To anticipate and prevent
The title is self explanitory. IF you were thinking about buying an Averatec notebook (laptop) computer — DONT DO IT. I have a 6100 — As I have mentioned before — And it needs new drivers. Most companies release new drivers every few months — well — Its been 9 months since I bought my…
Aparently Averatec & ATI are in cahoots w/ each other. ATI refuses to provide any drivers for the Mobility Radeon 9600 I have in this machine. I’m sorry, even if the machines are specalized, they should at leave have a generic copy of their mobility drivers. Basically what ATI said to me is that they’d…
So — one of the great things that I figured out how to use the other day was XSSI, the extended set of server side include directions. Of course, Apache supports this no problem, even in 1.3.x — but IIS doesn’t. So if you want to make a website using XSSI (aka If statements w/…
Aparently the bots are back at the site — as the view count on all my posts is above 5. I’ll have to investigate and BAN THEM. I’ve also discovered that w/ the right regex trickery — SSI can do the most magical of things. I’ll post an example latter — once I’ve gotten my…
Yes its been on slashdot, etc — but I actually did download and try Outfoxed. Its a nice plugin for Firefox — its basically a page ranking tool (along with other nifty features like running proccess information). I have to say its very unobtrusive & very easy to use/submit. You can see my informer page…
Today I saw the headline on yahoo about Copyright worries with Digital Pictures which is rather intesting. I also found NPR audio-article about photographers being harrased on the basis of “national security” or what not. Its all a bit scary to think about, but it seems rather typical in this day in age. Heck, look…