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  • 2009
    • September
      • How to break Safari4 with CSS
        09/27/09
        Today I found a nasty Safari 4.0 bug. By accident, I ended up with a css line as follows:

        .orange {color: !important;}

        The result is... Safari skips the complete rest of the css file after this statement. Took me ages to figure this out. But if this is persistant in some Safa

    • January
  • 2008
    • June
      • Long Time Google Docs Bugs Which Are So Far Never Fixed By Google
        06/18/08
        The number of bugs in google docs seem to be so long that they have problems fixing them. At least the following issues are not resolved for months now. Unfortunately they are adding features more quickly than that they are fixing bugs, which was microsofts favorite thing to do and made me switch to

      • what's the best pictureviewer for xp/vista?
        06/18/08
        First, a bit of history:

        before XP, I used acdsee on win98/win2000/nt but the person who developed this thought it was a good idea to put tons of useless features into it without thinking about the fact that an application needs a intuative userinterface, and then decided that it also nee

      • Generating microsoft office documents (word, excel) on your webserver using php
        06/13/08
        Actually, this is much easier than you might think. The trick is to use the capability of excel and word to read html files. So just generate normal html, but use a content-type header line to force the browser to see this as a word or excel file: (using php)

        header ("Content-type: a

    • April
      • Een office in china?
        04/21/08
        Dit lijkt moeilijker dan dat het is. Als eerste natuurlijk de keuze van de plaats. Na ons bezoek aan Shanghai werd wel duidelijk dat het daar lastiger gaat worden: de stad is overvol, de lonen stijgen en de chinezen zijn nu vooral zelf heel ondernemend en hebben in steeds mindere mate de buitenlande

      • Flash memory reliability
        04/17/08
        During my trip to China a few weeks ago I met Ernst Fuld again. Ernst is CEO of the NGN, the dutch IT-professional platform. He told me that he has tried to test some usb-sticks and see if they could be written and erased so many times that they break. As you probably know, flash memory can only be

  • 2007
    • March
      • IE7 upgrade experience - IE7 exits immediately after starting.
        03/12/07
        I'm using firefox as my default browser, but for testing and development i need explorer every once in a while. A couple of weeks ago, my microsoft update asked my to upgrate to IE7. So why not? well, always reluctant to install microsoft stuff, but if everybody uses IE7, i should at least test

  • 2006
    • August
      • find your dhcp servers
        08/24/06
        How often does this go wrong: multiple dhcp servers on your subnet? Because routers, accesspoints, modems boxes ALL have dhcp servers nowadays, a double or triple dhcp server in your network is not uncommon. But tools to identify which dhcp servers are available are not easy to find.

        To

    • April
      • Mserv4win - Mserv Client for Windows
        04/09/06
        Already for a few years, i'm running MSERV, a great opensource mp3 jukebox which is completely client-server and has a good rating- and genre system which allows it to play random music that corresponds to the current mood, current lister etc.

        You can rate numbers as superb, good, n

    • March
      • Acceptgiro printen
        03/24/06
        Even een item in het nederlands. Wat is het toch lastig om informatie te vinden over het printen van acceptgiro's, en dan met name het berekenen van de controle getallen.

        Uiteindelijk bij interpay de goede informatie gevonden:
        http://www.interpay.nl/binaries/IPforms

      • How to add an AUX input to a Mini Cooper or BMW car stereo / radio
        03/13/06
        I recently bought a mini cooper, because it's such a great car. (yes, it's the cooper-S convertible, model 2005, so the only thing it needs is the "cooper works" upgrade)


        But even nowadays, a simple aux-input on the radio is not a standard option. And who listens

  • 2005
    • September
      • Installers - what's hot and what not
        09/05/05
        The normal case: been busy for my latest project, and after a few days of sweat to produce the finest .exe, I dont care about installation and give the exe to everybody "to try it out". But nowadays, that's hardly acceptable: nobody expect an application to be "just an exe"

    • June
      • Simple Tabs for your webpage with php
        06/23/05
        I've just finished a new version of the icelandic-horses website. Because it's a fairly large site, I decided to use tabs on top of the page, to make navigation simple and intuitive.

        Just looking for what is available on the net, i found lots an lots of nice implementations, ho

    • January
      • The search for the new text editor
        01/27/05
        Changing from one editor to another... wow! An editor is a tool that i'm using so much, that changing from one to another feels like moving to another appartment.

        On windows, I'm using homesite 3 for quite some years. Homesite 4 and 5 never attracted me: adding feature after f

      • Oracle on Gentoo
        01/21/05
        Oracle installations are always a pain, and on a non-supported distro like gentoo it will probably be much worse. Lets see what we get.

        The oracle CD (9.2) contains a script called runInstaller.

        * Create a user oracle and group oracle to run this script in.
        * run r

      • oracle vs mysql
        01/21/05
        after fiddling with mysql a bit, you normally want to use a real database. The limitations of mysql are numerous: no views, no triggers, no stored procedures and so on. For very simple applications its ok, but sql is more than just a select statement. Therefore someday you move over to oracle. Oracl

      • mysql from a remote machine.
        01/21/05
        Assuming you can connect locally to mysql, you'd expect to be able to connect remote...not! This is not as easy as it seems.

        First make sure you CAN access the mysql server from a remote machine. By default, the my.cnf file contains a statement:
        bind-address=127.0.0.1
        that

      • Gentoo and the pvr350 with ivtv support
        01/21/05
        Getting mythtv to work is the final step in a long range of sub-applications that need to work first. Amongst these are:

        Mysql
        One is mysql. Emerge mysql does the trick, but then
        /etc/init.d/mysql start
        told me that I still needed to run a script. The ebuild doesn't do

      • The Via Epia M10000 with Nehemiah cpu
        01/21/05
        Great stuff coming from via nowadays. I am experimenting with those via boards for a while now, and they are fun! Why buy a noisy, expensive 3Ghz intel or athlon, when all you need is a 600Mhz pc. On top of that, it does not need a fan, so it's completely silent.

        Tutuut
        One of t

      • getting the gentoo live-cd to work
        01/21/05
        The gentoo manuals are great, taking you step-by-step through the whole process. Following this, i first needed their live-cd for booting this old pentium 166mhz. So i burned the live-cd 2004.2 iso (the minimal one).

        Watch out that you burn this one as an 'image', so do not crea

      • Tired of redhad/fedora: The Gentoo case
        01/21/05
        After using redhat for quite some years i decided to give gentoo (www.gentoo.org) a try. The main advantage is their impressive package system called 'portage'.

        The drawback of the redhad distributions is that you always need the correct rpm if you want to install something, and