This CSS code can crash Internet Explorer 6 if embedded in a page:
*{position:relative}style>table>
IE7 appears to load the page, but if you open a new tab, it crashes on navigation.

Try it here. You've been warned. Firefox, Opera, Safari and text-mode users aren't affected.

I can't take credit for this, unfortunately. Hamachiya discovered this a few days ago, and it's repeated here. Apparently, mshtml.dll looks at it as a rogue request and closes down.

This is another unfortunate example of Explorer's continuing inability to handle the most basic …

New site theme up, and a few fixes to the CSS so that IE6/7 wouldn't render fonts so small.

It's a bit easier now that I can run Explorer without having to reboot. Turns out it doesn't do so well at rendering em units for text. I also added a smarmy link to prove that the CSS on this site validates, and that the fault lies squarely with Explorer.

Now, if anyone can explain how to remove the extra scrollbar that IE adds on the right, let me know.

The site's been taken down at this point, but for the last few days, Microsoft was distributing Ubuntu Linux.  The page on Microsoft's Marketplace site was removed this morning, but there's a Google cache of it here.

I understand Lindsey Lohan's a big deal these days. She got arrested for getting blotto in public again.

Of course, I really don't know exactly who that is, so let's skip to something more substantial, eh?

Like Estonia. For the geographically-challenged, it's a small country south of Finland that was forcibly integrated into the Soviet Union, then liberated in 1991. They're generally unassuming on the world scene, though the Estonians I've met are a nice bunch. Over the last month, their government computer networks have been subjected to a targeted DDoS attack.

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It's been said that there are six kinds of people in this world: those who can read binary, and those who can't.

Stuff like this is why I love Linux. Here's Beryl running on Ubuntu Feisty:

If you're into this sort of thing, a guy named Sérgio Lopes has come up with a way to run Internet Explorer in Linux. I tried it, and it works:

…which is to say, it works as best as IE can be expected to. It's slow, buggy, and of course, it can't render CSS on a 4th-grade level. Still, if you need it, here it is.

I've had my eye on the Beryl project for some time now. Problem is, I'm a loyal Slackware user, and it's a royal pain in the rear getting it to work on the platform. Beryl isn't the only problem child, either. I've never been able to get Gcdmaster working, and the less said about DVD authoring, the better.

Not that I have any illusions; Slackware isn't designed to be easy, per se. Rather, it's meant to be robust, stable and above all, fast. In those respects, it soars. It's about the only distro I'd use to run a server, and if I need to run something that eats serious CPU cycles, it's the way to go. It's the closest distribution to actual Unix, and for an old-school geek like me, it fits like a glove.

The downside is that it takes alot of hacking and hand-editing to get certain things to work. For the most part, I'm fine with that. I like compiling programs from scratch, since it gives me a finely-grained element of control of the process, and that's what Slackware is all about.

gud god, ppl. Isnt it jst EZer & faster 2 pik ^ d fone & caL ME, rather thN typing aL DIS n, & getin it wrng? It's certanlE EZer 4 d prsn on d rec'vN nd. DIS iz harder thN deciphering Morse code n Yiddish, & 2ice az anoyN.

DIS iz jst mo proof dat d avg prsn shud not b allowD 2 hav contak w modern teknoloG.

From now on, I'm telling people my phone can't get text messages.

Here's a translation tool for the gibberish above, if you need it (and I do).

This is the …

Several years ago, I corresponded with Marek Fetlinski, who ported a few of my WindowMaker themes to Blackbox.

I recently received word from John at Damn Small Linux that he'd like to use one in his distribution, but I've been unable to reach Marek for approval. His site also appears to have atrophied.

Since no license was specified or implied, I've gone ahead and given the greenlight. DSL will be using the Envane theme. I doubt Marek will mind, since he made the themes for recreation, but I'd like him to …

I've got a WinXP partition on my laptop that I have to keep to use SonicStage. Oh, how I hate SonicStage, and Sony for forcing me to use it…but that's a different topic.

Anyhow, I've hued and cried about Internet Explorer's shoddy rendering of CSS before. Now that version 7 is out, I figured I'd give it a run and see if the codemonkeys at Microsoft had gotten things right. I mean, it's only been ten years since the CSS standards have been introduced, right? You'd think they could have gotten it fixed by now.

Guess again.

Are we clear on this yet? Typing in all-caps makes you look like an idiot. Please stop doing it. Think of the children.