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Funny how this site looks bad

January 19th, 2004

Take a look at Graphic Designers for Dean. Then read their tagline/motto/whatever:

Beautifying the Dean Campaign One Pixel at a Time!

Right. One pixel at a time it is.

Source: Swagu

Posted by Chu Yeow at January 19, 2004 SGT |

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Get rid of low disk space popups in Windows

January 13th, 2004

Being mired in hard disk space poverty sucks. Having your operating system keep reminding you of that every minute or so sucks even more. And to add to your woes, it’s promise of helping you cleanup your hard disk to make more space falls apart when there really isn’t anything it can suggest you remove.

So that’s how it is recently. Look at what’s in my “anime” partition: episodes of Naruto, Chrno Crusade, Full Metal Alchemist, PLANETES, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, Gunslinger Girl and newly-found Mezzo TV. And 3.33 GB invested in Neverwinter Nights together with the Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark expansion packs. Those and more on a 20 GB hard disk in my laptop. I live day by day, deleting anime as they are downloaded and watched, or transferred over to my desktop (which, thank heavens, has 80 GB).

Anyway, all 3 of my partitions are often nearly full, and Windows XP keeps trying to be helpful. I don’t like being “helped”. So this is what I did:

Opened my registry with regedit
Found the HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> Explorer key.
Created a new DWORD value named “NoLowDiskSpaceChecks”
Set the value to “1″ to disable the low disk space notifications

Meh!

Source: MyDesktopHelp.Com

Posted by Chu Yeow at January 13, 2004 SGT |

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HTTP error pages for weblogs!

January 13th, 2004

Check out the custom error pages over at Dunstan Orchard’s blog as linked in his weblog entry entitled Friendly error handling. Now that is cool. One other thing is certain - Dunstan really has too much time on his hands. Heh. I think I’m just jealous.

Posted by Chu Yeow at January 13, 2004 SGT |

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The PHP Anthology just arrived

January 12th, 2004

The PHP Anthology arrived in the mail today. Shipped by USPS, I wasn’t too impressed with their delivery when it came in a flimsy paper package and was subsequently stuffed into my tiny mailbox. The result - two noticeably squashed up books with dented splines and dog-eared corners.

Anyway, acrimony aside, the PHP Anthology is a set of 2 books written by Harry Fuecks of phpPatterns fame. Harry is rather reputable around the PHP circles, and also in the XUL community. He also was a co-author of one of those big red Wrox Press books dealing with XML. So I’m looking forward this latest publication of his - it should be good.

Well, I do have SitePoint to thank for sending me a complimentary copy as part of the benefits program at SitePoint Forums - being an Advisor (otherwise known as a moderator in discussion forum parlance) has it’s perks. Now if I just have the time to read the books to return SitePoint the favor with a testimonial or a review…

Posted by Chu Yeow at January 12, 2004 SGT |

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Blacklist weblog.cemper.com if you don’t want vaguely related TrackBacks

January 7th, 2004

I’m deliberately making a point to let everyone know of my recommendation that they should blacklist weblog.cemper.com if they do not wish to receive TrackBacks that are only marginally related from the aforementioned weblog. I wrote about this before and I haven’t forgotten that I said Christoph Cemper “isn’t a TrackBack spammer”. That opinion still hasn’t changed because he isn’t a spammer in the conventional sense, as Jay Allen has mentioned. I also don’t want to begin a debate on what qualifies as TrackBack spam and what doesn’t.

I do, however, want to point out to anyone who chances upon this entry that Christoph has had a series of complaints made against him for his TrackBack pings. All are dismayed to find his entries from which the TrackBack pings were sent are minimally related to their own entries. Therefore, I recommend those of you with blacklist software of some sort like MT-Blacklist to put “weblog.cemper.com” into your blacklist to save yourselves future work in removing TrackBacks you most likely would rather not have.

At this point though, I’d like to make a disclaimer that this is solely my opinion and my own recommendation that you do so. You also shouldn’t just do what I say - if this issue concerns you at all, take it upon yourself to investigate the grounds for my recommendation. To that end, I have compiled a list of related weblog entries and links to start you off with at the bottom of this entry.

Christoph Cemper also addresses the complaints made in his entry addressing TrackBack Spam complaints. Another blogger, Camilo, wrote a nicely composed argument on Spam and censorship. In his entry, he questions the use of a clearinghouse as a form of censorship. I agree with him and have made it clear that it wasn’t my intention to censor Cemper.

To Mr. Christoph Cemper: Don’t take this as a personal attack. I just don’t see your side of the argument and as far as I can tell you are still doing it and annoying other bloggers.

This is the list (so far) of bloggers I know who complained (and links to their corresponding entry, if any):