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  1. Re:Bit of a non answer on the Vertical CSS front.. on Håkon Responds to Questions About CSS and... · · Score: 1

    I'm actually using this right now with XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype, so I can confirm that it does work (thankfully!). I only hope it's helpful to the original poster. :)

  2. Re:Bit of a non answer on the Vertical CSS front.. on Håkon Responds to Questions About CSS and... · · Score: 2, Informative

    1. Set html and body to height : 100%; (otherwise they will not fill the viewport properly).
    2. Set your main content element to position : relative; min-height : 100%;.
    3. Put your footer inside the main content element and set it to position : absolute; left : 0; bottom : 0; width : 100%;.

    Caveat: You need to know how high the footer is and add padding/margins to the bottom of the content so that the last bit of content on the page doesn't get swallowed by the footer (which is floating above the content on a separate layer).

    HTH,

  3. Nested CSS on Ask Håkon About CSS or...? · · Score: 1
    One of the things that I always find frustrating when I write CSS is how verbose you have to be when assigning styles to elements because there is no nesting.

    Instead of writing:
    .class1
    {
      font : 2em sans-serif;
     
      em
      {
        text-decoration : underline;
      }
      div, table
      {
        margin : 3em 0;
     
        span.class2
        {
          text-transform : uppercase;
          color : #900;
        }
      }
    }
    One has to write:
    .class1
    {
      font : 2em sans-serif;
    }
    .class1 em
    {
      text-decoration : underline;
    }
    .class1 div, .class1 table
    {
      margin : 3em;
    }
    .class1 div span.class2, .class1 table span.class2
    {
      text-transform : uppercase;
        color : #900;
    }
    Presumably this is to make the language less complicated for new users, but for me it just ends up adding a lot of un-necessary writing and makes it very difficult to easily apply styles to large node groups. Has implementing a method of allowing nested CSS like the above example ever been considered? If so, what were the reasons for deciding against it?
  4. Re:CSS for table columns? on Ask Håkon About CSS or...? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why can't we just place styles on a <col> or <colgroup>, and have it cascade down?

    You can (<col class="whatever">). However, the instant you add classes to any of the rows or cells in the table, it stops working, so it's not very useful.

  5. Re:nice summary of a registration required article on Activision's Kotick Discounts Downloadable Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Before Steam, you could connect to World Opponents Network without registering. All it required was that your CD-key that wasn't being used at the same time as someone else.

    Once Valve introduced Steam, you were forced to link your CD-key to a login username and there is no way to unlink it except by paying what basically sums up to being an extortion fee to Valve.

    The guy purchased the game, at the store. It was a transfer of property from one person to another. He is having to re-register something he already owns. And that's a big, big problem.

  6. Re:Slow action on spyware and spam on Slashback: Oklahoma Spyware, FSF DRM, Lenovo Linux · · Score: 1

    Dude, that's like saying that murderers aren't your problem because you don't live in a high-crime area. People that damage other people's property or body are bad for society as a whole and are everyone's problem, whether you want to believe it or not.

  7. Re:Crappy SATA Driver on Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System · · Score: 1

    Until you get a SATA optical drive and have the NVIDIA IDE drivers installed. Bluescreens every time you try to access it. In my case it was a Plextor drive. Funny thing is, I contacted Plextor, and within 20 minutes they responded saying they said they were well aware of the issue, had already submitted many reports to NVIDIA asking them to fix their driver, and that NVIDIA had never responded. Imagine that. Plextor, one of the largest optical disc drive manufacturers in the world, goes to NVIDIA and says "Fix your shit", and they do nothing. Unbelievable.

  8. Re:Mac? on VMWare Rolls Out Their Largest Product Release · · Score: 1

    What is it you think Parallels does, exactly? Because, uh, it's a virtual machine, just like VMware.

  9. Re:Blast on Ubuntu 6.06 'Dapper Drake' Released · · Score: 1

    Automount
    Settings in my fstab file just get ignored. I have a FAT32 partition that I use to share crap between my Windows NTFS boot and my Linux boot. I added all the appropriate settings to fstab, but Gnome (or whoever) still mounts the FAT32 partition as read-only even though I commanded it to allow user mounts and RW mode.


    Are you it's actually read-only and that you just don't have permissions to write to the partition? Try mounting it with -o umask=000.

  10. Re:TLDs on Tim Berners-Lee on the Web · · Score: 1

    nit: .com was supposed to be for commercial use. .net was supposed to be for networks. .org was supposed to be the Everything Else TLD -- for personal sites, not-for-profits, everything. Didn't quite work out that way because registration was open to everyone. I think the reason .com is now generally used as the first choice for domain names is because of the heavy influence of commercial advertising, but it wasn't intended to be that way.

  11. Re:Drivers on New Mobile GeForce Go Graphics · · Score: 4, Informative
  12. Re:Adsense users are getting the shaft... on Google Agrees to Pay $90mln on Click Fraud Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    This happened to me. Went all the way through the song and dance of confirming the bank account, confirming the address... and then had it shut down right before the first month's disbursement was supposed to be paid out.

    I've been sending Google AdSense one email every month or so (because they won't respond without 2 or 3 emails in a row) asking again for the same simple information: What did you see that constituted an invalid click? So far, they've been completely unwilling to answer this question. They claim that their algorithm is proprietary and therefore they cannot tell me anything about what they have supposedly seen on my account, thereby completely absolving themselves of any wrongdoing. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't pocketing the money that I had made. As far as I know, there either were no invalid clicks, or they were produced by a single rogue user of the site. Punishing a publisher because of a rogue user, instead of, say, banning the rogue user? That would be pretty low, especially since they've shown themselves to be perfectly capable of coding impressive Web apps.

    I've apparently exhaused all of their response form letters and have started receiving duplicates. Basically zero human interaction goes into anything from AdSense once your account is suspended; not even a name at the bottom. When you're in good standing with them and have a suggestion, well hey, you get a personalised response. But not once they shut your account down. Google is going to tank HARD if they don't start respecting their publishers more.

  13. Re:Expresscard/34 slot no good for 3G/UMTS use on MacBook Pro Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Just for your information, PCMCIA is a PCI interface, and ExpressCard is a PCI Express interface.

  14. Re:Faster way to clean up Norton on Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus · · Score: 1

    SymNRT does not remove every trace by far. Twice now I've run SymNRT on systems with totally broken Norton Internet Security installations (so broken the normal uninstaller just shits out) and Windows Security Center still thinks that NIS is installed and working fine after SymNRT is run. Can't figure out where the hell it's getting that information from, and I've spent hours searching and deleting things from the system registry with any sort of Symantec reference, but it still remains. Furthermore, there are still Symantec services left running on the system after SymNRT is run that need to be manually removed, and Symantec CCPD-LC registry keys are left intact.

    But I'm curious, since you've used SymNRT: Does it bug you that Symantec felt that they needed to include a CAPTCHA with their uninstaller tool?

  15. Re:I call BS. on Study Notes Decline in Internet Spyware · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it's not that easy. In order to remove spyware, in addition to automatic tools, a fair amount of manual work has to be done, going through all of the Run keys, BHOs, DLLs loaded by explorer.exe, Notify keys, yadda yadda etc etc. and none of that can be automated because it's unique to every system. That's the part that takes the most eye-time. If you default allow, you miss anything new or random; if you default deny, you destroy a completely legitimate program that you haven't seen before. It's boring, but hey, it's job security if you're good at it.

  16. Re:The major lesson of all this. on MIT Startup Tests Top Million Sites for Spyware · · Score: 1

    Firefox 1.5's pop-up blocking blocks pop-ups from plug-ins such as Flash. What were you saying, now?

  17. Re:NEW LOGO LINKS HERE on 'Intel Inside' No More · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think certain people might like you to pay better attention to what you post to slashdot.

  18. Re:I believe it on 50% of HDTV Owners Don't Use HD · · Score: 1

    Those IDIOTS are preventing the sides of your screen from being brighter than the middle of the screen as the set decays. It's your own damn fault for buying a plasma screen. ;)

  19. Re: Asterisk on Solutions for Small Business VoIP? · · Score: 1

    The Asterisk@Home project is part of the way there. It's a prepackaged Asterisk distribution based on CentOS.

  20. Re:"Something to hide" on Lie Detectors to be Used for Airline Security · · Score: 1

    Amen to this. I seriously can't believe how blind the vast majority people in this country are to anything going on outside their own little self-encapsulated bubble of a world. I hadn't travelled since before 2001 until this year; I was appalled at what was going on in order to make things more "secure". It's a travesty and a monumental waste of time and taxpayer money. I was allowed to carry an closed opaque cup through the metal detector without so much as a second thought. Such a container could easily hold enough explosive to cause devistating results, and yet we have to remove our shoes, take our laptops out of their bags for x-ray scanning, destroy or check in nail files, nail clippers, knitting needles, and all other sorts of non-weapons in the name of "security". I can't imagine that anyone would think for an instant that any terrorist would be able to get away with hijacking an airplane after 11 September. The fact is, if anyone tried, they would be rushed by the passengers and crew so quickly they wouldn't know what happened. There will never be any more negotiation in the air, and that's fine enough security for me.

  21. Re:Ubuntu 6.04 Already for Sale on Dapper Drake Hits Ubuntu Servers · · Score: 1

    Funny since Canonical Ltd. will give you Ubuntu CDs for Free.

  22. Re:It's so fast... on Inmarsat Brings 3G Broadband to North America · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Size vs. Noise on Flurry of Hard Drive Reviews · · Score: 1

    Oops, I definitely am getting some wires crossed.
    Seagate has 80GB platters that use perpendicular recording in their 160GB Momentus 5400.3 drives. Toshiba also has 40GB platters that use perpendicular recording in their 40GB MK4007GAL 1.8" drives.

  24. Re:Size vs. Noise on Flurry of Hard Drive Reviews · · Score: 1

    Seagate has 133GB platters that use perpendicular recording.

  25. Re:freedom? on Senator Wants to Keep U.N. Away From the Internet · · Score: 1

    I guess you missed the article from yesterday about that very topic.