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It gets interpreted before it even leaves the server - no chance of you getting at it from the client side.

I see this in Firefox 3 RC 1, Gentoo Linux at 1400x1050. Note the search button and the box. [attachment deleted by admin]

Aerosmith - Big Ten Inch Record (We may have gotten off track a bit.)

Just take out the last sentence. It's confusing, and ultimately unnecessary.

It's actually in the RC (release candidate) stage now, Crayon Violent. (And I've been using it since the very first beta, with very few significant problems.)

Maybe we could allow members to have small blogs, and promote worthy content to the "front page" after peer review? Slashdot has done very well with that model.

I think the man has a point, gentlemen. The regulars will be able to take advantage of the more localized boards, and the newbies can use the general board because they don't know any better - and if they spend enough time here, they'll learn the proper places for everything. (Hopefully that won't take more than a day or two per person.) If we wanted it to work properly, though, we would have to find a different way to do it - a different organizational scheme. I don't think sub-boards will work very well for this.

My absolute favorite: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/

Yep, that's the cookie problem rearing its ugly head again. I thought I fixed that - apparently not. I'll post back here when I get it sorted out. I suppose this isn't good for the overall reputation - I was hoping that it'd be stable by the time I "launched" it.

I just watched an episode of M*A*S*H in which some British soldiers introduced an idea to the hospital unit that so many generations have fallen in love with. They described Boxing Day (the day after Christmas, for those of us not in countries that celebrate the holiday) as a traditional holiday on which the masters of the manors trade places with the servants. The British unit had apparently translated it to the officers and enlisted men taking on the (less life-threatening) jobs and responsibilities of the others, as an exercise in boosting morale and understanding of the way "the other half lives". (Hilarity ensues as the company clerk smokes expensive cigars and the commanding officer types requisition orders at a rate of eight "Damn!"s per minute.) I've never heard of this, nor has my research turned up anything on the subject. I've come across a few similar traditions in my browsing - for example, I've read that the masters of the house would give Christmas gifts (the equivalent of Christmas bonuses for today's employees) to their servants on the day after Christmas. In medieval times, it was apparently custom for the lord to make gifts of clothing, food, firewood, and other practical gifts to the serfs living on their land. What I'm wondering is this: Is there any basis of fact for this? Was this common in the old times (or modern), or just celebrated by very few people, or even celebrated at all? Was this just a story-telling mechanism? I'm very interested in any insights you may have.

Apparently the problem wasn't with the session cookie. I was expiring one cookie before another, and wasn't properly checking for both of them before doing things that depended on both of them.

Orio: I've been having some odd problems with cookies - I've found that when that happens, you usually have two PHPSESSID cookies set. If you delete them, you should be all set. I think it had something to do with me setting the session.cookie_lifetime to one week, but I've un-done that.

abid786: The following are always true. x * 1 = x x % 1 = 0 So your example is actually a fine example of an infinite loop. And while this is a huge hack and completely dependent on PHP's disregard for types, it works: <?php $float = 45.767; $a = intval($float); // I prefer floor, but that's all it is - a preference. $b = ($float - $a) * (pow(10, strlen($int)-2)); // strlen($int)-2 takes care of the "0." that automatically gets prepended. ?> roopurt18: I think mine is the clear choice here. It impresses way more people when you look at a bunch of cryptic nonsense and say "Yeah, I know what that means." Yours is too easy to understand.

Orio, I think you'll be pleased with the latest revision. I've moved the link sections to the edges of the link pad, and have provided enough room for the forms to show up without pushing anything out of the way. It also made more sense to put the important links on the left. (Thanks for inspiring it.) This way, no matter what your resolution is, the upper left corner will always have all the links you need to make it operate. I've also fixed some IE display bugs. It turns out that just using a Reset CSS file doesn't fix nearly as many IE/Firefox inconsistencies as I'd dreamed.

It's still there. I moved save/load/close to the left-hand side, and tips/privacy/feedback to the right.

I'm trying not to be stuck in the mindset of "Imitate Opera", because I want this to be useful even if you're not familiar with Opera. They have a very good idea, though, so I want to take "advice" from them if I can. The images are cached with an expiration time set to 12 hours. The service I'm using to get the thumbnails (thumbalizr.com) is relatively slow to generate new thumbnails (about 30 seconds per thumbnail), and I'm afraid that's just too long to not cache them. And you're right - the images are very difficult to get any real content out of; I guess I hadn't considered that case. I interpreted Opera's implementation (and designed mine accordingly) to mean that the images are just a visual identifier - you have to do considerably less work to pick out the familar Google logo or the PHP.net design, than to read the label.

Right now, absolutely nothing happens. I'm thinking of adding three more, as that's been a pretty popular request - but I have some serious qualms about making it expandable, and here's why. I think Opera hit the nail on the head when they only let you put 9 in their speed dial. (I think 12 would be fine too.) In my head, this is a quick reference of the sites that you are most likely going to want to visit when you open a new tab/window, or start a new browsing "thread", or whatever. If you were to have 15 or 16 or 20 boxes there, I can't help but imagining feeling a little overwhelmed, and I think it might take longer for you to find the one you want. (I tried 16 in the Firefox speed dial extension, and I remember thinking that it was very crowded.) And, most importantly (to me), I'm worried about link clutter. Even now, I'm trying to find ways to rearrange the six small links that I have, and maybe even remove one or two. If I were to let users expand their collections, I would probably have to use pagination, and then they'd need some way of navigating, and that probably means links. I might be able to use keyboard bindings, but I'm not sure how well that would work with unknown environments. But I just realized that I'm starting to tell the users how my software should be used, when I should be making it so they can use it however they want. If anybody has any ideas for implementing pagination links, (cleanly - either no links at all, or placed in unobtrusive locations) I'd love to hear them. I don't want people to be saying "I'd use it if it weren't for the fact that..." I can deal with people using it in a way that I didn't design it for, but I can't deal with a complicated interface.

I thought of that, and I tried it - but I think it detracted from the "clean, simple, and useful" feel I was going for. And I certainly appreciate the need for professionalism, but my vision of this program didn't involve investors, or advertisers, or anything. (I would be willing to put a small advertisement at the bottom. It would have to be plain text, though, and I'm not sure if any advertisers would let me do that.) It's just supposed to be a neat, useful tool. It should do exactly that, what browser/OS are you using? I hadn't thought of that. I'm not sure about the boxes, but I'll see if I can move the links. I'll see what I can do. What resolution are you viewing it at? Thanks. It's always nice to hear that. And Tom, I'll see what I can do about that. Maybe a curl check might help.

That's good. I was really worried that I wouldn't make it as intuitive as it could be. And the bravado expressed in the title of this thread was far exaggerated - I've since received some very pleasant reviews, so I'm only now getting to be confident in its abilities as a tool for everybody. I am worried about one thing in particular, but I'm waiting to see if anybody complains about it before deciding that it's a problem. I thought of that, but I tried it out and I think I liked it better sans images. (It was designed from the start with the goal that it'd be clean and simple.) If more people are of the same opinion, though, I'll give it a shot. And I'm very glad to hear that you liked it.

Introducing a browser-independent, accessible-anywhere tool that makes your internet experience easier, like the one so loved by so many Opera users: http://sticklinks.net If you like it, tell your friends. And if you don't, tell me why. Also, if you have suggestions for UI tweaks, those are welcome as well. I wrote it, so I know how it's supposed to work; if anything is unintuitive, you guys are the ones to know.

I could argue that the reason they are going to stop selling XP is that they make more money from Vista. (And the "upgraded and better" part is up for discussion, too.)

TheFilmGod: Not being sold != not being supported. acidglitter: I've had a Dell Inspiron 600m for two years, and the previous owner had it for the same amount of time. In those two years, it has become one of my favorite machines. I think they've superseded it with the 640m, but I would gladly buy another one. It's portable enough to take to school, powerful enough to play foobillard and play movies, and the 1440x1050 resolution means that you don't really lose any screen real estate. (You can't exactly read it from across the room.) I've had to do a few upgrades/repairs: Hard drive: 40GB to 80GB. About $100, IIRC. DVD drive: it came with a DVD reader/CD burner, but I wanted a DVD burner. $60. New display: After about two years, the display stopped working. After spending $10 on a replacement inverter board that wasn't the problem, a $75 display fixed it. And Dell publishes their service manuals on their website, so any warranty-voiding you may want to do is a lot less stressful. A few other tidbits: It does, from time to time, get warm, but I've found that putting hockey pucks under the corners allows for better airflow. The display hinge can act up if it wants to - every once in a while, the screen gets interlaced with pink lines. Adjusting the display fixes it.

Um... what? I'm pretty sure you mis-read something. And, Tom, when you say that you "loaded grub", what do you mean? And did you have /boot mounted at the time you were running "root (hd0,5)", "setup (hd0)", etc., in grub? If not, I think that might have something to do with it.

Just as I was somewhat satisfied to report that Sun would be closing down bits and pieces of MySQL (I don't much like MySQL), I am equally satisfied to report that Kaj Arnö, VP of MySQL's Community Relations has announced that they've reversed their earlier decision re: closing it down.

Very odd - admins, can you take a look?