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Re: IOgear KVM

danielcole — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:18:39 -0000

The little gopher thing in the corner really helped coalesce the technical confusion that is a KVM

Re: The Linux Install

danielcole — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:38:46 -0000

The Permalink is broke for somereason on your most-recent post, so I'm writing here... Fedora has been working pretty well for me. I'd drop Gnome for KDE. I use Ximian at work and it's just difficult to use compared to KDE. Gnome tends lean on the minimalist side, while KDE gives you the most options, and therefore customability. I personally don't mind a multipage prefrence page if it means I can do what I want to. John Ebel uses Mandrake and likes it well enough, but I tried it a while back and switched to something else pretty quick. YUM does not work worth a crap. Still does not have things that it should, like gimp2.0. I've been thinking of getting a spare tower and loading Debian, I've heard nothing but good things about apt-get.

Re: Mandrake and Me

danielcole — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:15:42 -0000

I'd try gentoo, but I simply don't have the time to compile each and every package... Is it really all that necessary to spend 10+ hours compiling KDE? It seems like reinventing the wheel way too much.

Re: Mandrake and Me

danielcole — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:04:21 -0000

responding to the window not fitting within the screen thing, pressing down alt and holding the left mouse button will drag the window around the screen, regardless of what part of the window you're clicking on (not just the title bar). not an obvious thing to try if you didn't know about it.

Re: A Good Cheese Stick

danielcole — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 01:09:11 -0000

woot! go cards! 6-2 in the 9th. rock on. on to the world series...

Re: How To Build a Web Application

danielcole — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 03:25:55 -0000

It seems like my job has turned into 50% internet install, 5% webdesign and 45% web app development. I've created (from scratch, since I wanted total control on how things worked) a blogging system, user login (admin and reg. user), network status monitor which mixes ping tests with port scans and some scripted logging into remote machines to verify that they are up and responding, and now I'm starting an online web database to manage our various class-c's (IP addresses, for those not so tech-inclined), since there are currently about 4 people that keep seperate lists and that causes all the updating problems you can imagine. The network status monitor and the IP list apps will eventually be merged into one system. eventually.

Re: How To Build a Web Application

danielcole — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:47:09 -0000

I'm guessing that's the website that you code for? Looks nice as well. How many people are there working on it?

Re: How To Build a Web Application

danielcole — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:07:19 -0000

"The Search returned Zero Results" for p0rn. boooring

Re: What iMac?

danielcole — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:24:19 -0000

CARDINALS WIN!! CARDINALS WIN!! I demand a post reflecting this immediatly. I'm counting the seconds

Re: Take tabbed browsing to the next level

danielcole — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:47:39 -0000

If today I had a time machine to stick my head outside tomorrow, and the next day then no, WeatherFox would not be all that usefull.

Re: Guess I won’t be shaving yet…

danielcole — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:37:11 -0000

Thank goodness we won't have to sit thru endless refrences to dual Texas v. Mass. races... btw: I found your TextAmerica Blog... glad to see you spent so much time there. I'm at danielcole.textamerica

Re: Boston: No More Excuses

danielcole — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:46:31 -0000

do you realize that 'noone' is acutally 'no one'?

Re: I’m Covered in SPAM!

danielcole — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:54:17 -0000

So, I'm not stalking or anything, but I check this site along with slashdot, fark, and a few others a few times daily (ah, the life of a codemonkey with a net connection). I've not ever see any comment spam here. Do you delete it a few minutes after it arrives? (btw, happy 102nd comment)

Re: I’m Covered in SPAM!

danielcole — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:42:23 -0000

plog is turning out a bit better than b2evolution. found myself a nice template and the user interface is mostly-straightforward. Some things are broken, though. You can add a new template, but in the 'delete template' page there is nothing listed even though there's 5 installed.

Re: I’m Covered in SPAM!

danielcole — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:06:28 -0000

maybe if you bitch loud enough you can squeeze a free subscription out of them.

Re: I’m Covered in SPAM!

danielcole — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:11:17 -0000

hummm.... how could you incorporate the playboy spam into your cafeshops.com stuff? you know there's an opportunity there someplace.

Re: I’m Covered in SPAM!

danielcole — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:41:46 -0000

"HellYeahBitch.com - If it's good enough for Playboy, it's good enough for you!"

Re: Open a Few Ports For Bittorent

danielcole — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:47:54 -0000

or you just know where the internet terminates at a few unrestricted fiber links.... ahhh, the joys of working for an ISP. Must Use Knowledge For Good, Not For Evil. For Good! ... ... Not Evil!... Evil So Tempting...

Re: Hell Yeah Bitch! .com vs SPAM (Round 2)

danielcole — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:36:51 -0000

spam

Re: Apple iPod Socks

danielcole — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:31:37 -0000

jeeze man - what's with this slurry of updates? bored at work? I pod sock. I've heard of them, but didn't really believe. You Ipod people are a little off, you know that?

Re: Speakers FINALLY Go To 11

danielcole — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:47:40 -0000

I'm playing with Firefox's Live RSS feature, and I was wondering if you were able to add a rss feed for your comments along with your aritcles?

Re: Comments Comments Comments

danielcole — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:42:15 -0000

Wow. Talk about 'ask and ye shall recieve'. Now I'm waiting on you to buy me that 15 inch powerbook I've been drooling over...

Re: Another “G4TechTV Sucks” Article

danielcole — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:41:02 -0000

I thought Leo and Patrick were a good duo - Leo was the smart-but-wacky one and Pat was the Alpha-Geek. But, with that said, I've not switched G4 on for months. Makes me reconsider why I'm paying $4 extra a month for the extended channels when TechTV was the main reason... And this most recient fireings of TechTVers is total crap - how can you make people uproot their lives, move to a new city, and then fire them 2 months later? The Dirty, Sleezy Suits should be ashamed of themselves, but that would require a conscience.

Re: CSS vs Tables

danielcole — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:23:21 -0000

Yeah, I've got no problems with using a table here and there to make things line up properly, like in a one-line message header having the title left-justified and the date right-justified. I've tried to get the CSS to behave, but no positioning tricks I could do would work. And then the CSS just got bigger and more complex, so then a table (1) Smaller code-wise (2) Code so much easier for a human to read and edit later, if need be. In other news, I've abandoned plog and I'm trying geeklog. I hate the current color scheme, and I need to do quite a bit of CSS tweeking, but so far so good. It allows for people (loged in or not) to leave comments, and submit whole blog-messages (display after admin approval for anonymous people), which is exactly what I was looking for. Register an account, and tell me what you think - I'll give you access to a couple admin-level things.

Re: CSS vs Tables

danielcole — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:28:37 -0000

Also, what the hell good is going thru all the trouble of making a CSS2 (or even CSS1 for that matter) website when Internet Explorer, the most commonly used browser in the world, isn't 100% Compliant? Forgetting CSS, can you imagine how the online world would look if IE would just provide support for PNGs with transparency like Gecko browsers do?

Re: Another Reason To Hate America

danielcole — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:55:34 -0000

Wow. that's got to be the most unintelligent and offensive comment flame I've read all week. What I get from your comment: (1) People who know about things that you don't are dick chokers (2) The people who raised you and your parents are worthless peices of shit because "they are going to die soon". Talk about utterly heartless. (3) Three... Well, I had a three but I forgot it. It was a good number three, you believe me. I just hope that your whole comment was a joke that I took waaay too seriously.

Re: pseudo-OS X

danielcole — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:40:06 -0000

I assume by your recient HYB activity that you are back from vacation... How was the trip? Are the shakes gone from the lack of 'net access? Any progress on choosing new blogging software?

Re: Daisy Duke

danielcole — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 02:01:21 -0000

-threadjack-
So, I'm watching the extras on the Spiderman 2 DVD and Toby M. mentions that he had signed up for 3 films. Does everyone know about the third movie and I've been under a rock, or is this new news?
-/threadjack-

Re: Daisy Duke

danielcole — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:44:46 -0000

I am a huge fan of the first Bourne. Not a fan at all of the Second. Each action scene was cut together from a thousand 1/8th second video clips - not impressive at all in my opinion. Now, I've not seen the first one in a long time, so my memory may be off, but I remember longish action scenes that were only a few cuts put together - the actors actually had to play out the movements. This is not a comment on the movie as a whole though - I thought for an action movie the characters \ dialogue \ plot was entertaining enough. For an action movie, though, gimme something like "The Rundown" with The Rock. Not that it was Oscar-winning, but Damn - they DID those stunts.

Re: Calling All Photoshopers!

danielcole — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:10:25 -0000

Cody, that portfolio is impressive. 3d rendering is not the sort of thing I do much of. I focus more on the manip \ restore of existing photos and some text-based stuff. if cody's what you're lookin for, mike, i take myself out of the running.

Re: Make Your Own Tablet Mac

danielcole — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:21:11 -0000

heh. looks like you beat slashdot to the punch by 2 days on this one

Re: Moving…

danielcole — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:30:20 -0000

Where's the new place at? I'll be in town this weekend - More than happy to drop off a house-warming 6 pack of your favorite brew...

Re: Free DNS and VPN

danielcole — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:33:17 -0000

http://www.dyndns.org/services/dyndns/ when you've got a dynamic IP. Has client support for nearly every OS out there. Supposed to be free, but like I said, never used it myself. A google search on 'linux vpn' returned ~2,050,000 hits, so I would say yes, yes there is a vpn client for linux. And like the above, I know nothing about it. I guess this whole comment just goes to show I like to type, wether I know anything or not.

Re: RIAA: Here’s Your Lump of Coal

danielcole — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:03:20 -0000

hahhaha - I love it. I've never read downhill battle, but I'm an instafan.

Re: Help For A Out-Of-Touch Gamer

danielcole — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:04:48 -0000

I believe that x-box hacks are ok for as long as you don't login to X-BoxLive

Re: Fun With Un-Secured Security Cams!

danielcole — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:59:43 -0000

I've not rtfa yet, but I've played with a few of the security cameras we have a work - they're bunches of fun. A lot are powered-over-ethernet now, so there's just one wire to run.

Re: Mac Mini

danielcole — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:49:18 -0000

what is 'iWork'?

Re: LaVar Burton: Blind To His Lack of Fame

danielcole — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:31:18 -0000

Maybe he was pissed that his royality check from 'Trekkies' was not enough to cover buying an Airport Extreme router.

Re: Germans Love “What a Feeling” Song

danielcole — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:13:31 -0000

I would like to request a total ban on all future bare-chested photos of David Hasselhoff, even for meaningful illustrative purposes. You cannot, I repeat, cannot imagine the harassing I got at work today when someone saw good 'ol Davie pan across my screen.

Re: Make a Whiteboard Wall

danielcole — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:44:07 -0000

there is also a paint that turns your wall into a chalkboard. You know you miss the classroom dust.

Re: PHP Sessions Weirdness

danielcole — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:48:41 -0000

Unless you can compete with CollegeHumor we've got enough Linsday. I'm running into a cookie problem myself, where I'm trying to allow the websurfer to hide or show the right hand menu (the weather, google search, top virus info...).
You'd be amazed at how many many many people still have their monitors set to 800x600, which makes a 3-column layout look extremly cramped. But since this is my first real foray into the cookie world, I imagine the problem is just my general lack of knowledge.

Re: Why Hell Yeah Bitch.com?

danielcole — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:59:02 -0000

I can see main-stream sites having a PC issue with the name. Mebbe have two domains that point to the same website? One for the Old Fogeys and the other for the South Park Generation?

Also, your g. ads link to hand creams. I find this funny.

Re: Asterisk Setup: Complete

danielcole — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 03:40:56 -0000

As I work at a telco, I'm very intrested in hearing about the setup process and what usage is like...

Re: On the front page of Digg

danielcole — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:49:49 -0000

I've never seen digg.com before. Within 5 minutes I found an answer to a CSS question I've had for a while.
Awesome site, and yet another distraction from work.

Re: So I’m not the new Pope

danielcole — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:33:41 -0000

you had my vote, man.

Re: To PSP or not to PSP, that is the question.

danielcole — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:06:58 -0000

I don't have much to say about points 1 2, but regarding #3:
It's *usually* always better to wait for the second-generation product to fix a bunch of bugs. However, with the plethora of hacks already surrounding the PSP I'd worry about Sony crippling it to make more $$$ just like T-Mobile did with the Sidekick II.

It's up to you to gamble if Sony really will expand the feature set in the future or decide to make the PSP tougher to crack.

Given Sony's proprietary nature, I'd bet on the latter.

Re: To PSP or not to PSP, that is the question.

danielcole — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:10:03 -0000

Also, I saw 5 PSP boxes sitting at Hastings this weekend. I take it they're not flying off the shelves anymore?

Re: Tiger: Shipped

danielcole — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:03:40 -0000

How soon do you think it'll be before the Mini's ship with Tiger? I just bought myself a new 19" monitor and I'm still in the "it's ok to spend crazy amounts of money" mentality. I think I'm going to get the cheaper one - it's not that much slower and I don't really need the 80gigs of space (it'd be a different story if I did video, but I don't).
I will upgrade to 512mb and get the WiFi/Bluetooth so that ups the price to about $675. Mike: as a long time mac-guy, you see anything I should do different? Is that extra .17ghz really worth the $100?

Re: Tiger: Shipped

danielcole — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:37:49 -0000

Well, to be fair it's $100 for .17Ghz + 40Gig of Harddrive. I guess I'll be ordering my Mini sometime tomorrow.

Re: Hell Yeah Bitch gets “Live Searching”

danielcole — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:47:37 -0000

That's pretty nifty. And Quick - I didn't see any lag on when it was updating.
You want comments? I've got one: I usually surf with the text 1 size bigger than default because small text hurts my eyes. Everything still lays out correctly when bigger except the search textbar - it flows outside of its container. I think removing the size="20" and adding style="width: 100%" will make it scale regardless of the browser's font size. The search results window that pops up does scale nicely.

Re: Semi-Useless Tiger Tricks

danielcole — Thu, 05 May 2005 11:37:03 -0000

I get the negative colors thing - sometimes everything is just too bright. Like on a Sunday morning after a late night at the bars.

But why would you want to rotate the screen on a *book? Or any laptop for that matter. I think that would make reading what you type rather difficult.

Re: Use CSS to make big checkboxes, radio buttons

danielcole — Fri, 06 May 2005 20:57:19 -0000

It seems that Firefox is not the same across all platforms. In windows the black dot in the radio button scales along with the button, but in linux the black dots stays the same size as a normal button.

Re: Tiger: So Far So Good.

danielcole — Mon, 09 May 2005 19:17:39 -0000

It Arrived!! My Mini Arrived!! Huzzah! Huzzah!

Now I get to relearn how to do everything, just like I did when I switched from Windows to Linux. I can't wait.

Re: Tiger: So Far So Good.

danielcole — Tue, 10 May 2005 12:17:08 -0000

Will Do. Gimme a week to play with it and I'll give you a full report. Everything is good so far after one night.

Re: The Pirillo Effect

danielcole — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:03:07 -0000

Well, it was a good theory but there's been no CP sighting yet....

Re: Microsoft Kills “My” Folders

danielcole — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 02:11:57 -0000

Incase someone doesn't read all the comments on every slashdot story, Tim Browse had an interesting thing to say:
"All the spaces in default folders are (were) Microsoft's way of forcing app developers to cope with spaces in filenames.
Quite an elegant way of doing it, imho."

Now, here's how little I remember of the bad old days (pre-mac-mini): Did the 'My' revolution and long filenames start at the same time? If they did then Tim's right - fairly elegant of MS to force us to use long filenames.

Re: Mary-Kate Olsen Is Pissed Off

danielcole — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 23:28:54 -0000

To Mary-Kate's credit, I'd be pissed off too if 24-7 there were photographers trying to document my every stumble, sneeze and buttscratch.

Re: “Cool Guy T-Shirts” found to be not as cool.

danielcole — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:40:04 -0000

I think they're mega-fun because of the mega-room inside to get mega-laid

Re: YAAP: (Yet Another Apple Posting)

danielcole — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:35:29 -0000

My brother is studying abroad for 5 months in Vienna (he's on the airplane right now!) we've set up Skype so that we can keep in touch without the huge international phone bills. The iSight gets fairly warm even when I'm not using it so at first I would unplug it when not in use. Pluging it in to use Skype launches iChat, which knocks me off of Fire (instant messenger) which then launches a few warning dialogues (fun, huh?). I've been keeping the iSight pluged in 24/7 for the past while and I've been having much less problems except that last night on Skype it did die on me when my Phone Conference ended. I know it died because in System Prefs -> Sound there is a slider that registers the volume coming in from the mic. When it dies that slider is stuck at 0%.

Re: Recieve 802.11b from 12 miles away, only 25% signal loss

danielcole — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:18:18 -0000

yeah, my job isn't all fun and games but it does have it's perks.
Have you ever checked your email on your laptop --

-- from the car while going down the highway?

Re: eMacs suck to work on.

danielcole — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:14:34 -0000

yeah, I knew that servicing my MacMini would be a pain in the ass before I bought it. If you compare total computers sold vs. broken parts I figured that harddrives and computer parts don't break all that often. If something goes bad in my Mini I'll try to fix it but by that time it will probably be time to go shopping for a more up-to-date machine anyway.

Re: One year older…sadly no more mature.

danielcole — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:38:55 -0000

Heh. My birthday's this Sunday. I'll be moving furnature and unpacking boxes. Happy Birthday, Mike.

Re: The 501st Post

danielcole — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:21:06 -0000

383rd Comment! w00t!!

Re: How to f*uck a sign

danielcole — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:34:00 -0000

that site is getting bookmarked. for certian.

Re: The Gizmo Project

danielcole — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:41:09 -0000

My brother's in Vienna Austria for the semester. We use skype a lot to keep in touch since it's free from pc to pc, and a few cents per minute for pc to telephone (even international). I'll try gizmo with ya Mike, but it was a hurdle enough getting my parents signed up with Skype (because of them being them, signing up with Skype is pretty easy) I don't know if I have the endurance to go thru that again.

Re: The Gizmo Project

danielcole — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:42:46 -0000

And regarding the interface, it looks like a near carbon-copy of Skype plus adding a map.

Re: Clean URLs Are All the Rage

danielcole — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 23:06:31 -0000

I switched mt.net over to clean urls a few months ago (away from .php's). I was having trouble getting my reg. expression correct in the .htaccess until I realized that it's easier to just pass the entire url argument string to index.php and parse it there.

Now the whole site is database driven and adding a new 'page' is just adding a new entry into a mysql table. I can specify page title, icon, and if it's a public or password-protected page.

There was a problem with having the .htaccess in the root folder and bleeding into other areas of the webserver (test sites, internal stuff, etc). Putting a one-line .htaccess with 'RewriteEngine off' turns it off for all url requests for that subfolder and below.

Also realize that a lot of places link to specific pages on your site (random blogs, Google). If you drop the .php extension entirely your 404 Error page will explode. For a while you have to make sure to write your redirect expressions to account for both types of requests. I don't know how MT organizes files at all, so this may or may not be a problem. On my homegrown site it was a biggie.

Re: It’s Time to Buy a Mac

danielcole — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:06:23 -0000

for the record Windows was installed on Drive C.
Who ever can't see the humor in the computer wanting to format itself is taking this all too seriously

Re: View Hot Chicks From Different Zipcodes

danielcole — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:24:51 -0000

were you getting a bunch of question marks too instead of photos of people? other than that, pretty nifty.

Re: CVS Digital Camcorder Hack Getting Closer to Finished

danielcole — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:54:40 -0000

I'm pretty sure there's a CVS right across the river in Belleville Il.

Re: Google Talk

danielcole — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:38:11 -0000

I could not get this to work last night with Fire. Kept getting a error that asked me if I wanted to create an account (or something). I'll fight with it some more tonight.

Re: Google Talk

danielcole — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:20:19 -0000

alright alright. I got it working. I had not checked 'Use SSL' before. I've got buddies on AOL, MSN, Y!, ICQ, and now GTalk. This is using the Jabber protocol which is nice when compared to the other networks since Jabber is a completely open standard - open to anyone and everyone.
Google doesn't usually do something without making it notable in some respect - what do you think they have up their four billion dollar sleeves?

Re: Google Talk

danielcole — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:12:05 -0000

This is only your fourth network? you wuss.

Re: More Large Mammal Webhate

danielcole — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:46:07 -0000

I respect your relationship with your farm animals, Kassy. I have a dog at home and I could never imagine killing and eating him.

I hate the Cow Itself. Screw what it does to the land, those animals have caused me nothing but trouble. I've had to watch other people eat cake and ice cream at every birthday party I've ever been to while I get a bag of jelly beans, including my own birthdays. Can you imagine little 5 year old Danny sitting at a party table with all his 5 year old friends and not getting any cake?
Denny's, TGIFridays, Applebees, TacoBell, Hardies, Dominios, PizzaHut, Olive Garden, Steak 'n Shake etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc are all off limits because of beef / cheese / milk / butter / cow.

Cows? Kill 'Em All.

Re: Learn How To Comment on a Site

danielcole — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:44:49 -0000

first post

Re: Comedian Makes E-Hecklers Look Stupid

danielcole — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:09:29 -0000

that was spectacular

Re: How To Keep Your Monitor 50 Feet Away From Your Box

danielcole — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:34:04 -0000

Wikipedia:TV_Resolutions

Re: Calvin Likes Snowmen

danielcole — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:45:59 -0000

the way you rail on free webhosting providers cracks me up every time.

Long Live Bill Watterson

Re: Ugly Woman Claims To Be Baby Stolen By Dingo

danielcole — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:09:43 -0000

erin types like she was raised by dingos.
but not smart dingos. you know, the slow ones that nobody feels comfortable talking about.

Re: Apple’s New iMac: Released or Not?

danielcole — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:28:30 -0000

Did you know that grown-up Evie did a movie with a nude scene? Oh the wonderful trivia one can gleem from google image search...

Re: Who Uses 800×600? Anyone?

danielcole — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:24:56 -0000

I install internet at people's homes so I have the pleasure of seeing a lot of different computers in any given week. While most people are a 1024x768 or more, there are a *good* number of people still at 800x600 (and I swear to God - I've seen Win98/WinME @ 640x480 more than once). I figure people keep these resolutions for one of two reasons: Bad eyesight - I myself have stopped using some websites because they've made the text so damn small, and my eyes are mostly ok. And 2: They may not know how to increase the resolution. Yeah, HYB.com is a geek's geek website so I imagine that most of us have an idea of what we're doing. But if you're designing a website to be used by the general public you have to remember that even if your user has internet and can find your site, there's still no guarantee that they know how to use their own computer.
There. There's my 13.5 cents

Re: Who Uses 800×600? Anyone?

danielcole — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:20:50 -0000

I would be ok with a javascript-type-thingie that scanned the user's window size and if it saw 800x600 it would add a top banner disclaimer saying that they should upgrade their screen resolution. Nothing that prevented the rest of the page from loading, no popups or anything of the like, just a top banner saying "hey dumbshit - 800x600 sucks. This is how to make things look better."

Re: I Want A Boot Video

danielcole — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:55:24 -0000

is this the ghost of Joe? good to meet you.

I don't know how you'd get it to load at startup, but I'm sure you could whip up something cool in quartz composer.

Re: Hell Yeah Bitch! .com Tries Google Analytics

danielcole — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:05:59 -0000

yeah, I put that up on my site too. should have results in an hour or two. did you notice that the google analytics site was s--l--o--w?

Re: Hell Yeah Bitch! .com Tries Google Analytics

danielcole — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:35:19 -0000

yeah, I was wondering about that too! I've been waiting for my reports and nothing yet. I think I had something in my domain setup askew, but I got that fixed over '12 hours' ago.
It's also not safari-friendly, which confuses me because the report tables are flash-based. I've never written a flash anything so this me typing without knowing anything, but what in a flash app could work in one browser and not another. I always thought it was akin to the java virtual machine model where as long as there was a flash plugin for whatever you were using the flash app would work.
Please, someone tell me why I'm wrong.

Re: Hell Yeah Bitch! .com Tries Google Analytics

danielcole — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:48:03 -0000

I've got data now as of this morning. It looks like there's a ton of reports to look at. There's only one day of data to look at, but some inital numbers are intersting:

Going back to a previous topic, 49% of the visitors to my company's website have a 800x600 screen resolution. I think it's a long time before 800x600 dies enough that you don't have to support it any more.

Re: Hell Yeah Bitch! .com Tries Google Analytics

danielcole — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:55:09 -0000

#--------------------------------------------------------
# Screen Resolutions (rough)
#--------------------------------------------------------
Screen Resolution - % Visits
800x600 - 48%
1024x768 - 39%
1280x1024 - 5%
640x480 - 1%
1280x800 - 1%
1680x1050 - 1%
1280x768 - 1%
1120x840 - 1%
1152x864 - 1%
1280x720 - 1%
1400x1050 - 1%
1920x1200 - 1%
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Re: So everyone hates the new design…

danielcole — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:10:05 -0000

I'm more or less indifferent on the design. Personally I really liked the blue background that the vector art ninja created - Email that to me, would you mike? It's going go on my work pc.

There is one thing though I've got to say about this new design...

what's the f*cking deal with the internet explorer icon in the banner graphic? it turns my stomach looking at that damn logo.

Re: Dan is Released from his SBC Shackles

danielcole — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:48:07 -0000

yeah, I should have gone after the first two flunkies about why they couldn't see that I was a customer for 3 years and shouldn't have a disconnect fee. Would have made for a better story for sure.
but I didn't. oh well.

Free cable + internet for 5 months? You must have some quality argumentitive skills... I have an ex-landlord that screwed me out of a deposit check I might have you call.

Re: Another Lazy Links Post

danielcole — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:56:50 -0000

Water damage is not covered, sorry. Stand in line with the rest of the emotional geeks.

Everyone needs a rubber bracelet. that means you too, Mike. At least this one is somewhat functional.

Brad sucks is indeed quite nice. Lost of free downloads too - someone who understands where the business of music is heading.

Don't know. I hope better than Word -> html. I thought that I read somewhere in the MacWorld coverage that Apple had started a company blog using the iWeb software, but I cannot find it.

More than a handfull just means eventual strech marks.

Re: The Sidekick III: Should I Get One?

danielcole — Tue, 30 May 2006 22:03:40 -0000

i didn't read this.

Re: We Endorse Short People Dancing

danielcole — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:30:31 -0000

I saw an Indian lady today who had six toes

Re: Gratuitous Kate Beckinsale and Friends Photo #51: Michelle Trachtenberg

danielcole — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:40:14 -0000

she was Buffy's sister in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'

Re: The Useless But Cool Screensavers List

danielcole — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:00:35 -0000

http://pcheese.net/software/soundstream/

(and yes, I do still read HYB every once in a while, although I'm a total dork and it kinda fell off my radar and I have no excuse, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.)

--danielcole