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jueves, junio 01, 2006

Firefox 1.5.0.4 released!

This hasn't made the front page of mozilla.com yet, but Firefox 1.5.0.4 has just been released. I've already updated; it fixes, among other things, the long-standing cut-and-paste issue.

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miércoles, mayo 31, 2006

IE7: The next Netscape

There is a saying among the web development community that IE6 is the new Netscape: The lousy browser that frustrates web developers. The browser is buggy, which web developers spend countless hours having to work around because too much of the marketplace uses the browser.

Well, it looks like IE7 is going to be the next Netscape. First, the good news: IE7 has somewhat better CSS support than IE6; we now have max-width:, for example (which is one less reason to use tables for layout). And IE finally supports PNG transparency. Now, the bad news: IE7 still has a lot of CSS bugs other modern browsers do not have. It's well known that IE7 is the only modern browser that doesn't render the round head in the ACID 2 CSS test (Opera 9 Beta, Safari, Konqueror, and iCab fully pass the test; Firefox has a CVS build that passes the test).

This is not just a theoretical problem. For example, some CSS objects do not have their widths correctly calculated in IE7; this makes "shrink to fit" CSS elements difficult. This is the bug in action:

Here is how the same CSS looks in Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror:

The workaround is to use some IE-specific code (using the <--[if IE]> syntax since all of the old CSS hacks don't work in IE7) to explicitly specify the width for the "Quick Links" box. For people who wish to see this bug for themselves, I have both the page that demonstrates the bug and the page with the workaround online.

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martes, mayo 30, 2006

How to network a cheap officejet printer in Windows

They say Windows is easier than Linux.  Yeah, right.

I will concede that Windows is easier to set up when used as a basic single-user web-and-word processing machine.  I will also concede that Windows XP Pro can run nicely on ancient hardware; it runs fine on my PII 450mhz/350 meg ram laptop, for example.  However, setting up file and print sharing in Windows XP Home is a royal pain in the wazoo.

I thought it would be as easy as right-clicking on the printer, going to sharing, and selecting "Share this printer".  Errr....no.

It was more like My computer -> Control Panel -> Classic View -> Network Connections -> Local Area Connection -> Properties -> Install -> Service -> File and print sharing for Microsoft Networks; followed by My computer -> Control Panel (now in Classic view) -> Network Connections -> Local Area Connection -> Properties -> TCP/IP -> Advanced -> Wins -> Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP.  Followed by My computer -> Control Panel -> System -> Computer Name -> Change (to put it in the MSHOME workgroup).  And disabling the firewall.  And so on.

Then the fun really began on the Windows 98 machine.  Same general idea, but needing a reboot for each change I made.  After pulling my hair out for over an hour (and very carefully following the directions on homenethelp.com), I got the network sharing working.

Then the fun really began.  It's not enough to just share a printer over a network.  Then I needed to set up a driver on the client machine.  Alas, the particular printer does not have a network compatible driver.  What I had to do was attach this printer to the network client, then, in the printer preferences, change the port to be a network connection.  Finally, since the driver thought the printer was offline (since it's a USB printer which I disconnected), I had to go to My Computer -> Printers -> Printer Name and enable "Use printer offline".  I also, for good measure, disabled the spooling (since the server already spools the print job), and rebooted again for good measure.

Everything works.  Finally.

Now, compres this to Linux, where basic (via web server) file sharing is as easy as "cp filename /var/www/htdocs; /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start" then getting the files as http://ip of machine/filename.

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sábado, mayo 27, 2006

Answer to that riddle going through the bulletins

The following riddle is making its way through people's bulletins:

I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.

I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.

I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.

I turn pancakes brown
and make your champagne bubble.

If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.

Can you guess the riddle?

97 percent of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84 percent of kindergarten
students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less.

Can you guess the correct answer?

The answer is "No", as in "No, I can not guess the answer".

Another reasonable answer that answers the poem is "Pressure". E.G. Evolutionary selective pressure makes polar bears white; emotional pressure makes you cry; pressure caused by liquid in your bladder makes you need to void it; social pressure makes girls comb their hair; acting under pressure can make celebrities look stupid; people can be heroic in high-pressure situations; pressurized gas heats a pancake on a gas stove; you pressurize carbon dioxide to add it to water to make a carbonated drink (such as champagne); squeezing something pressurized (such as a ballon) makes it pop; and going underwater too deep to look at the high-pressure water will make you pop.

And on that note, I'll listen to "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie.

- Sam

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martes, mayo 23, 2006

How to disable a Firefox annoyance

Firefox annoyance ..1: Middle-Clicking on the browser window opens up this idiotic keywords searching thing. This is, to put it mildly, annoying, since, in Linux, the middle mouse button means "Paste whatever is in the clipboard", so you end up getting a keyword search for whatever it is you meant to paste in to a message you were writing.

The way to disable this annoyance is to go to about:config, type in the incantation "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" in the filter in the top, and set this to false. Viola...pasting in the browser viewpane doesn't give you an annoying keywords search any more.

The next Firefox annoyance I would like to figure out how to kill is the dragging and droping of links or tabs. I never use this feature, it's buggy in Linux, and I've lost at least one myspace message I was writing because of this annoyance.

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viernes, mayo 19, 2006

Why English should not be the US's official, errr national language

Back in the 1910s and 1920s, a wave of xenophobia hit the United States in the wake of World War 1. People disliked Germans and anything that stood for German culture. The result of this xenophobia was draconian laws that made speaking in foreign languages in school illegal. The result was a disaster for the American education system: No foreign language instruction was allowed in public schools until high school. This has resulted in America having one of the worse foreign language programs in the world.

In Europe, it is very common for people to speak three of four languages fluently. In India, one almost always speaks at least three languages: Your native language, Hindi, and English. The United States, on the other hand, only has immigrants speaking anything besides English. This tunnel vision results in a serious shortcoming of our educational system here in the US.

English-only movements limit our ability to participate in an increasingly international marketplace, and places most Americans in a position where they can not truly appreciate nor respect the people who have worked very hard to learn a foreign language.

When we live in a country where Americans go to the heart of Mexico and are rude to people who do not speak perfect English, we first must learn to respect foreign languages and cultures before we become even more insular and cut off from the world.

Until it is mandatory in the US for someone to have reasonable proficiency in a foreign language to graduate from college (or, even better, high school), English-only laws in the US should be put on hold. Because otherwise, such English-only laws come off as little more than petty bigotry to the international community.

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jueves, mayo 18, 2006

Annoyance: Bulletin Spammers

Logging in to myspace this morning, I saw that my bulletin listing was spammed by the same four people again. I had 108 people on my friends' list and had 10 bulletins posted in the last 10 hours. As soon as I removed the four worse offenders, my bulletin count for the last 10 hours went down to a much more reasonable four bulletins.

To add insult to injury, two of these four habitual bulletin posters would never reply to personal messages that I sent them. I'm sorry; if my time is so unimportant to you that you won't reply to a message of mine, why should I take the time to read your stupid bulletins?

Indeed, one of these two worse offenders just last week posted one of those stupid "you'll never have sex again unless you repost this bulletin" messages. To quote my buddy Josh, posting that kind of bulletin is "like if your neighbor's dog had a bowel movement in your yard, and you call your friend and invite them over, and then when they get there hand them a paper towel and ask them to pick up your neighbor's dog's poop. Stop it."

One of the two remaining offenders is someone who changes their name before posting a new bulletin. I don't mind users who change their profile name frequently; I, however, do mind users who do so between posting bulletins. This is because the name that shows up on a bulletin is the name a user had when they posted the bulletin. When someone changes their name between bulletins, it makes it more difficult to look at my bulletin list to see that four of the five bulletins on the list are just more spam from Ms.-change-my-name-for-each-bulletin.

The final offender was a band whose music I don't care for and who I added only because I was in a good mood that day.

Guys, here's the deal: If you have something to say to a lot of people, use a blog to post it. Don't post it as a bulletin, because the only way I can not have your bulletins pollute my bulletin space is to delete you from my friend's list. Blogs, on the other hand, I can subscribe to and unsubscribe to at will.

P.S. One of the four bulletins after my purge was yet another you'll-have-bad-luck-for-seven-years-unless-you-repost-this bulletins. After flaming this person appropriately, I have removed yet another person from my friends list today.

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miércoles, mayo 17, 2006

Web standards rant

There are people out there who live in a fairy land where it is more important to render a web page to standards thank to real-world web browsers.  They think having a page validate is more important than having the page look good.  One of their rallying cries is the obviously false "If your page validates, you don't have to test it in browsers" (only true in an imaginary world where browsers don't have bugs).  Another one of their silly ralling crys is "If you don't design to the standards, you web page might break in the future!"

"Might" is the operative word here. Meanwhile, in the real world, Firefox, IE, and any other modern browser can render those old dot-com-era web sites just fine. They will also render without problem any of those obnoxious web sites designed in the late 1990s. You know, the ones with a lot of visible tables, 15 animated gifs, and a loud background texture. Many of those sites do have useful content, and any browser maker would be very foolish to break millions of web pages.

The "If you don't follow standards, your web page will break" line is pure bollocks. People in the real world design for real-world web browsers, not some document which is a wishlist, not a reflection of reality.

Update (2006/05/17): Here is an old article on evolt which agrees with my sentiment.

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martes, mayo 16, 2006

How to install MinGW32 on Windows

Emoticón actual:  enojado/a

Here is how to install MinGW32 on Windows, a free system that I use to make the Win32 binary of MaraDNS:

Go to the Mingw download page

Download msys and MinGW.

Install msys in /msys

Now, install mingw in /msys/mingw

Now you can compile programs:echo 'main(){printf("hello, world");}' > foo.c ; gcc foo.c. Note that mingw32 doesn't have a cc command, just a gcc command

MaraDNS also needs pthreads, which can be downloaded here. This is a little trickier to install. Basically, install the files in a scrap directory, place the files in the include directory in /msys/mingw/include and the files libpthreadGC2.a and pthreadGC2.dll in /msys/mingw/lib. Note that any pthread application will need the pthreadGC2.dll file to run. Note also that, if you distribute or link to pthreadGC2.dll, your program must have a GPL-compatible license, and the source code to pthread must be included (my MaraDNS zipfile meets both of these legal requirements); the pthread library has the GPL virus

Annoyance: The mingw documentation is poorly organized and does not give people the simple step-by-step directions that I have above. The pthread install was more intuitive, strangely enough, since the files in question go where an experienced developer expects to have them.

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lunes, mayo 15, 2006

Enough of the "add me" spammers

Enough of the "Add me" spammers.

Frequently, I get add requests in my inbox. However, about 80f the add requests I get are spam requests. These requests have the following features:

The girl pictured in the add request is always some model

Messages sent to these spammers are never answered

The profile in question usually has a link to the website the spammer is promoting

Today, I got an add request from one of these spammers who had the audacity to have an add for a penis enlargment product on their profile.

Enough. Untile MySpace uses CAPTCHAs to stop spambots, I have blocked add requests unless you know my last name. I have also added my last name to my profile. This is my personal CAPTCHA for stopping spammers.

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