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 ....
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.
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 ...
... and is your web site going to be Web 2.0?
I just did a google search for Web 2.0 and it came back with 184,000,000 hits for "Web 2.0". That is almost twice as much as the word porn (98,000,000 for porn), which as we all know is one of the driving factors for the web in general.
My ISP is Comcast, and after years of nosebleed inducing DSL service (which was due to the crappy phone lines in the building I live in, and not my provider or DSL in general) I have to say that I am really happy with the level of service comcast has provided me with so far.
Last night there was a service outage, however, and it told me so when I called their support hotline.
Great, now that I enabled anonymous commenting on my site, I drown in a deluge of porn spam comments. I just disabled unmoderated anonymous commenting.
I wonder what next. I mean, web comment spamming is an old hat already, but will this ever stop? Will the spammers figure out a way to attach spam to pictures next? Oops, hope I didn't give them an idea.
Anyhow, the only way to stem the spam tide was if people categorically refused to buy products advertised via spam. That way spamming would become a liability, rather than a viability.
OK, I will dream on ....
In case people actually come here to read my blog, I wanted to share the following fact I found out myself recently and wish I had known about.
Running into trouble with PowerPC only applications I started researching what this Rosetta thing is all about.
Finally.
Even though I have nothing to do with ATT, or need to access their call center, I am somewhat glad that one behemoth of a company decided, for whatever reason, to bring back (part) of their call center.
Recently (well, a couple of months ago) I finally decided to rent a server at a large co-location server farm (serverpronto.com) and picked Debian as the Linux distro of choice.
After a while I wanted to setup the new server as a DNS slave, which wasn't as hard as I had expected. But when it came to stoping or restarting the bind daemon on that box, I always got
rndc: connect failed: connection refused
even though I was sure that I had configured my named.conf and rndc.conf files correctly, and the file permissions were correct as well.