For the benefit of my future self, and anyone trying to Google this crazy issue ( Read more... )

The whiteboard at work which we use for Nerf target practise currently has a nice blue IE6 logo serving as the bullseye. I lost three frustrating hours today to that hell-spawned relic of Web 1.0, just trying to get it to add items to a drop-down select box via JavaScript...
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I installed XAMPP so that I could do my Web Apps coursework. However, Apache wouldn't start - it launched, but then quit immediately. I did a quick Google and someone pointed out that Skype grabs port 80 on startup, preventing Apache from using it. When I quit Skype, Apache started up just fine. A little exploration turned up a Skype setting to ( Read more... )

This meet was somewhat unexpected - I'd known about it beforehand, of course, but with my sieve-like memory it had slipped my mind until I was on the train into Uni, talking to a guy I had known from Scouts years ago and hadn't met for a while, and I mentioned geekSoc and suddenly remembered that I was meant to be helping out that night ( Read more... )

Odd. I bought Metropolis, the black-and-white Fritz Lang movie, a while back because the DVD was on sale. It's ... alright, but the music kinda put me off - frilly orchestral stuff. The film has some very industrial dystopian sequences that really deserved some heavy power orchestral music, and the music on the DVD just didn't do them any justice. ( Read more... )

My boss mentioned to me today that it was a pity that everyone could see the source code of our website, and that I should probably put a right-click trap on there ( Read more... )

I'm a little bit irked by what used to be Fusion Radio at the moment. I've been with the station as a webmaster for about two and a half years now, through three different stationmasters, and the one constant I've observed is a lack of ability to communicate ( Read more... )

So, I ran into Blair a few days ago and asked him whether he'd gotten my emails about the Fusion site being (mostly) operational. Turned out he hadn't got the emails because someone had changed the passwords on the Fusion mailbox at the Union, and hadn't seen fit to tell him. He also mentioned something about Fusion promotions and events being ( Read more... )

Bad news. The 120Gb Seagate drive in Altair (my home server and storage box) is going. We had a powercut a couple of months ago, when something (the kettle, I think) tripped the house breakers. After that, Altair appeared to come back up fine, but a couple of weeks later things started breaking, starting with Samba ( Read more... )

Various stuff has happened since my last entry a week ago ( Read more... )