Archive for September, 2004
WinXP sp2 download
Monday, September 27th, 2004Software Patch has the full copy of SP2. The page also includes a couple of other usefull downloads.
There’s also this link that gives instructions on “slipstreaming” your original XP disk, SP2 and making a bootable install of XP+SP2. This is very usefull, when you consider that an “unprotected’ PC can be [...]
Another (not just MS) security flaw
Thursday, September 16th, 2004Major graphics flaw threatens Windows PCs
from News.com:* The flaw affects various versions of at least a dozen Microsoft software applications and operating systems, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Office XP, Office 2003, Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, Project, Visio, Picture It and Digital Image Pro.* Windows XP Service Pack 2 is not vulnerable [...]
Mozilla and IE Coexisting
Friday, September 10th, 2004IE pages in Firefox
The ieview plugin is a Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems only at the moment), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer.
Usefull when testing new pages or when you absolutely have to see a page that only works in IE (for work, some [...]
Maintain a list of PDF pages
Thursday, September 9th, 2004Bookmark PDF Pages in Reader
Web browsers enable you to bookmark HTML pages, so why doesn’t Adobe Reader enable you to bookmark PDF pages? From the O’Reilly book, PDF Hacks 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools, here is a JavaScript that extends Reader so that it can create bookmarks to specific PDF pages. It works on Windows, [...]
meep meep
Tuesday, September 7th, 2004where the Future is Being Made Today
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the Muppet Show, but I was a big fan of Muppet Labs, where the Future is Being Made Today, with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his faithful assistant Beaker.
Well, they’ve just won “favorite TV scientist” in a poll conducted by the British [...]
Lorem Ipsum
Monday, September 6th, 2004Its all latin to me
Everything you’ll need to know about Lorem Ipsum.
This text, or it’s many variations, has been the typesetter’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
The reason for it’s existence is that a reader [...]
what is wrong with MS Word
Friday, September 3rd, 2004Most Word users aren’t professional writers.
Link to Rick Schaut’s blog entry, “Adumbrating in Word,”:The needs of most Word users aren’t the same as the needs of professional writers.The two most annoying “features” of MS-Word, for me anyway, are:* it knows what the average user wants, and tht’s what it gives the average user, and* if [...]
Clive Woodward resigns
Friday, September 3rd, 2004WTF ?
Via the BBC:“I love football and I go to as many games as I possibly can. I never had that passion for rugby I have for football.”PS in this context, football means soccer.
Offical statements from Woodward & the English RFU here.
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DVD Burner Recomendations
Friday, September 3rd, 2004backup media that matches your hard disk
Suggestion; The Pioneer DVR-A08XL 16x burner, OEM version, for as little as $A159. It burns Double layer disks, but can store up to 8.5GB of data on a single double-layer disc; provides an even more compelling solution for things such as hard disk images and back-ups.
The [...]
Firefox RSS reader + user interaction example
Friday, September 3rd, 2004Simple newsreader install
Just installed a news reader extension to the Firefox browser. Piece of piss. See this page for how its done. The install is a simple click on a link, but the instructions detail a step that’s not longer required..
After you have restarted Firefox. You will need to configure Sage.
First you [...]
