Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Thunderbird 2.x Movemail Account on Fedora Core 8
Friday, February 1st, 2008

Sadly, Fedora Core 8 doesn’t ship a packaged version of Thunderbird (2.0.0.9 as of this writing) that includes movemail capabilities. Movemail is the account type (in Thunderbird) that allows you to read mail from your local system (in /var/spool/mail/[username]). If you run cron jobs, you should be getting emails about the status of [...]

Amazing cover of Outkast's Hey Ya
Saturday, August 19th, 2006

What do you get when you mix a hippie with Andre 3000 in the desert? A great cover of Outkast’s Hey Ya. We’ve been checking out the best of the best for our new Southern Arizona guide that should be out later this week and came across this amazing video of Mat Weddle from the [...]

Save the Bell Labs Holmdel Facility!
Monday, July 10th, 2006

While browsing one of my favorite tech-news sites, Digg.com, I found out that PREI has plans to demolish the old Bell Labs Holmdel Research Facility. While I am not old enough to have been a direct part of the historic research which was conducted at the facility, I am directly indebted to the men [...]

Well, that about settles that question…
Thursday, July 6th, 2006

If it weren’t already obvious, I’m a geek.
198 (I’m not joking either!)

Save the internet! Fight for net neutrality.
Saturday, July 1st, 2006

The above video is very informative. Everyone should help to fight companies from taking over the internet.

And so the eon8 ruse ends…
Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Well, over 24 hours and almost 1000 unique hits (that’s a lot for my site) later, the truth is revealed. Turns out, it was just some 23 year old guy from Florida, named Mike, playing a trick on the masses of the internet.
Eon8.com was a work of pure genius. It accomplished exactly [...]

eon8.com — WTF!?!
Friday, June 30th, 2006

UPDATE!!! Eon8 has been deployed!! Read about it here!!
So, browsing online tonight, I ran across eon8.com. If you ask me, the whole thing kinda creeps me out. But then again, I’m somewhat of a conspiracy theorist.
Ok, so here’s what I’ve gathered from different sources on the internet:

The site includes a countdown [...]

Correcting the 2 pixel difference in the width of a div in IE and Firefox.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

This is one I struggled with for a long time. The menu at the top of my site was always giving me trouble. It would always be two pixels off when I looked at it in firefox vs. IE. This is because IE screws up the box-model. I won’t go into [...]

100% height divs
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

This is a problem I ran into recently while working on a new website. How do you make a div extend the full length of the browser window? This used to be the domain of tables (yuck!), but CSS comes to save the day. Here’s the code:

html, body {
/* We’ll [...]

Centering content using CSS
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

This is an often asked question:
How do I center stuff on my website without using tables?
The answer is amazingly simple. It also validates as correct CSS, and best part of all… it doesn’t use tables!
Here is the CSS:

body {
/* We’ll make sure IE centers the stuff properly. */
text-align : center;
}

#wrapper [...]