard DVD media and kick off an installation on the disk in the other computer.

NPR: Wait Wait Don't Tell me and clippy

jhm – Wed, 2008 – 07 – 09 13:41

IE6 keeps giving ...

jhm – Tue, 2008 – 06 – 03 19:33

A friend just told me a nice little "easter egg" of IE6 that is doggone hard to debug when one doesn't know about Redmond's little secrets plot to make a web developers life hell (me conspiracy theorist? never!)

Turns out that IE6 has a css file limit per page that kicks in with the 32nd file, where it simply doesn't seem to read the contents of the file. And if you are mindful of this and slap all your CSS into less than 32 files, the beast still gets you by the nuts because there also is a total CSS size limit.

Go do yourself a favor and download firefox ....

more details here

Newton Virus

jhm – Thu, 2008 – 03 – 06 09:57

This totally reminds me of the Amiga ...

iPhone sensory deprivation

jhm – Sat, 2008 – 02 – 09 20:30

After having had an iTouch for a couple of months, I couldn't deal with the regular cell phone user interface anymore (I caught myself swiping over the display to make my phone book scroll on my Motorola SLVR).

Cute Movie how we met

jhm – Thu, 2007 – 12 – 06 15:55

Another cute video on youtube.

Here Comes Another Bubble - The Richter Scales

jhm – Thu, 2007 – 12 – 06 15:52

Nice youtube video - if this guy's too old, what does that make me?

jquery href hover

jhm – Thu, 2007 – 09 – 20 13:22

Contrary to what you can find on the web, when trying to set the window.status when hovering over a link, you need to return false at the end of the hover function, otherwise the standard mouseover event is going to kick in overwrite your window.status

The following jQuery works

$('a').hover(function(){window.status=this.title?this.title:'';return false;},function(){window.status='';return false;})


If you return true, the window status is going to display the URL instead, which is the standard.

Dynamic zone manipulation

jhm – Wed, 2007 – 09 – 05 17:44

Some parameters of a zone can be modified while the zone is running

Comment Spam Curbed?

jhm – Sun, 2007 – 07 – 22 01:22

Since several weeks I require captch for comment posting, and voila, no more spam in my comments! Well, I don't get a lot of comments anyways, so I don't know if commenting on my crap is not possible at all, or ... oh heck, as long as the spammers can't comment I am happy. All you other people who wish to contact me, you know who I am and how to get a hold of me ...