Monthly Archives: August 2003

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 last few days training SA to recognise the new spam and this morning my inbox is empty once more!
My bulging SPAM folder has reached 6.5MB (No, I don’t get that much spam, I haven’t emptied it since Aug 6th!) and hardly a false positive in sight! Happy times indeed!

The Cool Passion of Dr. Dean

TIME Magazine ran a series of articles last week on Howard Dean, the presidential hopeful. I hadn’t a clue who this guy was, except that Kevin Lyda and others were pushing his website occasionally. The Time article above is balanced, showing the good and bad sides of the candidate.
In the printed article there’s a chart drawing comparisions between Dean and Bush. They’re not so different…

Found in a Red Hat kernel spec file

Thanks Waider for this..
#
# Dear Mr. or Mrs. Journalist,
#
# The changelog below is a list of modifications that have been made
# to the kernel at one time. By no means does this text reflect any
# official position of Red Hat, Inc. nor does any text reflect what
# is in the actual current kernel, due to the fact that we actually log
# tests and one-off builds as well.
#
# Sincerely yours,
# Arjan van de Ven
# Red Hat Linux kernel maintainer.
#

bah – IE6 privacy features

Argh! Had a fix a problem on one of our sites – users were complaining that some of our content wasn’t showing. On testing, nobody in the office could find anything wrong. All the code used is several months old and has worked well in that time. This thread explains a bit more about the changes in IE6, and the requirement for a “Compact Privacy Policy” on your site.

Css, Printer Friendly Pages & Page Breaks

I’m working on a user list at work, and one requirement is a printer friendly version, listing one user per page. What I’ve done in the past is have the user click on a button to download a .doc file with End Of Page characters embedded in it. Word would oblige by skipping to a new page.
I decided for this application I wanted to go the CSS route to printing.
All the “Printer Friendly Pages with CSS” tutorials were useless when it came to inserting page breaks, but after a bit of searching on Google (mainly because I didn’t use the term ‘page break’) but I eventually came across this thread on devshed.

#break
{
PAGE-BREAK-AFTER: always;
}
…..
<P ID=”break”>some content</P>

This will print a page break after the text some content!
Now I have a really nice web based list of users, and hitting print on the browser produces a neat pile of pages, one user per page.
I also found a bug in Mozilla Firebird! While in “Print Preview” mode, refresh the page using ctrl-r. It’ll bring up the original page but will keep the browser in the preview mode! Yes, I’ll take a look in Bugzilla for it tomorrow. I’m off home now!

I made it..

I’m in Chicago, but it’s been yet another hectic day. No rest for the wicked as they say.

Thanks Andrew for sending my old demos – I’ll have to install Vice again to take a look at them but I’m really grateful you had them lying around. I was certain I had lost the C-Force demo for good years ago!
Update! On the flight over I had the pleasure to talk to Mary Meade and her husband. Hi Mary, told you I’d mention you here!

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