Archive For August 12th, 2003

Russell on Schwarzenegger

Russell Beattie doesn’t pull any punches critizising Arnie. Ahem, I have to agree with him, but as I can’t vote in California, it doesn’t bother me too much! (200 standing for the election and counting according to the paper this morning, including a 100 year old woman!)

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Movies for your pleasure at Pocket Movies

Just visited PocketMovies.net again after a long hiatus. There’s a plenty of goodies to download! Loved the Happy Birthday one, it’s cute!

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Posting from 2.6 . . .

Err, wow! I just booted into Linux 2.6 and am shocked at how speedy everything is. The mouse cursor acts like it’s on steroids. Browser windows pop up really fast. The GIMP loaded quickly. I loaded 3 photos from the baseball game on Sunday into the GIMP. Each is 2560×1920 pixels, or between 1.8MB and [...]

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Multi-part forms with css

Simon Wilson linked to an improved on a nice multi-part form built with css. It looks great, it’s fast, but I see one other major problem: validation. For the server to validate the input it must check all the input when the form is completely filled out. The browser can do initial testing using Javascript [...]

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Linux.ie and free software projects

Prompted in part probably by this report on the state of GnuCash, Linux.ie will now accept banners from Open Source projects looking for a bit of attention. There’s more details on the page above, but be aware that not all banners will be accepted, and less mature projects won’t get a look in at all. [...]

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That spam-free feeling

Ah, yes. It’s a good morning when there’s no spam in your inbox! Over the past few days a new breed of spam found it’s way into my inbox. This new spam was short in length, almost completely html based with short sentences and didn’t ever score over 3.5 on Spam Assassin. I spent those [...]

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