Wednesday April 28, 2004

Fight the Meme! I will not be providing you with "the fifth sentence on page 23" of the book nearest me, nor any other book.
( Apr 28 2004, 10:23:28 AM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

LazyWeb: Prevent IE Usage

I've got my family fairly well-trained to use Mozilla instead of InternetExplorer. But there is the occasional bit of software (such as DVD players) that will launch IE regardless of the fact that Mozilla has been set as the default browser. That and occasionally my mother-in-law will use the computer, and I cannot am not allowed to train her.

So, the question for the LazyWeb: Is there a way to intercept launching of IE and prevent it? Even better, "route" the request to Mozilla?
( Apr 28 2004, 10:18:24 AM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

Monday April 26, 2004

Windows: 0, Lance: 0

I used the laptop-to-IDE converter to hook up the laptop's harddrive to my desktop. The plan was to copy-in the missing file. But my desktop is WinNT and the laptop was WinXP, and I couldn't see the necessary c:/windows/system32 directory and thus couldn't copy the file. But I could see the rest of the drive so I've snatched as much pertinent information as I could think of and will be working to restore full functionality. Things are getting busy around here so I may not have as much time to work on this as I'd like, though.
( Apr 26 2004, 10:55:25 PM ) Personal Permalink [Trackback]

Digester XMLRules

I think this is the first time I've ever seen an article on Digester actually use the FromXmlRuleSet to read Rules from an XML file. To take it one step further they'd have to use the DigesterRulesSource, something I've never seen documented. I recently refactored Atom4J to use Rulesets, the bonus was that I also made my RuleSets implement DigesterRulesSource. The next step is to write the "digesterrules.xml" to make use of these classes.
( Apr 26 2004, 02:26:32 PM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

Friday April 23, 2004

Google Zeitgeist Thanks for the link, Matt. There is lot's of interesting material here. I wish you could click them for more information, though. I'm continually interested in browser (brand and version) usage trends.
( Apr 23 2004, 12:41:21 PM ) Technology Permalink Comments [1] [Trackback]

Re: All Java Blocks Should Allow Finally

Nick has hit the nail on the head with this one. My hope in linking to this is that the idea will get picked up and added to the next JDK.
( Apr 23 2004, 10:01:54 AM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

Wednesday April 21, 2004

Bookmark Plugin

I just checked in yet another Plugin (whee, this is fun). This one will find any Bookmark names in your entry and replace it with a link, such as this one to Russell Beattie and this one to Sam Ruby. I suppose other tools have had this for awhile, but now...

Re: Running from backup

I've tracked down a "laptop to IDE adaptor" and ordered it, should arrive in a few days. With any luck, I will then be able to replace the defective file and all will be well again. In the meantime I've managed to recover a couple posts from myself and Jen from Bloglines. Kevin & Bruce, I'm sorry this happened. If you don't want to wait until/if I can restore the laptop, perhaps you can recover any lost posts the same way, or from Feedster?

Update: I found your stuff archived for Bruce and Kevin. I'll be restoring uploaded files and Bookmarks once I get access to that harddrive.
( Apr 21 2004, 03:18:47 PM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]