February 2004 - Posts

• Going into Rory and Stickfigure Withdrawl...

  Hmmm, Rory and his ghetto hosting provider seem to have gotten all choked up.  Why Rory didn't think to check for the “minimum query memory is not available“ exception is beyond me (I mean, come on).  I'm actually hosted by the same people as Rory at my site, and I'm not having any problems at all.  Interesting. Anyways, if this is a long term outage, I've been practicing drawing stick figures and pasting pictures of Steve Wozniak's head on them in Paint.  I also have a whole bunch of cough syrup, Jäger and Red Bull so I can also go Rory-style insane.  But I'd really hate to have to break into the cough syrup, Jäger and Red Bull because those are only to be used in very serious emergencies. Edit:  Hey, by the time I typed all this crap in, the thing started working.  Opps. Posted Feb 23 2004, 10:36 AM by Phil Scott with 1 comment(s)

• A Humble Request for the MSDN Homepage

  Can someone @ MSDN throw a padding: 0 into the CSS for the MSDN homepage for ordered and unordered list? I don't know why, but this drives me insane. I of course can live with it if the CSS head haunchos don't want CSS to that takes into account browsers besides IE, but it seems like a doable request. Here's an article detailing the problem and how to solve it: http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/list-indent/ Posted Feb 18 2004, 09:15 AM by Phil Scott with 1 comment(s)

• Dropping F-Bombs in the Windows Source

  The BBC is running an article about why the release of the Windows source code is bad for Microsoft.  One of the problems is that it is “littered with profanity.”  Judging by some of Raymond's posts, I'm not surprised. Edit: Here's a link to slashdot where someone did a grep on the code.  I'll sit patiently by and wait for black helicopters to pick me up for posting it.  And the best comment? “lets do some majic shit so the compiler generates 'good' code” from rhe.c.  It also appears someone is not fond of the LPITEMIDLIST playing with some alpha compiler. Posted Feb 13 2004, 09:58 AM by Phil Scott with 3 comment(s)