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    woot is in woot off mode

    I just realized what the flashing yellow lights mean. I missed some ok crap. Maybe there is some ok crap coming up. But I think it is getting close to 3 days now.
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    MS continues to hate consumers and hobbyists

    Why would microsoft ask it's OEM partners to enforce? Wouldn't their activation center be tasked with enforcement? I can find plenty of people quoting the same information even back in january. But I can't find a microsoft blurb about it. They can't change the license though for existing OEM...
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    Why must TV forsake me?

    Boondocks is awesome, I can testify to that. I only caught two episodes but both were hilarious. When the kid shot the rich kid's son out the window, classic.
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    Why must TV forsake me?

    Ah my tivo season pass list is filled with cancelled shows. There is something seriously wrong with TV distribution or most of the country must like the stuff that passes for TV sometimes.
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    Something Random

    That sounds about right for what we got here. I spent all day sunday shoveling, digging out cars, sledding and napping.
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    Musings on a new PC

    I bought the Ultra version of this board. Not sure what the difference was.
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    Hello? Anyone there? Who turned da lights out?

    This is weird no new posts for like most of the day today.
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    Folding@Home

    I've currently got two double gromacs work units each worth more than 500 points, I think 539 and 589. They seem to be taking more than a day each and were about 60% and 70% completed this morning. I'd love to get these all the time. Are they new?
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    An example of messing with markup. Padding is not that same in each browser and it requires the use of I don't like it. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en-US" dir="ltr"> <head> <title>Test</title> <meta...
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    No hat trick coming, the display inline is probably the best I could do. The problem is you have to support single line links and multiple line links. By treating them as a block but flowing them inline, yes the image does go the far right. I played around with floating the links and that...
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    For the record inline-block doesn't work in firefox, but then firefox ignores it. And when firefox supports it, it will still be fine. I know IE supports it. Not sure about the other browsers: opera, safari, etc.
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    My only other idea was to look for the article I saw on this technique of adding the images to links. I know I saw it somewhere but my google-fu failed at first attempt to locate it again. I know someone must have encountered this problem. Anyway, this seems to work acceptably. .pdf {...
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    This is an interesting one. Both browsers correctly honor your padding-right: 18px; The problem is the coordinates of your background image are causing it to be clipped. IE is putting your background on the first line not the second. Changing the '100% 50%' at the end of the background to...
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    then = than specifity = specificity
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    You know these posts make me sound like a css master or something when that really isn't the case. I hardly ever have to deal with this stuff. Most of my css is dead simple stuff, make this bold make that float. I don't even do fancy layout stuff, mostly tabular data and the like. It is just...
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    Also reading your post, I think your missing the point of inherit. It is to inherit from the parent element, not another css rule. In this case the li element.
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    Meant to link to the rules for specifity and note that my order is a bit off. First the rules for a are applied, specifity 1 then the rules for .pdf are applied, specifity 1 then the rules for a:visited are applied, specifity 2 if your rule had a.pdf as that would have a specifity of 2 as well...
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    The problem is your background: inherit on a:visited. It's specifity is overriding the .pdf class rule. But I don't think it is needed anyway as the a rule already has it. So for an anchor (link) with a pdf class that is visited you will have the rules from all three of these applied. a...
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    Maxtor releases firmware fix for NFORCE4

    So it looks like only SATA drives, good mine is PATA so no worries.
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    Maxtor releases firmware fix for NFORCE4

    Shrink that link http://tinyurl.com/98a66
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    Maxtor releases firmware fix for NFORCE4

    I think mine is a 6Y, I'll have to check my records at home. I'm definitely using a maxtor on an nforce4 though. Not as my boot drive but where all my important data resides.
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    Songbird

    Why would I want to play my ripped music through this rather than WMP? I mean it is cool and all that it uses XULRunner but WMP already has my music categorized and my playlists saved.
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    Folding@Home

    How should I have my AMD dual core box configured now? My production has dropped significantly without QMDs and I think I'm just going to take out all the parameters for the services and see how it affects my production. I think maybe I need to configure one for big WU and the configure the...
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    It's time to out Tannin

    I'll be 30 this year.
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    It's time to out Tannin

    The lyric "Poisoning our brainwashed minds" comes to mind... though I can't remember the context... black sabbath or megadeath maybe.
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    GM Pulls Ads From L.A. Times

    I take public transportation when I go into the city, philly. But for the most part I don't and thus don't care much. Our public transportation, septa, is pretty much a joke anyway. Shortly before the MTA strike, there was a maybe less publicized septa strike. Fortunately the regional rail...
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    Make Word-to-HTML less sucky?

    No, not at all. And for this purpose, a reference document, I don't think it is a bad idea. As I see it here is the situation. Merc has some pretty good documents that he'd like to share. Turning them into semi-decent html is turning out to be difficult and to time consuming for him to even...
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    Also some interesting in a bad way stuff from the validation results Most notably using script language= instead of the correct script type="text/javascript" Using document.write in a xhtml page
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    Also might be the peekaboo bug
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    Try this
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    IE CSS Bug - Disappearing borders

    Weird thing is that if I alt tab between the two sometimes the borders come back. Seems to be if the page is scrolled to the bottom. I have the window restored, not maximized taking up most of the screen. Trying different resolutions it seems to be related to the scrolling. The loss of...
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    Make Word-to-HTML less sucky?

    Why not just upload the actual word documents? Or even just pdf versions? Not everything has to be html. Especially a spyware removal guide that you probably want to either print or say download and open while going through it.
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    Make Word-to-HTML less sucky?

    Yes I know, I think I saw one on codinghorror.com, let me check.... http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000485.html
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    IP of where a website was?

    Is there a way to find out the IP address of where a website was? I know the IP of where it is now. But I want to know the last IP it was hosted at. I thought maybe googles cache would have IP information but no. Any search engines include IP information?
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    Something Random

    Have you tried deleting the cookie and clearing your cache? I've found this resolves most of my authentication issues.
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    Psychology qiestion that has always bothered me

    Because their computers cost so much... hehe. Seriously though my pops would be happier with a mac and he's a cool guy. He works with quarky all day making the printing plates for big printing jobs.
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    T-shirt Folding Machine

    You know what are really hard to fold? Sheets. Not the top sheet that is a nice rectangle. But the bottom sheets with the elastic at the corners and sometimes at both short ends.
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    Ghost Boot CD with USB Support?

    Well I never got around to trying the things as I decided to take a different route for backups. I got an IDE Drive Rack and put the backup drive in there.
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    IDE Drive Rack

    Well it works, after I jumpered the devices correctly. But I'm not at all happy with the crunching of the power wires or the data connector mating. I don't think the data connector goes in far enough. So I guess cableless is not so great. But I did my first ghost backup to it and all is well.
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    Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

    Which six are you talking? Yahoo, ebay, ? Yahoo isn't strictly fixed width, try resizing the text and the whole page resizes. Ebay is fixed width on the home page but go to a results listing or an item listing.
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    Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

    I've seen Jakob Nielsen's site before. His name sure is not easy to type. A lot of the blogging web developers take his advice with a grain of salt. Most of the time there is truth there but extremes are just that. But fixed width is bad in general. Think about cell phone browsing or a future...
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    HIS brand video cards

    Poor judgement deceiving the wife.
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    NTOSKRNL.exe fails when playing demanding games.

    Video Drivers going tits up in kernel mode. Try different versions of the ATI drivers.
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    Something Random

    Who cares, maybe she's just a nimpho, go for it man!
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    IDE Drive Rack

    I purchased the Bytecc this morning, I'll see how it goes. Thanks to all for your help. The only problem with a PATA version in my system, aside from hot swapping, is this will be device number 4 so cabling it the way I want might be interesting.
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    IDE Drive Rack

    By cheap I meant something like this which is $14 shipped. Then I'll have some actual experience using one and can make my decision based on the shortcomings of the el-cheapo.
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    IDE Drive Rack

    My board has PATA and SATA connections. I'm trying to use PATA drives in an SATA rack per merc's recommendation. I see that the StorCase DE110 can do that but not sure I want to spend $143 on it. Maybe I'll just buy a cheap PATA one to try it out and see whether shutting down the PC to take the...
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    IDE Drive Rack

    Bozo, are you buying the SATA or SAS version of the DX115? If the SATA, can you take pictures of the connections? I'm trying to determine if the IDE to SATA adapter will work with it.
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    Another SF Milestone

    WT stands/stood for Wilson Technology, which is where I work. I said stood for because we are actually a division of a larger company now. The story goes that one day I just had to reply or post something at SF and didn't have access to my account. So I created the WT account and used that...
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    Another SF Milestone

    I've reached 1000 posts between my two accounts. That sure has taken forever.
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