Re: [vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma
Windows Vista which should be coming out by January-February. I wouldn't waste your time with XP. This is a windows world and wont change anytime too soon. - Original Message - From: "Rod Roark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma On Sunday 17 December 2006 11:10, Jeff Newmiller wrote: Rod Roark wrote: ... > Sure would be nice to find some good open source tax software. Seems like a nice idea, but it has to be updated every single year, in a timely manner, and it has to be accurate, before people start using it. I don't object to paying for an online service for this. It's not the cost -- TaxCut is pretty cheap. I'd just rather use my normal OS to run it. An online service is out, as I'm not willing to needlessly hand over my financial details to a third party. Rod ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Standards sticklership [Re: [vox-tech] Fwd: css: cell width and height]
> From: Peter Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm always amazed that I aced through a year of quantum field theory but CSS > continually baffles me to no end. > > If I have some html tables, and set the height and width CSS property for > each td element, is it guaranteed that each cell in each table will be the > exact same height and width under all circumstances? > > If not, is there some way of saying "Look here, browser. As Zeus is my > witness, you will make this cell 3em by 2em no matter what!" I'm pretty sure the answer is: no. I don't think there's a way to make an absolute guarantee that your size will not change. There's something you should know about CSS, too: it is a very powerful and flexible stylesheet language, but it's not quite complete, and support for it in any browser I can think of has never been, either (this includes Firefox and Opera, though AFAIK Opera is the better of the two in that regard). This and other W3C specifications insist that CSS should always be used for formatting instead of things like tables, and yet they have more or less failed to provide some of the /precise/ levels of control available via old-fashioned, reliable-but-deprecated HTML table formatting (or, in some cases, mainstream support for CSS has failed to provide the appropriate level of precise control demanded by the spec). I am ignoring the "cheat" of using CSS to trick the browser into thinking that a given element should be rendered as a table or table cell: that amounts to pretty much the same thing, in the end. For this reason, CSS is one of those things where it is often impossible to be both pragmatic /and/ completely correct (from a standards perspective). This actually is true of HTML itself in certain cases as well. I myself am very much a standards stickler, and tried for years to write only ever standard-conforming code (as I still pretty much continue to do with C and C++). This is not possible in many applications. So: use CSS wherever possible. It is by far the best choice, where it is reliably supported. Where you can't get CSS to do what you need it to on all of your target browsers, don't be afraid to use HTML tables or other tried-and-true tricks in defiance of W3C recommendations. Web markup and formatting technologies is one of the worst areas for trying to match up specifications with real-world implementations support :( -- Still lamenting MSIE's abysmal support for the tag... Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Speeding up FF
On Sun 17 Dec 06, 11:48 AM, Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >http://www.metacafe.com/watch/333720/lightning_fast_browsing_trick_for_internet_explorer_and_firefox/ > > > >I can't watch this video. It simply says I need to upgrade Flash Player. > > > >Can someone please watch this on IE and share the gist of the idea? > > Works fine with linux firefox and flash 9b2. Just upgraded and it works. Didn't know there was a flash for linux update. Pete -- How VBA rounds a number depends on the number's internal representation. You cannot always predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Speeding up FF
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:50:45 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > http://www.metacafe.com/watch/333720/lightning_fast_browsing_trick_f or > _internet_explorer_and_firefox/ > > I can't watch this video. It simply says I need to upgrade Flash > Player. > > Can someone please watch this on IE and share the gist of the idea? It says basically the same thing for FF as here: http://jnork.livejournal.com/172830.html I can summarize the IE section too, if you like. IE requires a registry hack. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma
On Sunday 17 December 2006 11:10, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > Rod Roark wrote: ... > > Sure would be nice to find some good open source tax software. > > Seems like a nice idea, but it has to be updated every single year, in > a timely manner, and it has to be accurate, before people start > using it. I don't object to paying for an online service for this. It's not the cost -- TaxCut is pretty cheap. I'd just rather use my normal OS to run it. An online service is out, as I'm not willing to needlessly hand over my financial details to a third party. Rod ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Speeding up FF
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/333720/lightning_fast_browsing_trick_for_internet_explorer_and_firefox/ I can't watch this video. It simply says I need to upgrade Flash Player. Can someone please watch this on IE and share the gist of the idea? Works fine with linux firefox and flash 9b2. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma
Rod Roark wrote: On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:04, Alex Mandel wrote: ... One alternative is to run win98 in a vmware virtual machine when you need to and you can run the internet connection through your linux side with a nice firewall/filters to keep you safe. And if you do hose it with a virus you can just restore it with a image save. Good suggestion. About the only Windows programs I ever use these days are TaxCut, and IE for testing web apps that I develop. For these the free VMware Player does the job nicely. I can't endorse giving a non-patched version of Windows access to the internet, even for short periods of time. Although a hardware firewall can protect against some of the more egregious weaknesses, there are just too many ways for a browser to suck trojans in, and then your network is effectively exposed. I think that if you need proprietary software... pay the owner on their terms. If you can't accept those terms, you know what to do. Sure would be nice to find some good open source tax software. Seems like a nice idea, but it has to be updated every single year, in a timely manner, and it has to be accurate, before people start using it. I don't object to paying for an online service for this. -- --- Jeff NewmillerThe . . Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/BatteriesO.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --- ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] Speeding up FF
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/333720/lightning_fast_browsing_trick_for_internet_explorer_and_firefox/ I can't watch this video. It simply says I need to upgrade Flash Player. Can someone please watch this on IE and share the gist of the idea? Thx, Peter -- How VBA rounds a number depends on the number's internal representation. You cannot always predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma
On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:04, Alex Mandel wrote: ... > One alternative is to run win98 in a vmware virtual machine when you > need to and you can run the internet connection through your linux side > with a nice firewall/filters to keep you safe. And if you do hose it > with a virus you can just restore it with a image save. Good suggestion. About the only Windows programs I ever use these days are TaxCut, and IE for testing web apps that I develop. For these the free VMware Player does the job nicely. Sure would be nice to find some good open source tax software. Rod ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma
Bob Scofield wrote: > On Saturday 16 December 2006 19:28, Rod Roark wrote: >> On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:27, Bob Scofield wrote: >>> While I use Linux for all personal computing, I'm still using Windows 98 >>> for my business computing. >> Which applications? > > Word Perfect > > A free form data base called "Ask Sam" > > And I use Internet Explorer for an online legal research service that I > subscribe to because IE is the only browser that allows me all of the > features the service offers (though I could fudge and use Firefox). > > Bob Well there are lots of good alternatives to word perfect - abiword is nice and light or Openoffice. IE could be run through wine. I'm not familiar with Ask Sam so I don't have any suggestions for that. One alternative is to run win98 in a vmware virtual machine when you need to and you can run the internet connection through your linux side with a nice firewall/filters to keep you safe. And if you do hose it with a virus you can just restore it with a image save. Just an idea, Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
