The ArcterJournalRants and Musings Since 1996Dear Javascript Gurus out There...- April 25, 2006 I have a bit of code that is using the excellent free XUpload progress bar. I've modified it a bit for my current project, and am having some performance issues due to some javascript I added. What happens is the main <FORM> tag has an onSubmit() action of calling a StartUpload() function. I've added code to the start of the fuction to check to see if a delete file button has been pressed, and if it is the button and not the 'upload' button, it simply returns and doesn't open the file..http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2006/04/25/dear_javascript_gurus_out_there.html Ripping out the Back Yard- April 24, 2006 No, not a nasty sexy euphemism, we started some work in the back of the house in preparation for a mini-machine that Firefly will be getting in. A friend of ours who is a landscaper came by and basically wandered through the yard saying "that's gone, gone, out of there, get that stuff out, gone, gone, gone, that that's gone..." and so on. Luckily this basically justified what my thoughts were, which was rip everything out and start from scratch. Get rid of the old hedge, forget moving the...http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2006/04/23/ripping_out_the_back_yard.html Photographer of Female Life in the Israeli Army- April 20, 2006 This is pretty cool..... Serial No. 3817131 is a site by a photographer who wanted to portray the life of young girls in their manditory term in the Israeli army. When I first got to the site I didn't know what the heck it was, then I went through the pics and was very impressed, you definately (I feel) get sucked into the world that the young women get to live in. It's a strange contrast, one picture are these young girls bonding and laughing, the next they're out in the desert or at the...http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2006/04/20/photographer_of_female_life_in_the_israeli_ar... Thurrott on Vista... Not Happy- April 20, 2006 Interesting insight in Paul Thurrott's latest Vista article. Paul is someone who I've often had resentment for, simply because of his (apparent) steadfast love of Microsoft and all things Bill. Turns out that he's a bit more fair and balanced than that, and I apologize for the misgivings I had for him. Of course, maybe I just like him cause he's bashing MS :) Basically it sounds like he's sick of apolagizing for microsoft. He points out that Vista has gone through far more turmoil than it..http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2006/04/19/thurrott_on_vista_not_happy.html Household Duties- April 20, 2006 Finally it was not raining long enough today for me to cut the grass. Gads what a job... it hasn't been cut since august of last year or so, so it was in rough shape. Even with the wheels on the mower set to their highest setting the bag still filled up in about two rows. Even after I was done my only comment to Firefly was "this backyard needs to be firebombed". Happily enough, I hear a rumor that FireflyBro is going to be bringing over a little machine that we can use to do all the "yard.http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2006/04/19/household_duties.html A New Computer (But Not For Me)- April 17, 2006 A few months ago a buddy of mine said he wanted a "new computer". He's not a real techy guy so extracting what he actually wanted was a bit hard. "Something that plays games" is pretty ambiguous, so it ended up coming down to how much he wanted to spend "I donno" and what he wanted included (IE: did he need just a new box or did he want monitorkeyboardmousespeakers, etc). After some prodding, and a call to my favorite computer store in vancouver (Phase 1, whom I have no affiliation with...http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2006/04/16/a_new_computer_but_not_for_me.html BattlestarGalacticaThon- April 17, 2006 This weekend was a good weekend so far. Mostly relaxing, an early morning this morning to do some taxi duty, other than that I had a couple of folks over for a last minute Battlestar Galactica-athon. Other than some issues with playing the DVDs with the episodes burnt in my DVD player (which normally plays AVIDivX just dandy), all went nice and smooth. Didn't get through all of it, most of season one (including the pilot 2 part movie) and then started in on season 2, getting to episode 14...http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2006/04/16/battlestargalacticathon.html DIY Rackmounts- April 12, 2006 Ooooohhhhh.... how to make How-To: Rackmount your gear for cheap. I'm adding this to my TODO list :)http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2006/04/12/diy_rackmounts.html How to Pull An All-Nighter- April 8, 2006 Some cool instructions on How to pull an all-nighter. And last but not least, don't be a wimp. You have to be hardcore. You want that all-nighter. You need that all-nighter. You will get that all-nighter, and then you will tear a phonebook apart with your teeth. Man, I could have used some of this info back in the college days, I just went on coke and the fear of not having whatever it was that was needed done for the next day.http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2006/04/07/how_to_pull_an_allnighter.html No Reason not to Buy a Mac Now- April 7, 2006 Well, other than price that is. If you get an intel based Macbook you can download a nifty little utility from Apple called Boot Camp which allows you to set up a dual boot of windows xp vista and linux. Apparently games play nice and fast as well.... So now you have the sexyness of apple hardware, the sexyness of OSX and all the apple apps, and all your normal windows apps as well, plus the availability of Vista when it ships in 200. The next step I would hope is the ability to run...http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2006/04/06/no_reason_not_to_buy_a_mac_now.html |