18 January 2010
Do most people even know what ‘www’ means in a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)? Is the www prefix really needed on today’s Internet? Read the rest of this entry »
15 January 2010
Headings (h1-h6) should be used to begin sections; they should NOT be used for font effects (that is what CSS is for). Using one h1 tag, and progressive h2-h6 tags not only creates a page structure which is easy to scan and find relevant content for sighted users, but it enhances accessibility for users of screen reader software. Read the rest of this entry »
8 January 2010
Many people over the years have asked:
Why can’t I open more than (number usually varies from 3970 to 3974) sockets on Windows?
My response: Read the rest of this entry »
2 January 2010
The holidays got me side-tracked for weeks, but I am going to continue my saga now.
The next step is system preparation. The very first thing I do when I purchase or build a new system is to run Memtest86 on it to insure I will not have any memory problems. This has saved me several times when I either purchased bad memory, or the motherboard used too aggressive timing settings on a module. It is also a tool I use on existing systems when they show any sort of flakiness, since memory errors can manifest themselves in all sorts of strange ways. Read the rest of this entry »
17 December 2009
Or: How NOT to get your comment approved on my blog
As planned to begin blogging, I allocated a number of hours per week to compose blog entries. I was not naive; I knew there would be spam comments which would need to be weeded out. But I thought that I could lift the manual approval after determining how much of an issue it really was, and simply delete spam and improper entries periodically, perhaps once per week. Well, that is NOT going to happen anytime soon. Read the rest of this entry »