Archive for January, 2008

January 29th, 2008

The most useless thing I’ve read a thousand times.

It's this: uselesserror.png OK, first complaint. My script does not have a Line 368. It only goes up to 211. I know what you're trying to say, it's that after parsing the DOM and code, something went wrong on my own internal imaginary Line 368 which you can't ...
January 22nd, 2008

Javascript: show and hide a table cell

Challenge: You want to show/hide some table cells. Problem: To hide a table cell, you set its style display property to "display:none". Easily accomplished. To show it, you set the style display property to either "block" in IE, or "table-cell" in Firefox. There’s the challenge - if you set the cell style to "display:block", ...
January 20th, 2008

Vista: goes to sleep and doesn’t wake up

Symptom: Vista goes to sleep, and won't wake up. The mouse or keyboard are unresponsive, the screen is black. The only way to get your computer to wake up is to "hard shut down" - hold the power button for 10 seconds until it turns off. Then restart the machine. Because ...