Monday, October 31, 2011
Canonical, Dell bring Ubuntu laptops to 220 Chinese retail stores - The H Open Source: News and Features
Canonical, Dell bring Ubuntu laptops to 220 Chinese retail stores - The H Open Source: News and Features: Canonical and Dell have announced the launch of a new retail programme to bring computers with Ubuntu pre-loaded on them to more than 200 retail locations in China
JRuby update improves Ruby 1.9 support - The H Open Source: News and Features
JRuby update improves Ruby 1.9 support - The H Open Source: News and Features: Version 1.6.5 of JRuby continues to improve compatibility with the 1.9.x branch of Ruby and brings a number of other changes
Apple open sources its ALAC lossless audio codec - The H Open Source: News and Features
Apple open sources its ALAC lossless audio codec - The H Open Source: News and Features: Apple has released its ALAC lossless audio codec, which compresses digital audio files without losing any of the original information, as open source under the Apache Licence
Friday, October 28, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Oracle-Google trial postponed until 2012 - The H Open Source: News and Features
Oracle-Google trial postponed until 2012 - The H Open Source: News and Features: The responsible federal judge has divided the proposed trial into three phases: to deal first with the copyright claims, then with the patent claims and finally with all remaining aspects such as damages and wilfulness
Further evidence of Certificate Authority break-ins - The H Security: News and Features
Further evidence of Certificate Authority break-ins - The H Security: News and Features: In the past four months, at least five different CAs have revoked around 200 certificates because their issuers had been compromised
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Ruby 2.0 for 2013 - The H Open Source: News and Features
Ruby 2.0 for 2013 - The H Open Source: News and Features: Version 2.0 of the Ruby language is scheduled to arrive on 24 February 2013, on the 20th anniversary of the creation of Ruby
being online with 2 Skype accounts in parallel?
Using the same Skype account for work and for personal life is really, really bad.
I would love to have the work account open only for work hours.
Well, the good thing about the new ownership at Skype is, that I expect Microsoft to merge Skype and MSN Messenger sooner or later.
It was always bad, that you have to run the Skype application, even if you run Adium or pidgin or whatever to integrate all your IM, and the implication of that being, that you cannot "work" through 2 accounts at the same time. XMPP / Jabber can do it, and any IM can do it, just Skype can't. But the state owned trojans undermine the security of it anyway. That's so ridiculous.
I would love to have the work account open only for work hours.
Well, the good thing about the new ownership at Skype is, that I expect Microsoft to merge Skype and MSN Messenger sooner or later.
It was always bad, that you have to run the Skype application, even if you run Adium or pidgin or whatever to integrate all your IM, and the implication of that being, that you cannot "work" through 2 accounts at the same time. XMPP / Jabber can do it, and any IM can do it, just Skype can't. But the state owned trojans undermine the security of it anyway. That's so ridiculous.
seeing a kid kneeing in a window on the 3rd floor looking down to the backyard
Not really a nightmare, not even a night-nightmare at all, but sometimes this view flashes through my memory at daytime. I hope nothing like that will ever really happen caused by my carelessness. I also hope, this flash-back will stop haunting me one day.
just saw an "rm *" in my bash history
That one was perfectly right, but once in a while I remember having deleted the kernel boot image of a Unix machine like 17 years ago. It didn't really cause a lot of trouble, and the case got solved w/o too much pain, but …
OWS – it's not the financial system, it's the greedy customers, that expect their margins
The protesters, that lost money during the crisis, they seem to be unable to admit, that is was them, that went for the high risk. They are not honest, if they deny, they did not know anything about that high risk. Putting the blame on the system ist utmost dishonest.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Android address book vs. Xing address book
Well, unlike the Facebook and the Linkedin address books the Xing address book only mixes into the Android address book after installing and launching the Xing application. Maybe that's because the makers of Android have nice deals with Facebook and Linkedin and not with Xing, but it just works a lot different. You can join your various "standard" entries within your Android address book, and the Xing address book entries are not reachable and joinable like that. Instead the Xing app adds a reference from a matching Android address book entry to a Xing address book entry.
Skype was the default dialer on my Android phone, and I wanted to change that
That really gave me a hard time.
I remember, that until a couple of days a go, when I attempted to dial a phone number resp. one of the numbers associated to a address book entry, I got a list of alternatives presented, through which I could dial. I don't remember, that I made one of them the default dialers, but at one stage, I apparently did. I wanted to roll that back, but I had no idea why. For some reason I was obsessed with the idea, that I should be able to undo that choice exactly where I apparently selected it in the first place. But it doesn't work like that. Searched the web for it and found the right approach.
I remember, that until a couple of days a go, when I attempted to dial a phone number resp. one of the numbers associated to a address book entry, I got a list of alternatives presented, through which I could dial. I don't remember, that I made one of them the default dialers, but at one stage, I apparently did. I wanted to roll that back, but I had no idea why. For some reason I was obsessed with the idea, that I should be able to undo that choice exactly where I apparently selected it in the first place. But it doesn't work like that. Searched the web for it and found the right approach.
- what's the current dialer?
- find it within "Manage applications"!
- find its "Launch by default" section!
- "Clear defaults" if applicable!
- now that's no longer your default dialer
It was that easy in my case.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Steve Yegge giving "Paganini Caprice 1", picked acoustic guitar
This is Steve Yegge playing, an admired nerd.
WOW!
I guess I just wasted at least the last 30 years of my life doing foolish things.
Steve Yegge - Google+ - Last week I accidentally posted an internal rant about…
Steve Yegge - Google+ - Last week I accidentally posted an internal rant about…:
"That’s where the “Dread Pirate Bezos” line came from. I worked hard and had fun, but every day I honestly worried they might fire me in the morning. Sure, it was a kind of paranoia. But it was sort of healthy in a way.
I kept my resume up to date, and I kept my skills up to date, and I never worried about saying something stupid and ruining my career.
Because hey, they were most likely going to fire me in the morning."
'via Blog this'
"That’s where the “Dread Pirate Bezos” line came from. I worked hard and had fun, but every day I honestly worried they might fire me in the morning. Sure, it was a kind of paranoia. But it was sort of healthy in a way.
I kept my resume up to date, and I kept my skills up to date, and I never worried about saying something stupid and ruining my career.
Because hey, they were most likely going to fire me in the morning."
'via Blog this'
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Kaspersky discovers new version of German state-sponsored trojan - The H Security: News and Features
Kaspersky discovers new version of German state-sponsored trojan - The H Security: News and Features: "The researchers also discovered a 64-bit driver signed using a certificate issued by fictitious CA Goose Cert; 64-bit versions of Windows will not load unsigned drivers. A normal copy of Windows will not accept the fake certificate, meaning that the installation process also has to modify Windows' certificate store – how it does this is not yet known."
The modern German police state told Microsoft to allow this – any serious other options? If so, I will delete this silly comment immediately.
The modern German police state told Microsoft to allow this – any serious other options? If so, I will delete this silly comment immediately.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
NoScript for Android now feature complete - The H Security: News and Features
NoScript for Android now feature complete - The H Security: News and Features: A version of the script and embedded object blocking plug-in for Android and Maemo has been in development since the start of the year; now NoScript has been declared feature complete
Sentenced: German engineer modified card terminals for criminal gangs - The H Security: News and Features
Sentenced: German engineer modified card terminals for criminal gangs - The H Security: News and Features: A German electronics engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison for helping international skimming gangs with his technical expertise. The 26-year-old had previously worked for a German manufacturer of cash machines
Amazon Rewrites the Rules of Book Publishing - NYTimes.com
Amazon Rewrites the Rules of Book Publishing - NYTimes.com: "Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal"
Monday, October 17, 2011
Puppy Linux 5.2 "Wary" released - The H Open Source: News and Features
Puppy Linux 5.2 "Wary" released - The H Open Source: News and Features: According to the developers, the new release of the "Wary-series" of the distribution is a "massive upgrade" to the 5.1.x series. It includes an upgraded Linux kernel and has had all of its base packages recompiled
Redis 2.4.0 (and 2.4.1) finally released - The H Open Source: News and Features
Redis 2.4.0 (and 2.4.1) finally released - The H Open Source: News and Features: The Redis key-value store gets updated to version 2.4.0, with virtual memory deprecated but with better performance and memory utilisation among the improvements
ASF says OpenOffice.org is in good health - The H Open Source: News and Features
ASF says OpenOffice.org is in good health - The H Open Source: News and Features: The Apache Software Foundation has defended itself against "destructive statements", assuring users that, four months after the transition from Oracle to the ASF, OpenOffice.org is heading in the right direction
Google's open source search to end - The H Open Source: News and Features
Google's open source search to end - The H Open Source: News and Features: Google Code Search made the mass of open source code searchable, but it doesn't fit with Google's current plans and is being shut down
Native Android GUI developing for Firefox - The H Open Source: News and Features
Native Android GUI developing for Firefox - The H Open Source: News and Features: The Mozilla developers plan to improve the performance of the Android version of Firefox by implementing a native user interface
Arguing with an engineer … – … enjoying it
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud. After a while, you realise the pig is enjoying it.Jamie Lawrence
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
O'Reilly Open Books Project
O'Reilly Open Books Project: O'Reilly has published a number of Open Books--books with various forms of open copyright--over the years. The reasons for opening copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors.
Is Android's bane a boon for Free Software? - The H Open Source: News and Features
Is Android's bane a boon for Free Software? - The H Open Source: News and Features: The satisfaction at seeing Android's rapid ascent in the smartphone hierarchy has led many people to overlook the proprietary elements in the otherwise free code, but, as more patent deals are made, the spectre of the Microsoft tax looms ever larger. Glyn Moody looks at the open source alternatives
Melissa Etheridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melissa Etheridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.
Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals. She has also been an iconic gay and lesbian activist since her public coming out in January 1993."
Friday, October 14, 2011
Google Reader OPML export
www.google.com/reader
I was worried, whether I would ever be able to save my feed subscription list from Google Reader.
And yes, I am able to do that.
Settings > Import/Export > Export your subscriptions as an OPML file.
I did hack OPML files in the past, so that looks quite viable.
I was worried, whether I would ever be able to save my feed subscription list from Google Reader.
And yes, I am able to do that.
Settings > Import/Export > Export your subscriptions as an OPML file.
I did hack OPML files in the past, so that looks quite viable.
RCS: strict / non-strict locking
GNU RCS manual (the official documentation)
GNU RCS manual (HTML - with one web page per node)
GNU RCS manual : the rcs command itself there
A Manual to the GNU Revision Control System (RCS) (by Aaron S. Hawley)
This is the chapter on Locking.
(Sooner or later this link will dangle. Sorry for that.)
I still love and use RCS. Ever since I did an early port of RCS to SysV and I met WFT. That work got paid by Fraunhofer Gesellschaft at Karlsruhe then, and Johannes Röhrich told me to do that. I am glad he did.
Of course I see serious uses for Mercurial, Git, and Subversion, but for my personal use I still think RCS is just lightweight enough.
pros:
- rather, rather lightweight
- integrated into Emacs
- I got quite some experience with it
cons:
- diffs are not compressed
- no concept like team
Why did I start this article today?
I decided to set my .procmailrc into non-strict locking mode, so that I save one command during change+deploy.
I searched the web for the RCS documentation, so that I could refer to it, and I got carried away …
Why did Aaron S. Hawley did not seriously attempt to improve the official texinfo source for the RCS documentation?
What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs
What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs
De mortibus nihil nisi bene – but I agree: things should be said.
De mortibus nihil nisi bene – but I agree: things should be said.
Subversion 1.7 arrives with improved metadata storage - The H Open Source: News and Features
Subversion 1.7 arrives with improved metadata storage - The H Open Source: News and Features: Among many new features the 1.7 release replaces multiple .svn directories with one SQLite database per working copy
Sabayon Linux 7 arrives with experimental Fusion kernel - The H Open Source: News and Features
Sabayon Linux 7 arrives with experimental Fusion kernel - The H Open Source: News and Features: Version 7.0 comes with a choice of the GNOME 3.2, KDE 4.7 or Xfce 4.8 desktop environments, includes native Btrfs support, various package updates and the 3.0 Linux kernel; an experimental Fusion kernel is also available as an option
WineHQ access credentials harvested - The H Security: News and Features
WineHQ access credentials harvested - The H Security: News and Features: Attackers obtained access to users' credentials and encrypted passwords for the WineHQ project's web services
How to Find a Twitter RSS or Atom Feed
Just replace the xxxxxx by the twitter id here:
Just that the RSS feed goes much further to the past and the Atom feed doesn't.
Using this kind of feed helps me following people's tweets from within Google Reader.
- http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/xxxxx.rss
- http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/xxxxx.atom
Just that the RSS feed goes much further to the past and the Atom feed doesn't.
Using this kind of feed helps me following people's tweets from within Google Reader.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Various utilities | Ron Savage [blogs.perl.org]
Various utilities | Ron Savage [blogs.perl.org]
I am actually very tempted to say "various useful utilities", but it's the nature of utilities to be useful. And then utility and use(ful) come from the same origin anyway.
I am actually very tempted to say "various useful utilities", but it's the nature of utilities to be useful. And then utility and use(ful) come from the same origin anyway.
Windows 8 Start Menu replacement: 7stacks | Alastria Software
7stacks | Alastria Software
Maybe quite an intelligent solution, but …
But maybe you should give it a try.
Maybe quite an intelligent solution, but …
But maybe you should give it a try.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
ownCloud web-based storage app hits version 2.0 - The H Open Source: News and Features
ownCloud web-based storage app hits version 2.0 - The H Open Source: News and Features: Version 2.0 of the open, web-based storage application includes a new user interface and support for calendar and address book syncing, and has a new music player with an Ampache server for streaming to desktop players
Adobe: the biggest WebKit contributor you didn't know about - The H Open Source: News and Features
Adobe: the biggest WebKit contributor you didn't know about - The H Open Source: News and Features: Buying PhoneGap just as it turns into an Apache Incubator project is perfectly in line with Adobe's new approach to open source as the place where the innovation is happening, Adobe's director of open source Dave McAllister tells Mary Branscombe
German researchers crack RFID cards - The H Security: News and Features
German researchers crack RFID cards - The H Security: News and Features: Researchers at Ruhr University in Bochum have succeeded in copying the key from one make of RFID card. This enables them to clone the cards, which are used by companies such as transport operators
Key logging virus infects US military drones - The H Security: News and Features
Key logging virus infects US military drones - The H Security: News and Features: The virus has so far resisted all attempts to remove it; however no data loss or damage has been reported
US government continues to target WikiLeaks volunteer - The H Security: News and Features
US government continues to target WikiLeaks volunteer - The H Security: News and Features: Security specialist Jacob Appelbaum remains a target for US government agencies. A controversial law is now being used to force Google and ISP Sonic.net to hand over information on their customers
CyanogenMod 7.1 custom Android firmware released - Update - The H Open Source: News and Features
CyanogenMod 7.1 custom Android firmware released - Update - The H Open Source: News and Features: Following several delays, version 7.1 of the CyanogenMod project's custom Android firmware has been released. Based on Android 2.3.7, it adds support for a number of devices, and new features and enhancements. A beta version of version 7.1 is also available for HP's TouchPad tablet
CyanogenMod 7.1 custom Android firmware released - Update - The H Open Source: News and Features
CyanogenMod 7.1 custom Android firmware released - Update - The H Open Source: News and Features: Following several delays, version 7.1 of the CyanogenMod project's custom Android firmware has been released. Based on Android 2.3.7, it adds support for a number of devices, and new features and enhancements. A beta version of version 7.1 is also available for HP's TouchPad tablet
Monday, October 10, 2011
Transmission BitTorrent client update adds torrent queuing - The H Open Source: News and Features
Transmission BitTorrent client update adds torrent queuing - The H Open Source: News and Features: The new stable release brings improvements on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, adds torrent queuing and GTK+ 3 support, and updates the Web Client. A bug that caused the application to crash on all supported platforms has also been fixed
Google begins to detail Dart - The H Open Source: News and Features
Google begins to detail Dart - The H Open Source: News and Features: Google have pulled the covers back on the Dart language, its web-oriented alternative to JavaScript
Copyright claim against time zone database - The H Open Source: News and Features
Copyright claim against time zone database - The H Open Source: News and Features: The reference database for time zone information is no longer available. Its data is used by all versions of Unix and Linux and by many web sites and Java applications
installing Windows 8 in a Virtual Box VM on OS X
I had read an article that recommended that combination (except for OS X). I am going to give it a try.
I am doing a fresh uninstall, not an upgrade.
Update 2011-10-11:
I had a couple of tries, where the installation just stalled below 20% of "Expanding Windows files".
Currently it's passing the 30% mark ... .
Finally left all the language etc. defaults, and it just ran through.
I am doing a fresh uninstall, not an upgrade.
Update 2011-10-11:
I had a couple of tries, where the installation just stalled below 20% of "Expanding Windows files".
Currently it's passing the 30% mark ... .
Finally left all the language etc. defaults, and it just ran through.
installing Visual Studio within a WinXP VM on OS X
That looks like a really, really funny idea to me.
This is only an evaluation version of VS, and I intend to continue working with that evaluation version through occasional re-installations in fresh snapshots of the mother-VM.
I got to try a C#/.net software package, and I hope this approach will help me.
I downloaded the 4 files (1 * .exe, 4 * .rar) using wget. That took quite a while, even through VDSL.
The installation also is quite a lengthy process, although it's not asking me a lot of question. I went for the full installation. You never really know, what you are going to miss otherwise. The installation succeeded.
I got the software in question to get executed.
This is only an evaluation version of VS, and I intend to continue working with that evaluation version through occasional re-installations in fresh snapshots of the mother-VM.
I got to try a C#/.net software package, and I hope this approach will help me.
I downloaded the 4 files (1 * .exe, 4 * .rar) using wget. That took quite a while, even through VDSL.
The installation also is quite a lengthy process, although it's not asking me a lot of question. I went for the full installation. You never really know, what you are going to miss otherwise. The installation succeeded.
I got the software in question to get executed.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Skrooge 1.0.0 personal finance manager released - The H Open Source: News and Features
Skrooge 1.0.0 personal finance manager released - The H Open Source: News and Features: The first major stable release of the open source personal finance manager includes new grouping functionality and new report templates
LibreOffice - a dive into the unknown - The H Open Source: News and Features
LibreOffice - a dive into the unknown - The H Open Source: News and Features: The Document Foundation (TDF) and LibreOffice turned one year old last month, and it has been a good year. LibreOffice was a dive into the unknown, and an opportunity to prove what the community already knew: that a chance to swim free could only bring positive results
The Linux Foundation welcomes three new cloud vendors - The H Open Source: News and Features
The Linux Foundation welcomes three new cloud vendors - The H Open Source: News and Features: Eucalyptus Systems, Nebula and Virtual Bridges join the non-profit organisation to help the growth of enterprise-level Linux
Syrian internet censors' log files released - The H Security: News and Features
Syrian internet censors' log files released - The H Security: News and Features: At a meeting of Arab bloggers in Tunisia, internet activists from Telecomix released 54 GB of log files that were created by Syrian internet censors
Apache's own Java EE stack: TomEE - The H Open Source: News and Features
Apache's own Java EE stack: TomEE - The H Open Source: News and Features: The Apache Software Foundation's TomEE project aims to unite the world of Java EE and Tomcat with a single stack of Java EE certified Apache-built technology
Google and Samsung postpone Android "Ice Cream Sandwich" event - Update - The H Open Source: News and Features
Google and Samsung postpone Android "Ice Cream Sandwich" event - Update - The H Open Source: News and Features: Following an leak of the next Nexus device's alleged specifications, Google and Samsung have postponed next week's "Unpacked" event at which they were expected to reveal Android Ice Cream Sandwich and the new smartphone
Saturday, October 8, 2011
CPAN: Scrappy - The All Powerful Web Spidering, Scraping, Creeping Crawling Framework
Scrappy - metacpan.org: "Scrappy - The All Powerful Web Spidering, Scraping, Creeping Crawling Framework"
O'Reilly Media book: Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
replaced by: Head First HTML and CSS
this one is outdated!!!
Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML - O'Reilly Media
A Learner's Companion to HTML, CSS, and XHTML
By Elisabeth Robson, Eric T Freeman
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Released: December 2005 (yes, it's a little older, and it doesn't cover HTML5 yet, but still!!!)
Pages: 704
This is a really attractive book for learning.
I guess I am going to look this series:
this one is outdated!!!
Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML - O'Reilly Media
A Learner's Companion to HTML, CSS, and XHTML
By Elisabeth Robson, Eric T Freeman
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Released: December 2005 (yes, it's a little older, and it doesn't cover HTML5 yet, but still!!!)
Pages: 704
This is a really attractive book for learning.
I guess I am going to look this series:
Thursday, October 6, 2011
CSS: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition - O'Reilly Media
CSS: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition - O'Reilly Media
Chapter 8: Padding, Borders, and Margins
it has a nice picture (Figure 8-2) on the CSS box model – maybe every book on CSS has a picture like this, but this one is really quite nice.
Chapter 8: Padding, Borders, and Margins
it has a nice picture (Figure 8-2) on the CSS box model – maybe every book on CSS has a picture like this, but this one is really quite nice.
the Android Contacts app on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is operational again
It had blown up immediately after starting it for a couple of weeks right now, and I was quite a little desperate about it, but then I was also too lazy investigating the case, because I was busy with other things.
Today I was ready to look into it, and search the web for it, or to describe the case in the right mailing list or where ever.
But before doing that, I tried this and that on the tablet. Went into Settings > Applications > Manage applications > All > Contacts.
I just clicked on "Force stop" and then "Clear data", started the app again, and everything was fine.
Why didn't I try that before? I wasn't confident enough with Android and this Samsung tablet. I got some literature, but I don't manage to read it. Too many important issues.
Update;
Actually the Contacts / Contacts Storage app on my Samsung Galaxy SII smart-phone got corrupted the same way. I applied the same procedure as above, and I can properly work with my address book there as well again. Relief!
Today I was ready to look into it, and search the web for it, or to describe the case in the right mailing list or where ever.
But before doing that, I tried this and that on the tablet. Went into Settings > Applications > Manage applications > All > Contacts.
I just clicked on "Force stop" and then "Clear data", started the app again, and everything was fine.
Why didn't I try that before? I wasn't confident enough with Android and this Samsung tablet. I got some literature, but I don't manage to read it. Too many important issues.
Update;
Actually the Contacts / Contacts Storage app on my Samsung Galaxy SII smart-phone got corrupted the same way. I applied the same procedure as above, and I can properly work with my address book there as well again. Relief!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Red Hat acquires cluster filesystem vendor Gluster - The H Open Source: News and Features
Red Hat acquires cluster filesystem vendor Gluster - The H Open Source: News and Features: Red Hat has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Gluster, the company behind user space cluster/cloud filesystem GlusterFS
o'Reilly School of Technology: HTML and CSS -- CSS-P: Positioning with Style Sheets
Introduction to HTML and CSS -- O'Reilly School of Technology
I hope, I will complete this lesson this afternoon.
Actually I would like to complete the entire course tomorrow.
I hope, I will complete this lesson this afternoon.
Actually I would like to complete the entire course tomorrow.
CSS: Margin and Padding Shorthand
I asked myself: In which order are the 4 values listed, and it took me a while, to find a serious statement on this.
From CSS: The Missing Manual, Second Edition.
… You’ll frequently want to set all four sides of a style’s margin or padding. …
… The order in which you specify the four values is important. It must be top, right, bottom, and left. If you get it wrong, you’ll be in trouble. In fact, the easiest way to keep the order straight is to remember to stay out of TRouBLe—top, right, bottom, and left. …
From CSS: The Missing Manual, Second Edition.
… You’ll frequently want to set all four sides of a style’s margin or padding. …
… The order in which you specify the four values is important. It must be top, right, bottom, and left. If you get it wrong, you’ll be in trouble. In fact, the easiest way to keep the order straight is to remember to stay out of TRouBLe—top, right, bottom, and left. …
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Android trojan hides behind QR code - The H Security: News and Features
Android trojan hides behind QR code - The H Security: News and Features: QR codes can save time when downloading Android applications, but one security vendor has found they are being used to deliver malware to phones
Chrome updates to repair Microsoft false alarm damage - The H Security: News and Features
Chrome updates to repair Microsoft false alarm damage - The H Security: News and Features: An update to Google's Chrome browser (stable and beta versions) should repair the damage caused by a false alarm from Microsoft Security Essentials virus scanner
my online course(s) with O'Reilly School of Technology: "Client-Side Programming" Certificate
Client-Side Programming Certificate -- O'Reilly School of Technology
Started the HTML+CSS course, making good progress.
Will be good entertainment to survive our beloved national holiday over here in Germany.
I think it was a very good idea and opportunity to start this.
After this, I guess I will go for the Database Administration Certificate.
And after that why shouldn't I do fun RoR stuff?
Update 2011-10-02 (completing lesson 7):
Looks like this course material is rather old, they even mention Netscape, just as if it would be state of the art technology.
The course teaches me align and valign for table, but they are gone in HTML5. We are going to use styles instead, i.e. CSS. Alright. Took me a while, to find a statement on how to do this in HTML5. Found that statement at w3schools at last.
Update 2011-10-04 – lesson 11: CSS-P
Errata:
Lesson 7:
Started the HTML+CSS course, making good progress.
Will be good entertainment to survive our beloved national holiday over here in Germany.
I think it was a very good idea and opportunity to start this.
After this, I guess I will go for the Database Administration Certificate.
And after that why shouldn't I do fun RoR stuff?
Update 2011-10-02 (completing lesson 7):
Looks like this course material is rather old, they even mention Netscape, just as if it would be state of the art technology.
The course teaches me align and valign for table, but they are gone in HTML5. We are going to use styles instead, i.e. CSS. Alright. Took me a while, to find a statement on how to do this in HTML5. Found that statement at w3schools at last.
Update 2011-10-04 – lesson 11: CSS-P
Errata:
Lesson 7:
- ... about
thethis tag ... - … Cellspacing controls the amount {of} space …
Lesson 9 – Cascading Style Sheets:
- … Using CSS you will be able {to} control and change the style of multiple elements more easily.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Engine Yard's PaaS adds support for JRuby - The H Open Source: News and Features
Engine Yard's PaaS adds support for JRuby - The H Open Source: News and Features: Java developers can now run their applications on Engine Yard's Platform-as-a-Service, since the platform now offers JRuby support
Ubuntu One gets official Windows client - The H Open Source: News and Features
Ubuntu One gets official Windows client - The H Open Source: News and Features: After ten months working on the beta, the Ubuntu One team has announced the release of an official Windows client for its managed file storage and synchronisation service
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