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Saturday, February 14, 2004
A CSS table which stays in the right place, but it's hardwired, which isn't very nice :o( http://www.gwyncole.com/blogfiles/gwync/MyCSSTable.htm
Hmmm... I wish you could do with CSS what you can do with tables!!! somewhere, a LONG time ago (like 3+years) I read that the <TABLE> tag was invented for displaying data in a tabular form, not for page layout... well... I'm sorry to say, that while CSS was invented for formatting and page layout etc, it doesn't (yet) do as good a job as things like "I want a box at the bottom of my page, split into three equal boxes which will re-size with the page, and a box on top of that the width of the page... and I want it all to still work the same way in different browsers and I don't want to have to hard-wire specify the size in pixels - so that it will work the same on a smaller or larger screen too..." fixed dimensions for page layout suck - unless you are fixing something like an image along the side of the screen... i.e. It's probably ok to have an image in the top left corner, and something else immediately to the right of it (or below it) and want that to sit hard against it.
It sucks having to have a gazillion nested tables on a page, all that extra overhead of source, and hard to keep track of while working in a text editor... but CSS isn't up to the job yet. Oh, and I LOVE finding pages on the web preaching that you shouldn't use tables for page layout... and then you look at the source of the page and they're... using tables for page layout!
Hmmm... I wish you could do with CSS what you can do with tables!!! somewhere, a LONG time ago (like 3+years) I read that the <TABLE> tag was invented for displaying data in a tabular form, not for page layout... well... I'm sorry to say, that while CSS was invented for formatting and page layout etc, it doesn't (yet) do as good a job as things like "I want a box at the bottom of my page, split into three equal boxes which will re-size with the page, and a box on top of that the width of the page... and I want it all to still work the same way in different browsers and I don't want to have to hard-wire specify the size in pixels - so that it will work the same on a smaller or larger screen too..." fixed dimensions for page layout suck - unless you are fixing something like an image along the side of the screen... i.e. It's probably ok to have an image in the top left corner, and something else immediately to the right of it (or below it) and want that to sit hard against it.
It sucks having to have a gazillion nested tables on a page, all that extra overhead of source, and hard to keep track of while working in a text editor... but CSS isn't up to the job yet. Oh, and I LOVE finding pages on the web preaching that you shouldn't use tables for page layout... and then you look at the source of the page and they're... using tables for page layout!
Monday, February 02, 2004
StumbleUpon looks really cool, but it's a bit scarey... what's in it for them ? are they spying on us ?
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Hmmm... I'm quoted in China or should I say "taken out of context and *mis*-quoted in China!!!
(also here)
Which has been scraped from http://freshmeat.net/projects/fetchmail/?topic_id=28 at some stage...
Which *used* to have the Cooler URL http://freshmeat.net/p/fetchmail/
(also here)
Which has been scraped from http://freshmeat.net/projects/fetchmail/?topic_id=28 at some stage...
Which *used* to have the Cooler URL http://freshmeat.net/p/fetchmail/
I hope all this work for SETI gets to be useful one day... seems like it ain't... how long should one keep going before giving up hope ?
Class of Jul 19 2000
There are times some people have expressed concerns over the security of running SETI, and
Sometimes I wish I could really be contributing to something useful!!!
(like do they really need supercomputers for DNA sequencing ? Is part of the job number crunching or pattern matching ? can't we help out too ?)
Class of Jul 19 2000
There are times some people have expressed concerns over the security of running SETI, and
Sometimes I wish I could really be contributing to something useful!!!
(like do they really need supercomputers for DNA sequencing ? Is part of the job number crunching or pattern matching ? can't we help out too ?)
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
God I love Google!!!
Thinking about writing a script which when given a list of files (or just two files?) goes through and looks inside each one and stores what the value of each byte is, then compares this with the next file... so that I could make it tell me what they have in common - to make writing a magic file entry easier... like a multi-file diff by byte not by line...
I searched for: Google Search: xxd in perl (because xxd and od -c are my tools of choice for deconstructing files...) and I get this:
Voltarian [simple] Perl Golf (xxd )
:o)
Now the hard bit is done... ;o)
Thinking about writing a script which when given a list of files (or just two files?) goes through and looks inside each one and stores what the value of each byte is, then compares this with the next file... so that I could make it tell me what they have in common - to make writing a magic file entry easier... like a multi-file diff by byte not by line...
I searched for: Google Search: xxd in perl (because xxd and od -c are my tools of choice for deconstructing files...) and I get this:
Voltarian [simple] Perl Golf (xxd )
:o)
Now the hard bit is done... ;o)
Monday, January 12, 2004
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