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Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 1st, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 1,107
Posted By MattEvans
What your asking is very probably against the terms of the licence of the software.

If you're wanting to 'test' on Vista as in try out the product on a new OS, consider contacting a spokesperson...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 10th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 816
Posted By MattEvans
That image is an 8-bit per pixel PNG, and 8bpp PNGs can only contain 1 bit transparency ( a pixel is either fully opaque, or fully transparent ). With higher bpp PNGs, you're allowed to use alpha...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 25th, 2008
Replies: 17
Views: 3,391
Posted By MattEvans
Your present user figures speak for themselves. You certainly need to keep supporting IE6 until it's in negligable use.

The best way to solve the problem is to---from the beginning---only use...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 16th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,444
Posted By MattEvans
Thread moved to Software Developers Lounge, since this question was multiply-posted and thus probably doesn't relate specifically to Web Development.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 14th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,444
Posted By MattEvans
The only way to stop "piracy" is to release truly open, public domain, software; nobody can pirate something that's already theirs!

I guess that's not what you want to do, though. As Auzzie said,...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 9th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,950
Posted By MattEvans
I've considered that to; but I've never experienced a virus on Linux and wouldn't know where to start finding out if or not I have one. Worrying; if that's the case.

That said, I really stick to...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 9th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,950
Posted By MattEvans
Well, 'disabling' the scroll lock using xmodmap doesn't seem to have had any effect, because the activity of _my_ scroll lock is still 'formally non-deterministic'. It sometimes does nothing for an...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 8th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,950
Posted By MattEvans
Well, the whole scroll lock/sysrq/break well is pretty clean compared to the main well; I don't use scroll lock or those other 2 keys much in day-to-day workings.

But, really good idea to remove...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 7th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,950
Posted By MattEvans
Really not sure if this a hardware or software issue.. My scrolllock seems to have gone AWOL. The indicator LED doesn't light up when I press the scrolllock key; but, occasionally, the LED lights up,...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 6th, 2008
Replies: 12
Views: 2,595
Posted By MattEvans
Ooh! I know this one!

Cause of the problem: Users who can't spell.

Hope that helps.. O_o
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 29th, 2007
Replies: 13
Views: 2,683
Posted By MattEvans
Well, certainly not everyone who perhaps 'deserves' a high ego has such a thing in all areas of their life, I wouldn't expect that... Let's say ego is relative; there's 2 valid definitions of ego;...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 29th, 2007
Replies: 13
Views: 2,683
Posted By MattEvans
Well.. call me wrong but the party with a noticable ego trip seemed to be the guy asking for the review.

People with a deserved high ego can be a little annoying; but they're rarer and generally...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 22nd, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 7,680
Posted By MattEvans
Quite alot if you want the windows forms to actually open from a page or link on a user's web browser. You'd have to either; convert the VB standalone application to an ActiveX application, and use...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 12th, 2007
Replies: 13
Views: 2,683
Posted By MattEvans
His replies were more extreme ( and personal ) than your statements. He is the one being 'overly' anything, by being 'overly childish' in his reprisal. His site looks ok, perhaps he just wanted a...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 1st, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 7,858
Posted By MattEvans
You need access to an SMS gateway. You can hire this access from a number of companies, usually they'll charge a subscription or usage fee. I can't recommend any, but that's what you need; heres some...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 30th, 2007
Replies: 17
Views: 3,084
Posted By MattEvans
...Perl kicks PHP's scrawny unmanageable a$$... But both are inperfect for different reasons.

C++ is rule for web applications; not easy to use admitadly, it doesn't natively have the text...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 21st, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 881
Posted By MattEvans
Lol. I didn't mean to offend either.

The problems with making a browser that updated on every W3C change are massssive. The W3C typically leave 'implementation details unspecified', so there's...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 21st, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 881
Posted By MattEvans
er... who's your target audience. will they be using IE5? you ( should ) know your target audience better than anyone.

i wouldn't design for IE5. It's not up-to-date with modern standards, and...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 20th, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 1,687
Posted By MattEvans
Would you use linux ( more ) if it wasn't for the GPL, or do you have other misgivings about the platform?

I really like the GPL and other free movements most of the time; in that I can get most...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 19th, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 1,687
Posted By MattEvans
In short... that'd be quite difficult.

I don't avoid all GPL'd code/programs/etc on my system; but I do carefully read the licenses for any library I depend on in a project, because I wouldn't...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 18th, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 1,687
Posted By MattEvans
Two quick, related, questions; totally unrelated to anything I'm doing or considering doing. I'm talking about C/C++ programs specifically, since I'm talking about header files, but, I guess the...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 15th, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 10,294
Posted By MattEvans
lol.. didn't think of that.

did you try the first one I posted? that shouldn't hit the same problem.. because grep is opened with one line of arguement at a time.

otherwise; try this one:
...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 15th, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 10,294
Posted By MattEvans
Here's a simpler one in the same vein:
grep "some_string" `find some_folder -name "*.some_extension"`
i.e. grep "cerr" `find . -name "*.cpp"`

note backticks (`) rather than single quotes around...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 14th, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 10,294
Posted By MattEvans
Try this; it relies on the 'find' command.
find . -name "*.php" -exec grep -H "some_string" {} \;
Which translates in english to.. search (find) in this folder (.) for files matching the filter (...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 14th, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 10,294
Posted By MattEvans
grep -r --include=*.php "some_string" some_directory

works in GNU grep 2.5.1

post output of `grep --version` and `grep --help` if that doesn't work... there might be another way.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 14th, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 1,197
Posted By MattEvans
this site lists some downloads for old versions:
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=msie

however. your windows xp+ infected computer might not allow you to install an old ie while you have a...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 28th, 2007
Replies: 1
Views: 1,011
Posted By MattEvans
To see if cookies are enabled; try and set a cookie and then try and read it back. If you can't, cookies are disabled.

To see if javascript is available and the version, try and use some...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 2nd, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 2,045
Posted By MattEvans
There is nothing specific about blogs that generates more traffic. Unless you have something interesting to say and enough interested people to visit frequently; a blog will generate no more or less...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 21st, 2007
Replies: 1
Views: 1,289
Posted By MattEvans
Your usage of '.' is possibly bad:

blogs/(.*)/(.*)/$
blogs/(.*)/$

Both of these will match for 'blogs/folder/folder/'. Because '.*' means anything including 'folder' or 'folder/folder' So, in...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 12th, 2007
Replies: 22
Views: 4,343
Posted By MattEvans
It's not so much 'bandwidth overkill', Flash is good in terms of filesize; often smaller than bitmaps ( including gifs ) and even movie formats; considering images in Flash are usually vectors and...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 7th, 2007
Replies: 17
Views: 3,734
Posted By MattEvans
it does seem a bit leniant to give another chance after giving a 24 hour cease and desist warning already.. if he doesn't remove the hidden hiearchy as it can be accessed via HTTP, definately go...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 7th, 2007
Replies: 22
Views: 4,343
Posted By MattEvans
i don't have flash (on my favorite browser, out of choice), besides, using flash to replace simple animated gifs is mega-overkill, and flash doesn't work well atall with CSS (each 'movie' has to be...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 30th, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 2,612
Posted By MattEvans
Technically; .org is for non profit organisations; .com is for companies, and .info is a new one for just about anything informative.

In reality, it's up to you. I prefer .com; because if you type...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 30th, 2007
Replies: 22
Views: 4,343
Posted By MattEvans
Indeed; but until it isn't; IE Version 6 is a big target platform, and I can't tell any client to upgrade their browser and expect to keep them. I wish I could! I'd get the whole world on Opera if I...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 30th, 2007
Replies: 22
Views: 4,343
Posted By MattEvans
PNG transparency doesn't work well for me in a webpage context on Microsoft Internet Explorer <= 6; PNG background transparent images have a grey background instead (notably; my connection does funny...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 24th, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 1,643
Posted By MattEvans
Your question needs more clarification; development of what, and maintenance of what:

#include <iostream.h>

int main(void)
{
std::cout << "Hello, world!";
}

That code cost more (time) to...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 24th, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 2,860
Posted By MattEvans
Wow. I remember thinking that rant, but I'm quite suprised that I actually posted it..

I suppose, in light of the dredging-up of this topic; I should give an update. I don't use LiveMail anymore,...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 22nd, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 1,868
Posted By MattEvans
Well, it's a 'well made' product; and I suppose it helps with project/site management aswell, so it's more than just a text editor. Basically, it's a text editor, a (nasty) live editing tool, an ftp...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 19th, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 1,868
Posted By MattEvans
The latest dreamweaver is quite good, but don't rely on the 'live-edit' features; if you don't know HTML they wont help you learn, and if you do know HTML you'll find them to be a hinderance.

As...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 17th, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 1,355
Posted By MattEvans
Perl is a good language for isolating and extracting data from formatted text (i.e. (X)HTML). Some parts of Perl are like C++, most of it isn't; but it's easy to grasp.

XSLT can be used to extract...
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