old stuff from August, 2006

new face

Wednesday, 30 August 2006 9:23 am by noel
posted in eclipse, software, web development

i’ve decided to change the home page of the domain. nothing fancy. just a static page with links to the major subdirectories, blogs, etc.
and i’m going to create it using eclipse. the 3.2 final came out july 2006 and the platform should be stable. this’ll definitely (hopefully) force me to learn how to use the [...]

ie7 rc1

Tuesday, 29 August 2006 8:31 pm by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

it is good to hear that internet explorer 7 release candidate 1 (rc1) has better support for css (and rss) than the last beta. its good to know its faster too.
i wanted to install rc1 but it would replace version 6.x that’s currently installed in my computer and i would need that for current web [...]

netless

Sunday, 20 August 2006 6:29 pm by noel
posted in internet, stuff

i went to the province to hang with my folks for a bit. i didn’t have ready access to a computer hence no internet either. it was just my folks, my son and me. of course, there was the teevee but i surrendered the remote, as well as my viewing privileges to robin.
all i had [...]

new memory module, sort of

Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:45 pm by noel
posted in hardware, stuff

i got a second hand memory module the other day. cheap. its a 512 meg ddr266 (that tells you how old my rig is) which will replace one of two 256 meg modules that i have.
the “new” dimm works fine but now i have an extra 256 meg ram. so i decide to sell it [...]

3. internet explorer

Tuesday, 8 August 2006 8:11 am by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

i’ve read in the ieblog that internet explorer 7 beta1 does not improve its support for web standards. to be honest, that bit of news doesn’t really surprise me. ie6 also lacks support for web standards. microsoft likes to make life a little more interesting for web developers. in fairness, the post in ieblog also [...]