Internet Explorer 7 doesn't seem to like the max-age= way of defining cookie aging. It doesn't like this (i.e. no persistent cookie is created): document.cookie = cookieName + "=" + cookieValue + "; max-age=" + (60*60*24*365) ; // 1 year in seconds But does like this:...
A string of XML: Text Node Send it through xmllint: echo 'Text Node' | xmllint --format - Output from xmllint: Text Node
I have been attempting to use the <pre> tag to simply copy and paste information into Wordpress but the result has been that it doesn't accept all the whitespace as being whitespace. Anyway I installed WP-Syntax plugin and attempted to insert some code and it...
Every month I have to submit page counts to our printer supplier. Usually it involves connecting to each printers administration webpage counting up the different totals (black/white, colour) and then sending that back to them. Here is a VBScript function that calls...
Just playing with wine-1.1.14 and found a font smoothing script that enables font smoothing on Wine >= 1.1.13. Anyway in the script I noticed a command: type -p wine Which after a little investigation is similar to which wine I like to make note of these sorts of...
I have been taking some output from our ERP system into a webform destined ultimately for resubmission to the ERP. XML and it's relationship to HTML makes it perfect for the job. Therefore I have been using Perls XML::DOM to read and write some XML. One issue I have...
I just removed all the standard Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice 2.4.1 packages and installed Openoffice from Openoffice.org's download area by following the howto here. After going into Tools ==> Options ==> Language Settings ==> Languages and setting everything to English...
If you jump from one distribution to another and then back to an older version one of the gotcha's can be that later versions on newer distro's can change your Subversion Working Copy repository data so it's unaccessible from the older distro. Case in point: On Ubuntu...
OK so I attempted CentOS 5.2 as a desktop OS but it just doesn't cut it. You have to Google till you're cross eyed to get MP3/WMV support. Then when you enable the right YUM repositories you get cross repository conflicts that can't be resolved. Fooey. I also found...
OK so I've been using Ubuntu for about three releases but recently the quality of the Ubuntu builds has become an excercise in running into bugs that stop me getting my work done. e.g. tsclient renders X session unuseable when rdp'd into windows NetworkManager OpenVPN...