Tuesday, January 14, 2003
- circa 1995: Netscape Navigator Extensions to HTML.
All the Netscape Navigator extensions to HTML take the form of additional tags and attributes added to the HTML specification and are specifically designed not to break existing WWW browsers.
- css-discuss wiki: To hack or not to hack.
The topic of whether or not to use CSS hacks is often hotly debated, and could be thought of as a holy war.
- Simon St. Laurent: An Outsider’s Guide to the W3C.
- Mac OS X Hints: Disable >console login mode in Jaguar.
- Brad Choate: Well, how does it look? If you don’t like it, you can customize it. And be sure to read Brad’s accessibility statement.
- Dave Johnson: Introducing: Automatic linkbacks in Roller.
I’ll tell you a little bit more about the implementation later, but right now is pizza time.
[via Sam Ruby: More Sticky Strands]
- Lawrence Lessig: What lawyers can learn from comic books.
Management should begin to demand a business justification for copyright litigation.
- Alex King. How to set up a Series 2 TiVo with an Apple AirPort (802.11b) Wireless Network. This is of particular interest to me since (a) we have a wireless network, and (b) we have no phone jack in our living room, so we have to drag out the phone cord and string it across two rooms and manually make a call once a week to update our program data. My parts are on order; I’ll let you know how it goes.
- Mike Bombich: Rapid Deployment of Mac OS X with Apple Software Restore.
If you’re simply looking for an easy way to backup or move your Mac OS X installation to another disk, check out this other article. The following instructions are more appropriate for the deployment of Mac OS X installations in, say, a lab environment.
- Mike Bombich: NetRestore.
You can use NetRestore to restore a master disk image to a computer’s hard disk while that disk image is hosted locally, on a network via AFP, or on the internet via HTTP. NetRestore can also be used in conjunction with NetBoot to fully automate the deployment of a lab full of machines.
- Dorothea Salo: Semantic HTML.
Markup for markup’s sake and metadata for metadata’s sake are not good things. Truly. Think before you add markup and metadata.
- Safari Enhancer.
Among the things enabled are a debugging menu that allows you to do such things as enabling keyboard and mouse shortcuts, changing what browser Safari identifies itself as, and changing how Safari handles Security.
- Jonathon Delacour: Tansu.
My mother told me that if I was naughty I would come back in my next life as a cripple.
- Kevin Hemenway: What I Want to See in a Writing Sample.
A friend recently applied for a job where the employer asked for a sample of your business writing or a sample of previous work that demonstrates your organization, analysis, and logical thinking skills.
- William Gibson: Neuromancer and Drugs.
‘But you’re drowning in the waters the mystics walked on,’ said a saddened theologian to Leary and Alpert, early on, when they had explained the import of Dr. Hoffman’s benison. When I first read that, I assumed that this guy was just some sour-faced killjoy. In long retrospect, now, I think he may actually have been trying to tell them something.
- Uche Ogbuji: Generating DOM magic.
I often find that I don’t need a list of all the subelements with a particular name; instead, I need the first one from that list in document order. In other words, I often use an idiom like get_elements_by_tag_name(node, name)[0]. This is very efficient using generators: the generator only does as much work as I ask it to.
- SpeedChimera.
Enhance speed with HTTP pipelining. Disable blinking text. Block certain images. Turn off auto-complete. Enable the marquee tag. Show history in the side bar. Restrict minimum font size. Modify tab focusing. Configure image animation. Act as another browser to servers.
- Mac OS X Hints: Fink package notification newsfeed available.
Fink now has an RSS feed.
- Timothy Appnel: Please put UDDI out of its misery.
The attempts to make UDDI useful and worthwhile keep getting more and more desperate.
- Sarah Hepola: A Game of Skill, Strategy, Chance.
The person beside you is the best kind of stranger: the cute kind.
- LawMeme: Google replies to SearchKing lawsuit.
Perhaps a search engine is important enough to be treated as a regulated utility.
- Mac OS X Hints: Enable the Safari debug menu.
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
- Michael Calore: Surfin’ Safari.
The general assumption of those in the pundit business is that Safari is intended as a replacement for the sluggish and standards-defiant Internet Explorer for the Macintosh.
Amusingly, Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh was considered the most standards-compliant browser in the world when it was first released.
- Joel Rennich: Creating a bootable backup copy of your [OS X] system drive.
We’ve confirmed that psync as outlined below works just fine under Jaguar.
- The Register: MS dumps .NET tag in latest Windows Server name change.
It’s not called Microsoft(R) Windows(R) .NET Server 2003 any more, since you ask, it’s called Windows Server 2003. This tidily follows up on last August’s name change to Microsoft(R) Windows(R) .NET Server 2003, prior to which its been called numerous things at various points, including Windows 2002 server.
- William Gibson: When the tweaking had to stop.
As to drugs facilitating creativity, I think I’ve seen a lot of paintings, most often stacked along the walls of thrift shops, that argue against this.
- Jonathon Delacour: Happy birthday.
Since I started using computers (in 1985), I’ve lost track of all the software applications I’ve purchased. Many of them proved useful but only a tiny number provided pleasure together with utility: Photoshop, Nisus, Japanese Language Kit, Dreamweaver, Movable Type.
- MP3 Newswire: 2002 winners and 2002 losers.
- Margaret Berry: Women’s Fashion: Part IV, Accessories.
We were talking about New Year’s resolutions, and she said she was going easy on herself. Her only resolution was to accessorize better.
- Futurama is now on Cartoon Network! They’re starting from the very beginning. Luckily, TiVo caught it for me.
I’m gonna start my own amusement park… with blackjack… and hookers… in fact, forget the park.
- Joe Gregorio: BitWorking is now Cool.
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