Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 1st, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,107 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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... |