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I'm the author of a Free Software web application, eLAS (http://elas.vsbnet.be).
Though the application is written and supported purely on a LAMP stack, many of it's end-users are using MS-Windows and unfortunately Internet Explorer.
Starting with eLAS 2.0, I already dropped any form of support for IE 6, but I do provide bugfixes for IE 7 and 8. For that sole purpose, I need to run two instances of Windows XP in Virtualbox (one for each version).
A little over a month ago, I decided it was time to update the dated site layout to a CSS and Division based layout. The whole process took me less than one hour and the result looked identical on FireFox, Chomium, Opera, BrowserNG (Symbian) and Safari. Imagine my surprise when I finally booted up the virtual Windows installs to find major problems on both versions of IE.
I already spent hours fixing the layout on this monsterous rendering engine, but the funniest error was in the site's footer. On IE it was hovering all over the place, while ever other browser rendered it correctly. As it turns out, this is again a known rendering bug and the only thing needed to fix it was to add "height: 15px;" to the CSS file. Instead of just controlling the height of the division, it correctly anchors it to the bottom of the containing division and it keeps FireFox and Chromium happy.
Now I need to figure out why IE oversizes a table that has a width as a percentage inside a dynamically sized division...
I took some interesting pictures the last few days. All sorts of exciting evidence and the base for a post on coffee 
When earlier today I needed to produce some of that evidence; I discovered that my SD card or whatever was having a hickup. The files (admittedly, nearly 300 pictures) weren’t in the directory and needless to say that didnt make me happy :/
I got the card out of the phone (gotta love the fact that android doesn’t mind the hot swapping) and connected it to a reader and the laptop!
My hope that the files were there but just not being shown when using the phone was quickly squashed; the directory only contained the small amount of files I was able to see when connected to the phone
LOST.DIR
Android apparently has a LOST.DIR construct (reminiscent of EXT3s lost+found) where they attach files that are on the disk but not attached to some valid directory.
Which is where all my lost pictures were (needless to say I cried hot tears of joy – LOL)
This does of course screw up your filenames, timestamps, file extensions, whatnot.. luckily the picture meta data has all the date and in most cases even gps data you might need
Gotta love android & teh linuxiez
I was reading on slashdot about dumping XP
Maybe it is time! and not to w7 but to a real operating system
Ubuntu is ready for the desktop, I now there are comments like "missing apps", "no games" ...
Most daily work can be done out of the box on Linux
"office", "mail", "surfing" can be done without a problem
Migrating from XP to Linux is for most users not a big problem,
Even my mother is using Ubuntu for 3 years now
She migrated from XP to Ubuntu gutsy and I just needed to give some small explanations about evolution mail and firefox
currently she works with Lucid and firefox, amsn, evolution, picasa, gimp and ooffice
so idd its time to drop XP :)
Someone (of my family) has noticed that he could login to the Zarafa webaccess without a passwd
I was very surprised coz I had never tried to login with a wrong passwd
It seems that if your php is running with the same account as your Zarafa server the socket grants everything
What was I thinking when I changed this server to apache2-mpm-worker and fastcgi (exept the fact for tuning my apache)
taking a simple username for zarafa ...
Forgotten that Zarafa was running with the user zarafa!
And even worse I did not check for wrong passwords after migrating
So if you want to SuexecUserGroup create a uniq uid
Also playing save is switching the socket to a tcp socket
The http socket will alway's ask for credentials
(vi /usr/share/zarafa-webaccess/config.php)
- define("DEFAULT_SERVER","file:///var/run/zarafa");
+ define("DEFAULT_SERVER","http://localhost:236/zarafa");
(don't forget z-push and webaccess-mobile they have there own config file)
#puppetcamp was awesome, @patrickdebois did a great job in organizing this event
There was the opportunity to meet the experts behind puppetlabs and follow great talks
The interactive open-space sessions where great to share knowledge between administrators
It is clear that the world needs puppet.
I look forward to a continuation of this event ...
