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Frustratingly, there doesn't seem to be an option anywhere to prevent the mouse from bringing the machine out of standby. For example, under keyboard in control panel I can find a power management tab with the option, but not for the mouse. I'm tired of having to tiptoe by the machine to keep it...

I'm implementing an XML feed in Perl/Apache. If I send a "304 Not Modified" header to the client, CGI.pm's header() function wants to put a Content-Type header in there. If I don't specify one, it sends text/html. If I specify an empty one, it inserts text/plain. I want to leave it out...

Is it possible to find out whether a given domain is commonly blacklisted by corporate web proxies?

PHP serializes $_SESSION data between requests. What I want to know is whether this data can be acted on in any other way than through a page request. The example scenario I have in mind is when a user lets his session time out, is there a way to auto-generate an email to him containing the...

Running Saxon to do a transform fails when an input document contains a DOCTYPE whose system ID references a DTD on the www.w3.org site. Deleting the DOCTYPES from all the documents isn't an option. I'm on the network, but behind a proxy. Any suggestions? Error java.net.UnknownHostException...

In DOS, if you have a deeply nested <pathname> such as: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\websites\htdocs\mysubdirectory\galleries\imgs\thumbsized How do you get to that folder? cd <pathname> fails, as well as cd "<pathname>". Manually cding to everything using the cd foobar~1...

I've run into a programming challenge that involves number crunching and I'm stumped on an equation. Here's what I have that works so far: double y = (Math.sqrt(x) - 1/x) / 2; It basically takes x as a given and computes y resulting in a particuar 2D curve. Where I'm stumped is I want to take...

The truth is, I could care less about this forum's topic. Anyway, double meanings aside, the phrase "I could care less" usually means the opposite of what is intended. Most people actually mean to say "couldn't", but the mistake is so common that I wonder if it is even considered a mistake...

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find anything in the search or FAQs. Relevant threads or links are welcome. Rtvscan.exe (Norton Antivirus) tries to dial home sometimes. My sw firewall traps the connection. Does anybody know what kind of information it attempts to transmit, or...

When I try to design sites with valid XHTML/CSS I often mull over this as I'm trying to find the best way to arrange my HTML tags. For lack of a better term I call it HTML structure patterns, borrowing a concept from the software world's idea of design patterns, where successful ways of doing...

This question has a lot of implications for the viability of outsourcing/offshoring. In software development, can code writing be separated from software design? Outsourcing is a good example because it basically lops the process in two: design by business teams on-shore, code-writing by...

In today's job economy, I am bracing for potential layoffs or outsourcing at my company. What are the ethics or legal implications of documenting your work at your current job so that you can have samples of your work to provide in a resume or portfolio format? Of course I won't be providing...

Apologies if this has been posted already. This site contains the most comprehensive listing of CSS hacks and filters I've ever seen, including detailed browser support charts. By &quot;hacks and filters&quot; I mean things that hide CSS from all but certain browsers, which is useful in a world...

Hello good and admirable Tek-Tips folks, For various reasons I have to rename certain files and folders a lot. After renaming, Windows displays the old filename rather than the new name. I have to refresh the folder window to get the new name to appear. Also, sometimes it &quot;forgets&quot...

Hi folks, We're converting database info to HTML. It's mainly tabular data, but also has some aspects of nested, unordered lists. Our table thus looks like this: +------+-------------------+ | text | parent | +------+-------------------+ | text | * child 1 |...

Recently learned a good tip, not sure if this is generally known, but I don't see it mentioned often, so I'm posting it here for the benefit of all. To give an element multiple classes, separate the classes with spaces: <div class=&quot;important news&quot;>...</div> <div class=&quot;important...

Hi all. I've made a t-shirt design to celebrate a product launch at work. The t-shirt maker says he needs to run the file through a color separator so he needs a 'vector image' type file. Specifically he says he needs an AI (Adobe Illustrator) or EPS (Encapsulated Post Script) file to do this...

BuyMusic.com (BM) is a new online service similar to Apple's iTunes, but targeted to Windows users. On BM's website, users of Mozilla, Opera, or any non IE browser are sent to an error page informing they must use IE on a Windows machine. I submitted feedback asking why they did this when...

I downloaded a font definition file (*.ttf) from some free font website. If I were to use this font, is there any possibility of becoming infected? Font definition files presumably don't contain executable code, plus virus scans aren't showing anything, but I'm paranoid. Google has revealed...

I'm only asking this because some of my customers insist on using Netscape 4. These people are also running Solaris, not Windows, so this question might be a long shot in this forum. Does anybody know how to force Netscape 4 to not make the font annoyingly large when the web page is tagged as...