While logged in as root do the following:

You might be familiar with such services as LESS and Sass. They allow for far more flexibility when creating your stylesheets, including the use of variables, etc all based on the fast JavaScripting.

When you decide to make a photobadge on Facebook it will allow you to automatically share your latest photos with the world from one image generated by Facebook. As you might have noticed it doesn’t take all the photos from all of your albums. The reason for this is probably because you have to enable the album for ‘Everyone’, and so the album cannot be set for ‘Friends only’ or something similiar. You can change your album-settings by clicking on an album and then at the bottom you will find a link ‘Change album settings’.

A nice overview of the different approaches in Google Maps API v2 and v3, for displaying tooltips, popups on markers.

Using WeblocOpener, you can will be able to open .webloc files in windows using your default browser (so no need to install Safari). Just double click your webloc files and they will open. You need to associate the .webloc filetype to the program, but it’s all explained when you just double click WeblocOpener. You can now download WeblocOpener for free.
Update (27/10/2009): Version 1.1 is now fully compatible with Windows 7 too.

Asked question: I have this code. later in javascript I want to add javascript like document.body.onload= “funcSetByJS()” How can use the document.body.onload=” code without killing the code I set in the html? I want the onload to look like this when i am done. onload=”funcSetByHTML(); nFunctionsIDontKnowWhatTheyWillBe(); funcSetByJS()”. I need a way to append to the onload event, rather then rest it? Can this be done?

See the link for the answer.

If this function is not working for your setup, make sure to check the following options:

* (PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5)
* PHP should be compiled with this option
* Check your php.ini file and make sure the line extension=php_sockets.dll exists and is not commented out with the ; in front of it.

Each character of text is specified by a value specified according to some encoding scheme. The particular type of encoding, the number of bits and bytes required for the encoding, transformations between encodings, and other issues thus become important, especially for a language like Java that is aimed towards worldwide use. Encoding becomes particularly relevant to I/O when text gets moved between different systems with perhaps different encoding schemes.

So give a brief overview of character encodings here.

The 7-BIT ASCII code set is the most famous, but there are many extended eight bit sets in which the first 128 codes are ASCII and the extra 128 codes provide symbols and characters needed for other languages besides English.

For example, the ISO-LATIN-1 set (ISO Standard 8859-1) provides characters for most West European languages and for a few other languages such as Indonesian.

Java itself is based on the 2-byte UNICODE representation of characters. The sixteen bits provide for a character set of 65,535 entries and so allows for broad international use.

The first 256 entries in 2-byte UNICODE are identical to the ISO-Latin-1 set. That makes the 2-byte Unicode inefficient for programs in English since the second byte is seldom needed. Therefore, a scheme called UTF-8 is used to encode text characters (e.g. string literals) for the Java class files.

The UTF code varies from 1 byte to 3 bytes. If a byte begins with a 0 bit, then the lower 7 bits represent one of the 128 ASCII characters. If the byte begins with the bits 110, then it is the first of a two byte pair that represent the Unicode values for 128 to 2047. If any byte begins with 1110, then it is the first of a three byte set that can hold any of the other Unicode values.

Thus, UTF trades the ability to only one byte most of the time for occasionally needing to use up to three bytes. For text in English and
many other languages, this is a good tradeoff that can drastically reduce file size over those in strict Unicode.

Java typically runs on platforms that use one byte extended ASCII encoded characters. Therefore, text I/O with the local platform, or with other platforms over the network, must convert between the encodings. As we mentioned in the previous section, the original one byte streams were not convenient for this so the Reader/Writer classes for two byte I/O were introduced.

The default encoding is typically ISO-Latin-1, but your program can find the local encoding with the following static method in the System: String local_encoding = System.getProperty(“file.encoding”);

The encoding can be explicitly specified in some cases via the constructor such as in the following file output: FileOutputStream out_file = new FileOutputStream (“Turkish.txt”);
OutputStreamWriter file_writer = new OutputStreamWriter (out_file, “8859_3”);

A similar overloaded constructor is available for InputStreamReader. See the book by Harold for more information about character encoding in Java.

MORE ABOUT UNICODE

If a character is not available on your keyboard, it can be specified in a Java program by its Unicode value. This value is represented with four hexadecimal numbers preceded by the “u” escape sequence. For example, the “ö” character is given by u00F6 and “è” by u00E8.

The program UnicodesApplet shows examples of characters specified by their Unicode values and drawn on the applet panel.

UnicodesApplet.java

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

/** Unicode demo program. **/
public class UNICODESAPPLET extends JApplet
{

public void init () {
Container content_pane = getContentPane ();

// Create an instance of DrawingPanel
DrawingPanel drawing_panel = new DrawingPanel ();

// Add the DrawingPanel to the content pane.
content_pane.add (drawing_panel);

} // init

} // class UnicodesApplet

/** Display unicode characters. **/
class DrawingPanel extends JPanel
{
public void paintComponent (Graphics g) {
// First paint background unless you will
// paint whole area yourself.
super.paintComponent (g);

g.drawString (“\u00e5 = \u00e5”, 10, 12 );
g.drawString (“\u00c5 = \u00c5”, 10, 24 );
g.drawString (“\u00e4 = \u00e4”, 10, 36 );
g.drawString (“\u00c4 = \u00c4”, 10, 48 );
g.drawString (“\u00d6 = \u00d6”, 10, 60 );
g.drawString (“\u00f6 = \u00f6”, 10, 72 );

} // paintComponent

} // class DrawingPanel

Associate fields to table in MySQL using PHP

On the following site you can download a javascript (and also a little bit of VB) which allows you to detect which plugins are available on the client’s machine. Detects Flash, Director, Quicktime, Windows Media and Real.

Set the Default Sent, Junk, and Trash Folders

How to configure the default sent, junk, and trash folders used by
the WiscMail web client and other common desktop e-mail clients.

CHANGE THE DEFAULT FOLDERS USED BY:

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.x (Windows/Mac)

Outlook Express

Outlook Express does not filter Junk mail, so it is not possible to
specify a default Junk mail folder. For Trash, Outlook 2007 uses the
“Deleted Items” folder. This cannot be modified. To modify the default
Sent folder:

Outlook 2003

In Outlook 2003, it is not possible to customize the default Sent
folder (“Sent Items”), Trash folder (“Deleted Items”), or Junk folder
(“Junk E-Mail”). The junk filter can be disabled through
Tools/Options/Preferences/Junk E-Mail, but the folder name cannot be
customized when junk filtering is enabled.

Outlook 2007

Windows Vista Mail

Mac Mail 2.x (Mail.app)

Entourage (Mac)

Problem: After having installed Leopard, to update Windows drivers, you put the Leopard DVD in while in Boot Camp Windows. The new driver install did not occur. You also could not find Windows drivers on Leopard DVD. And, while in Leopard and starting up Boot Camp Assistant, there was no longer any way to make a Windows driver CD (or folder).

Solution: I had to right-click the DVD drive in Vista, and choose Show Windows Files rather than Show Mac Files. Presto, the setup for Windows drivers appeared.

If you have Mediafour’s MacDrive installed in Windows, Mediafour says that when you right-click the DVD, you should choose “MacDrive -> Show Windows Files.” This is because the Leopard installation DVD is a multisession disc.

Synchronize files in Windows XP. Learn how to keep your laptop or desktop pc in sync. Very good and simple tutorial.

It appears that the video drivers affect the Remote Desktop Server (RDC) and causes this to mall-function. You can find back the discussion thread here on the site of Microsoft. Installing older video drivers again might solve your problem.

Describes how to use Registry Editor to automate the logon process in Windows XP.

Sometimes, you might want to get the current page URL that is shown in the browser URL window. For example if you want to let your visitors submit a blog post to Digg you need to get that same exact URL. There are plenty of other reasons as well. In this tutorial we will show how you can do that.

NosTech File Comparer allows you to find all duplicate or identical files on your computer. Just select the directory or drive you want to scan for duplicate files and hit Start. You will get a list of potential duplicate files found and the interface allows you to view, open the containing folder or delete the file in just one click. This program is very useful to clear some additional diskspace in no time. You can now download FileComparer for free.

Actually the solution is very easy for IE since IE treats height almost as if it were min-height. So the following will do what you want (assuming 200px was the min-height you wanted)
..foo {
  min-height: 200px
} // feed IE the same value for height, but not it IE Mac 5
* html .foo { /*\*/ height: 200px; }

Of course, Safari still doesn’t support min-height either, so you
might be interested in Dave Shea (of Mezzoblue and the CSS Zen
Garden)’s cunning fix