Author Archives: D. Servranckx
Upgrading HP G6 Laptop to Ubuntu 11.10… More Tales!
This morning, I upgraded the HP G6 Laptop to Ubuntu 11.10, and as I feared, things did not go as smoothly with the HP and the RALINK 5390 as advertised.
Ubuntu on HP G6 Laptop: tales from the grave!
As a professional Web Developer, I just love Ubuntu/ Linux. But the reality of the work environment means that I can not ignore Windows and Internet Explorer. So I installed Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwal) in parallel with Windows 7 Home … More…
Tooltip those Hotspots on Map Areas
JQuery tooltips are wonderful, but, surprise, surprise, do not work on Map hotspots with all versions of Internet Exploder.
From MS Access to MySQL – in 100 easy steps
I maintain a searcheable MySQL database of member’s coordinates on the Nepean Sailing Club web site that is sent to me by email as a Microsoft Excel export from an Access database. Here is how I go about it…
Teach you computer to think Ubuntu!
Booting XP Home Edition on my 2006, 512KB Ram Fujitsu laptop used to take 15 minutes on a good day, and 25 minutes on a not-so-good one, that is, most of the time!
Time to set the table
The most popular way to add borders to tables is with the primitive border=”n” tag where “n” is a number expressing the thickness in pixels
Can’t shoot a _blank at a target?
Having an XHTML Strict DOCTYPE (as in many WordPress themes) invalidates the use of the very useful target=”_blank” tag inside an anchor reference to open the page in a new window or tab… but there is a simple work around: … More…