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Internet Explorer + Frames = Headache
So lets say you have the following HTML snippet: <html> <frameset rows="20,*" border="0" frameborder="no"> <frame name="menu" src="menu_frame.html" scrolling="no" noresize="1"> <frame name="work_frame" src=""> </frameset> </html> First of all you would say: but frames are so 1998! And you would be right. Frames are outmoded, deprecated and a usability nightmare (because you can’t bookmark the exact state…
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Small Qemu tips
It’s official: Ubuntu has the best documentation out there. There is almost no problem for it you can’t fix by typing "Ubuntu [description of the problem]" or "Ubuntu [error message]" in your favorite search engine. For example, here you can find a very exhaustive documentation on installing Qemu and Kqemu (the Kqemu part is the…
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Windows XP High-Security Configuration
Update: I found out that SRP has some rather nasty limitations (including the ability to circumvent it even as a limited user) which makes much less effective than I initially thought. I still thing it is very useful, but please read the linked article and make your own judgement call. As I mentioned in a…
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Reading the fineprint in the documentation
Following the DokuWiki development mailing list, I saw the following changelog: Sun Apr 6 19:47:18 CEST 2008 Andreas Gohr * work around strftime character limit on parsing namespace templates FS#1366 I checked on the PHP documentation page (by the way, a quick tip: you can access the documentation for a given PHP function by appending…
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Distributed version control systems – why?
Some time ago I finally had time to read the Subversion book and felt that all my questions were answered. I tried SVN many years back and failed miserably, but now I’m confident in my ability to use, install and maintain SVN. However there seems to be a new buzz about distributed versioning systems (like…
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A small warning about ptkdb
ptkdb is a GUI debugger (as opposed to the default console-based one) for Perl using the Tk toolkit for its windows. As far as I know it is one of the most advanced ones, discounting debuggers built into IDEs. An other advantage of it is its availability for many platforms (including Windows), including sources like…
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Circumventing the need for transactions in MySQL
While reading the excellent series on "Web 2.0" and databases on the O’Reilly radar blog it occurred to me that there is a nice trick with MySQL for making it semi-transactional (as a side-note: these days I have work with MySQL less and less and am fully enjoying the goodness that is PostgreSQL and pgAdmin).…