Published on June 29th, 2006 in Fun
Right, you’re thinkin’ wtf?!?!?! That was my first thought, too. But there are a few guys, who decided to encode all of the matches into an ASCII stream. You can access it easily via telnet. Just type this into your command line (should work with Win, Linux & MacOS X): “telnet ascii-wm.net 2006″
Try it out [...]
Published on June 29th, 2006 in Best of, CSS, FunI found this on the net, hilarious, but oh so true. Don’t you think IE users should switch just to make the lives of many web designers (including me) a lot easier? We’ll see how IE7 handles CSS.
Published on June 17th, 2006 in Best of, Java, OtherYou gotta be kidding right? Well, I’m not. And this could become something big and meaningful. It could win over a few million people over to the Java platform. But first things first:
As Visual Basic 6 gets older and older, more and more problems start to appear. Microsoft stopped supporting it, hoping most developers would [...]
Published on June 15th, 2006 in General, OtherApproximately 6 years after the dot com bubble burst, the web is finally getting some heat again, no doubt. Web 2.0 companies, also known as Business 2.0 companies, are opening up almost every day. It seems to be the right time to monetize that great idea you’ve been carrying around with you for the last [...]
Published on June 14th, 2006 in JavaEvery client-side Java programmer knows this problem: How do I most effectively create a GUI for my application? Most IDEs do provide some kind of support for this task, either built-in or through plug-ins, but most of the time the support is at best awful (either lacking important features or just being way too slow). [...]
Published on June 10th, 2006 in GeneralHave you noticed? If you click on Google’s header image, you’ll automatically start a search for the FIFA 2006 world cup. And what’s the first search result that comes up? If a game’s currently on, it’ll display the current results, or it’ll display the end results if the game is finished. Pretty nifty, huh? So, [...]
Published on June 8th, 2006 in GentooAfter doing an “emerge –sync && emerge -up world” on my Gentoo box, the following error appeared and wouldn’t let me update my system: “sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2)”
So I searched the internet and tried a few things and found this solution, that seemed to help a lot of people: “emerge –buildpkgonly –nodeps shadow && emerge [...]
Published on June 8th, 2006 in GeneralIf you have a GMail account, you should by now have a total storage space of up to 2.7 GB. That’s a lot just for e-Mails, most people will never be able to fill that up, so there’s a lot of space left for other usages. Wouldn’t it be great, if it was possible to [...]
Published on June 4th, 2006 in SEOMeta Tags
First of all, use the old, well-known Meta Tags like Keywords and Description. This certainly isn’t as important as it used to be, because most big Search Engines started to ignore them since a growing number of sites started to take advantage of this system and used every possible keyword there was just to [...]
Published on June 3rd, 2006 in Windows AdministrationEvery Windows Administrator knows what Visual Basic Scripts or also called Windows Scripting Host Scripts can do to ease the burden of Windows System Administration. I’ve come across a script that consolidates most of the features you would ever want or need, like doing a hardware and software inventory of your networked computers.
The newest version [...]
