Eric Covener’s Journal

If a user has told their gecko-based browser to NOT allow pages to choose their own fonts, various ways of making something monospaced don’t work — except enclosing it in <code> tags.

Is there a way to make mozilla think an arbitrary DIV should be monospaced (or whatever-tf style is applied to the CODE tag normally) that works when this gecko setting is in effect? Like:

<div class=foo><code>…

but without the explicit <code>

Report: PSU fails minority access

Penn State received an “F” overall for minority and low-income access, making it a bottom-feeder among Big Ten schools surveyed in a study released last week.

Wouldn’t this make them the opposite of a bottom-feeder?

Can you guess what your system displays for the following?

#!/bin/sh

for LOCALE in $(locale -a) FOO; do
printf “%-40s” “Locale: ${LOCALE}:”
printf “A\na\nb\nC” | env LANG=${LOCALE} LC_ALL=${LOCALE} sort | xargs
done

Using the character class [A-Z] loosely can cause trouble!

Sidebar now has a handy Goodberrys flavor of the day listing, covering the smaller of 7 days or until the end of the month.

Under 40 lines of perl!

edit: No longer displaying invalid dates (the webpage I’m scraping at goodberries always defines 31 days) based on Peczes input, 33 LOC

Check out claim 9 in this patent

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html via the Penguin.swf blog

Most importantly, vanishing sound allegedly fixed (flash-based video players lose sound after a minute or so)

The links on this page are still bogus, Installer == browser plugin w/o any bogus installer.

ionice is like the traditional unix nice utility, except it sets I/O priorities (which nice doesn’t do on Linux) so when you’re doing something with heavy disk I/O you can prevent it from bogging down your entire system.

ionice works only w/ recent kernel levels, and only when the CFQ I/O scheduler is active (grep CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED /boot/config-`uname -r` or cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler).

Christmas Tree Instant w/lights Collapsible Easy Storage

Did you know they crank out LED-driven DLP sets that use tri-colored LEDs to eliminate the color wheel?

And that Sony’s SXRD sets have turned LCoS from flop to sensation over the last 2 years or so?

Seems like DLP will continue to be the go-to technology for the mainstream market, with LCoS on the high-end and LCD/Plasma as a tax on the rich or the vain.