§ Actiontec M1000 DSL modem security
I used to use an Actiontec GT701 DSL modem. Since my entire livelihood depends on my internet access, I got a little nervous when some odd things started happening. As it happened, a friend was having trials with the phone company getting her DSL to work, and was advised to try the Actiontec M1000. Still no go, so I tested her modem here and it worked nicely. (That was all the phone company's fault, and after getting escalated a few times, I believe they were a bit embarrassed.) So I looked around and found a slightly used M1000 (with wireless) for about $30! (I don't want the wireless - I use Airport. Being an Apple product, it's actually comprehensible to mere mortals like myself.) But after a few days, weird things started happening with the M1000...
§ Don't AJAX an image!
Using AJAX is fine when you need it, but I've used AJAX to simply reload CAPTCHA images. Boy, some people are dumb! Me, in particular.
UPDATE: I'm dumber than I thought...
§ Adventures with Ubuntu 9.10 on G4 Yikes!
I have an Apple G4 Yikes! (or PCI Graphics) that I've loved for years. I ran Jaguar, then Panther, and it currently runs Tiger well enough to suit me. I got a G5 a while back, so this box got sort of retired, until I picked up some contract work doing websites. Since I had a whole new set of emails, chat sessions, VOIP, invoices, etc., etc., I turned on my trusty Yikes! and devoted it to all of that stuff for that job.
When I stopped working that contract, my poor old G4 started getting lonely again. So, the other day I thought maybe I should use it to try Linux again. I've looked at Linux a number of times through the years, for various reasons, including on old Macs, but never quite got sucked in to being a convert.
"I keep hearing good things about Ubuntu," I thought, "so I think I'll try it; this'll be fun!"
That depends on your definition of fun...
§ Software that leaves a mess
The other day, my WinXP machine kept bringing up the "let's clean up your hard drive" wizard, which I kept closing. I finally realized that Explorer claimed that I had 0 bytes available on my system drive! "Impossible," I thought, "what's wrong now?! A virus?" Not quite...
- Walid on "Adventures with Ubuntu 9.10 on G4 Yikes!" - I am in the same process as you. Although I still dual-boot to Windows for my ganimg leisure. My first contact with Ubuntu was way…
- Slashback on "Simpler adding & removing element classnames" - Actually, the addClassName function does what you want, pretty much the same way you suggest.
- angie on "Simpler adding & removing element classnames" - And what if I want to add a class, but keeping the csseals the element already has?I mean, I have an element with a class, let's name…
- backlinks on "Adjust iframe height to contents" - Definitely helped me.
- Slashback on "Simpler validate form fields are filled in (no additional class names)" - You are welcome!
