Monthly Archives: April 2005

Some thoughts on Longhorn

After reading this slashdot article I decided to view a little of Gates’s presentation on Longhorn, and I must say that Microsoft never ceases to amaze me. They seem to have the most backwards thinking with so many things they do, and this new Metro file format is no exception. The slashdot comments contain most […]

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Open links in a new window

In the transistion to XHTML, many webmasters are shocked to discover that links with target=”_blank” (which would typically cause the link to open in a new window) prevent their page from validating. This is actually part of the behavior of the link, and (to use proper MVC seperation) therefore should be handled by a scripting […]

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Temporary Password Change

I was thinking about something this morning and wanted to write it down before I forget… here at Visible School we often need to login to a user’s machine as that user while we’re working on it to ensure proper file permissions, set preferences, etc. Typically, the easiest thing to do is to change the […]

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Exit ramp maps

I’m leaving later this afternoon to drive to Nashville and so I went to google maps this morning to double check my directions. I found a good map of where I was going and was pretty sure I determined which exit I wanted, but couldn’t quite tell if the exit ramp went the direction I […]

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Address Book features in Tiger

After reading back through this, I realize this has less to do with the new Address Book features and more to do with structuring your enterprise correctly… the new features just really got me thinking about it I guess. So Apple just announced today that Tiger would ship on April 29, and I’m just giddy […]

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