I was viewing the Guinness World Records website. After browsing it in Firefox awhile, I decided to analyze it from the perspective of a different browser. I saw the Internet Explorer information bar appear notifying me that a popup had been blocked. OK, fine. I clicked it and chose for popups to be allowed temporarily….Continue Reading…
I searched all over the web and had a terribly difficult time of finding a complete MP3 version of “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,” the song at the beginning of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the movie based on the book by Douglas Adams (based on the radio series). I found…Continue Reading…
This used to be on the php.net reference page, but it’s no longer there. So I’ll post it here for reference. In order for 301 redirects to work properly in PHP with IE (without showing a Page Not Found error), do the following: header(“HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”); header(“Location: “.$url); header(“Connection: close”);
I punched “Apple Mighty Mouse” into Google and came up with a cool image that I thought I’d combine with Apple’s new Mighty Mouse to create a comparison of then and now: Yesterday’s mouse had one button. Today’s mouse has a scroll ball, touch-sensitive top-shell, force-sensing side buttons, optical tracking… oh, yeah, and two buttons….Continue Reading…
A single button mouse is one of the most ridiculous things that Apple still holds to. As if it makes the computer “easier to use.” Do people only have one finger? (My apologies if you do.) Two button mice make more sense. Two buttons increases overall productivity by 30%. (80% of statistics are made up.)…Continue Reading…
I’ve learned more about networking in the last week than I did in the past year. DSL modems, such as the Westell Wirespeed, typically assign IP addresses based on MAC address. The MAC address is supposed to be a unique identifier for every piece of networking equipment. Of course, I’d always known some ISPs limit…Continue Reading…