I've never used JSP and I'm wondering: could someone explain (or point to an explanation of) what a tag means in this JSP/Tag Libraries context? I only understand (from the context) that it's probably not "tag" as in "HTML tag", but that's about it.
About those font resources, do you remember that it was also possible to put fonts in applications instead of the system file, using Font/DA mover? Those fonts would be only accessible to the patched application itself, of course. If I remember correctly you could still do this in System 7.
JP
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Stuff like ad blocking and image filtering does NOT belong in the browser. It belongs in the proxy!
Maybe, but I was not talking about ad blocking or image filtering. I was talking about loading an animated gif image in the browser and then not animating it, which is something that does belong in the browser.
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Code 1: Images:
I tried this one (at the Versiontracker site) and while it does make the images dissapear at first, some (not all) of them immediately reappear, animating and all, on top of the text.
So thanks for the tip, but I guess I'll wait until there is a preference setting for animation (either from Apple itself, or a third party).
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Still not possible to stop animated gifs
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I would love to switch to Safari (I really want to use the.Mac bookmarks sync feature) but I still can't stop animated gifs with Safari, and I'm not going to torture myself by trying to read web pages with moving pictures in my field of vision. So I'll stick with Mozilla.
BTW, I surely can't be the only one who can't stand animations on web pages? I almost never see complaints about this missing feature of Safari. Strange. Even IE has a preference to 'never' animate animated gifs.
I'd like recommend the recordings from the 1930's by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli (Quintette of the Hot Club de France). Groundbreaking and virtuoso (acoustic)guitar and violin playing in a unique 'European' swing idiom (double bass, 2 rhythm guitars, lead guitar, violin).
But anyway, it's not a crappy scifi movie until you have the guys talking to themselves while typing on a computer with that infamous 20 character wide screen.
Or until you have a 'hacker' type of guy breaking into a remote computer system by typing frantically for 30 seconds and then exclaiming "I'M IN!"
And I'd still like to see the evidence that "animals" do not show any signs of a recent bottleneck, since everyone seems to be generalizing "animals" from the briefly mentioned (and not explicitly studied) chimps.
Well, if you believe that animals show signs of having a recent genetic bottleneck, then the onus of proof rests with you. Not the other way around.
You are completely right. The 'cursive' script we learned in school is an abomination, with its 'connect everything'-dogma even when it is detrimental to legibility. (For instance, the lower case 'r' is a sort of mirror image of the real letter form.(*)).
About 10 years ago I got sick of my more and more illegible 'cursive' handwriting and I learned writing in a different style: the 'humanistic cursive', which is probabley the same thing as the 'Italic letters' you mention. I use that (much more natural) style all the time now and I probably couldn't go back to my school-cursive if I wanted.
JP
(*) Note - I'm Dutch and so the 'cursive' I learned might be slightly different from the U.S. form.
One thing I would like to see more PHP books do is to cover the various Security problems that are prevalent in many PHP based web applications.
I completely agree with you. David Sklar (one of the authors of the book reviewed here) gave a very interesting presentation about the subject of security in web applications at the International PHP Conference (May 2003) in Amsterdam. You can view the slides of his talk here.
JP
The perfect companion for this book...
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... is (IMHO) the MySQL Cookbook. The 'Cookbook'-format (specific real-world problems and possible solutions) makes for extremely useful books.
Remote control applications could be good, but again, depending on environmental radio noise, etc., I'd probably prefer for my TV to stick with IR.
I am using my T68i BT-enabled phone as a remote control for my Mac, thanks to the wonderful Salling Clicker application. I don't have a dedicated DVD player, but using the phone as a remote control it's very convenient to sit back and watch DVD's on my computer. It's also nice that you don't have the point the phone at anything when using it as a remote control. Oh, and of course I also synchronize my address book with BT. In my household at least, Bluetooth is far from dead.
Popular? Do people still play with this? I haven't even seen one in the last 15 years or something (I'm in Europe). My impression was that after the initial 'craze' everyone got collectively sick of it somewhere in the mid-eighties and it kind of faded away. It was an interesting puzzle though, not that I ever really tried to solve it.
appleturns(100% reliable news by Steve Jobs's alter ego)
Parent was probaly tongue in cheek, but for the uninformed: As the Apple Turns, now back after a long hiatus, is nothing like an actual rumor site. It is an Apple themed 'soap opera', very funny, by a guy with a great sense of humor and writing skills to match.
Get rid of the duplicates, or at least keep no more than two of a kind
The problem with that is that if you want to keep an ancient computer in working order you need a source for parts. If you throw all the duplicates away it's much harder to repair your only working machine if it breaks.
Einstien's handwriting is very interesting. Notice how he dots his i's and how small his writing is. This means that he has an exceptional eye for detail, and he has an unreal imgination.
I don't think anyone would draw this sort of conclusions from his handwriting if they didn't know beforehand that it was Einstein's. Handwriting analysis is about as scientific as astrology if you ask me. See also this article in the Skeptic's Dictionary.
In other words, I could have used a good 'tips and tricks' sort of book. Not basic syntax, but the sort of things you'd miss even if you got fairly far using the online docs.
Sounds like you want the PHP Cookbook by David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg, and the MySQL Cookbook by Paul Dubois, then. Great books, I use them all the time.
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I've never used JSP and I'm wondering: could someone explain (or point to an explanation of) what a tag means in this JSP/Tag Libraries context? I only understand (from the context) that it's probably not "tag" as in "HTML tag", but that's about it.
Thanks in advance.
JP
About those font resources, do you remember that it was also possible to put fonts in applications instead of the system file, using Font/DA mover? Those fonts would be only accessible to the patched application itself, of course. If I remember correctly you could still do this in System 7.
JP
Stuff like ad blocking and image filtering does NOT belong in the browser. It belongs in the proxy!
Maybe, but I was not talking about ad blocking or image filtering. I was talking about loading an animated gif image in the browser and then not animating it, which is something that does belong in the browser.
JP
Code 1: Images:
I tried this one (at the Versiontracker site) and while it does make the images dissapear at first, some (not all) of them immediately reappear, animating and all, on top of the text.
So thanks for the tip, but I guess I'll wait until there is a preference setting for animation (either from Apple itself, or a third party).
JP
I would love to switch to Safari (I really want to use the .Mac bookmarks sync feature) but I still can't stop animated gifs with Safari, and I'm not going to torture myself by trying to read web pages with moving pictures in my field of vision. So I'll stick with Mozilla.
BTW, I surely can't be the only one who can't stand animations on web pages? I almost never see complaints about this missing feature of Safari. Strange. Even IE has a preference to 'never' animate animated gifs.
JP
IMHO, the best (fastest, most 'real-time') running transcripts of keynotes are those at MacMinute. Today's transcript is at http://www.macminute.com/wwdc2003.html.
JP
I'd like recommend the recordings from the 1930's by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli (Quintette of the Hot Club de France). Groundbreaking and virtuoso (acoustic)guitar and violin playing in a unique 'European' swing idiom (double bass, 2 rhythm guitars, lead guitar, violin).
Some ideas:
The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order
Quintette du Hot Club de France: 25 Classics 1934-1940
Also, EMusic has a lot of this stuff available for download.
JP
But anyway, it's not a crappy scifi movie until you have the guys talking to themselves while typing on a computer with that infamous 20 character wide screen.
Or until you have a 'hacker' type of guy breaking into a remote computer system by typing frantically for 30 seconds and then exclaiming "I'M IN!"
JP
And I'd still like to see the evidence that "animals" do not show any signs of a recent bottleneck, since everyone seems to be generalizing "animals" from the briefly mentioned (and not explicitly studied) chimps.
Well, if you believe that animals show signs of having a recent genetic bottleneck, then the onus of proof rests with you. Not the other way around.
JP
You are completely right. The 'cursive' script we learned in school is an abomination, with its 'connect everything'-dogma even when it is detrimental to legibility. (For instance, the lower case 'r' is a sort of mirror image of the real letter form.(*)).
About 10 years ago I got sick of my more and more illegible 'cursive' handwriting and I learned writing in a different style: the 'humanistic cursive', which is probabley the same thing as the 'Italic letters' you mention. I use that (much more natural) style all the time now and I probably couldn't go back to my school-cursive if I wanted.
JP
(*) Note - I'm Dutch and so the 'cursive' I learned might be slightly different from the U.S. form.
One thing I would like to see more PHP books do is to cover the various Security problems that are prevalent in many PHP based web applications.
I completely agree with you. David Sklar (one of the authors of the book reviewed here) gave a very interesting presentation about the subject of security in web applications at the International PHP Conference (May 2003) in Amsterdam. You can view the slides of his talk here.
JP
JP
Remote control applications could be good, but again, depending on environmental radio noise, etc., I'd probably prefer for my TV to stick with IR.
I am using my T68i BT-enabled phone as a remote control for my Mac, thanks to the wonderful Salling Clicker application. I don't have a dedicated DVD player, but using the phone as a remote control it's very convenient to sit back and watch DVD's on my computer. It's also nice that you don't have the point the phone at anything when using it as a remote control. Oh, and of course I also synchronize my address book with BT. In my household at least, Bluetooth is far from dead.
JP
Popular? Do people still play with this? I haven't even seen one in the last 15 years or something (I'm in Europe). My impression was that after the initial 'craze' everyone got collectively sick of it somewhere in the mid-eighties and it kind of faded away. It was an interesting puzzle though, not that I ever really tried to solve it.
JP
appleturns(100% reliable news by Steve Jobs's alter ego)
Parent was probaly tongue in cheek, but for the uninformed: As the Apple Turns, now back after a long hiatus, is nothing like an actual rumor site. It is an Apple themed 'soap opera', very funny, by a guy with a great sense of humor and writing skills to match.
JP
However this rumor seems to have enough other sites reporting generally the same thing to be true.
I'd say that that doesn't mean much because rumor sites will probably copy from each other without attribution.
JP
Often re-inventing the wheel is good
Agreed. Often re-inventing the wheel is the only feasible way to understand how the wheel works.
JP
Mac-on-linux looks cool and I'm keen to try it out, but is there anything that does the other way. i.e. Running Linux in a window on my Mac?
I don't know if there is a way to natively run a PPC Linux in a window within Mac OS X. I use Virtual PC to run an x86 Linux (Knoppix).
JP
This could have potentially revolutionary social effects...
Flashback to the late nineties? To me, this sounds like typical Internet Guru crap from before the dot-com meltdown.
JP
As far as I can tell, BBEdit does all that under Mac OSX.
Almost. BBEdit has no code collapsing, though.
JP
Reminds me of the Marx Brothers movie At the Circus.
Beautiful woman: "I've waited so long to find someone like you."
Groucho Marx: "Oh, someone like me, I'm not good enough for you, eh?"
JP
Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct. A great introduction to what modern linguistics is about.
(And I second the recommendations by others for Jared Diamond (Gun, Germs and Steel) and Richard Dawkins.)
JP
Get rid of the duplicates, or at least keep no more than two of a kind
The problem with that is that if you want to keep an ancient computer in working order you need a source for parts. If you throw all the duplicates away it's much harder to repair your only working machine if it breaks.
JP
Einstien's handwriting is very interesting. Notice how he dots his i's and how small his writing is. This means that he has an exceptional eye for detail, and he has an unreal imgination.
I don't think anyone would draw this sort of conclusions from his handwriting if they didn't know beforehand that it was Einstein's. Handwriting analysis is about as scientific as astrology if you ask me. See also this article in the Skeptic's Dictionary.
JP
In other words, I could have used a good 'tips and tricks' sort of book. Not basic syntax, but the sort of things you'd miss even if you got fairly far using the online docs.
Sounds like you want the PHP Cookbook by David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg, and the MySQL Cookbook by Paul Dubois, then. Great books, I use them all the time.
JP