February 2008
2 posts
Disappearing List Bullet Bug In IE7 -- Wordpress...
The default Wordpress theme (Kubrick) uses ‘pretty’ bullets that do not appear in IE7. Fortunately, the fix for this is not a total nightmare:
if you don’t already have an iestyles.css, add the following to your header.php AFTER the stylesheet line (which looks like this: <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php...
January 2008
6 posts
Using Iceweasel with addons.mozilla.org (firefox...
Out of the box, I wasn’t able to get plugins to download for Iceweasel. I assumed it was a user-agent problem.*
Not true! Apparently, Iceweasel comes with IPV6 DNS enabled. You probably don’t want this.
Type in “about:config”, search for ‘ipvs’, and make sure that ‘network.dns.disableIPv6’ is set to TRUE. Restart your browser.
via Re: [SOLVED]...
Quick and unannotated debian 64-bit web dev...
install from net disk, do not select a network mirror
vim /etc/apt/sources.list
comment out CD source.
add:
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main contrib
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main contrib
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade //upgrade our dled distro to latest.
reboot
apt-get install gnome-core xorg gdm gnome-volume-manager file-roller less php5-cli vim-gtk...
Stable 32-bit chroot flash with sound for Debian...
Over about 12 hours I managed to put together a chroot that would provide Flash with audio to a debian etch amd64 install.
Some background: I’m in the process of switching to Linux as a main desktop, in order to take advantage of the awesome awesome tools available on the Linux platform (and because Vista is like XP circa 2001 — both myself and the computer I own aren’t ready...
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Without a doubt, the best thing on the internet.
More Complaints And Whining: Javascript...
Package your scripts, guys! 99% of people are going to want to download ALL of the files that you have released. I can delete the 755 byte CSS file if I don’t want to use it, and I’m not super worried about the extra bandwidth coming down. Who doesn’t tar or zip files anymore?
More seriously, is there a good reason people are doing this that I’ve missed? It’s very...