Category: Legacy

Posted on by lhl

wsp now:

“Netscape 6 still plays like beta software,” said Glenn Davis, a co-founder of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an independent Web publisher. “The results I’ve had using it seem to indicate that it’s just not quite finished. I’d have much rather seen them wait until the Mozilla project had their 1.0 version complete instead of rushing it out the door.

wsp a few months ago:

Why are you taking forever to deliver a usable browser? And why, if you are a company that believes in web standards, do you keep Navigator 4 on the market? …

We wish everyone shared your passion to do the right thing and deliver XML and the DOM inside the browser. But if it takes you another six months to pull this off, the world’s first fully standards-compliant browser could be playing to an empty house. And the message such a failure would send is: “Don’t support standards if you want to stay in business.” If you send the world that message, you will have harmed the cause you meant to help.

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Posted on by lhl

i just finished watching a divx of the uncut batman beyond: return of the joker (courtesy of cutemx). man, paul dini, timm, and garnett reeeeaaaally have their shit together. the movie rocked. it’s unfortunate that the version being released in december has been recut (6 minutes trimmed) in major way. ostensibly to remove unecessary violence, what it really does is rip out the core of what the story is about. imo, the stuff wb cut out hurts the movie tremendously.

also, the interesting thing about using cutemx is that 90% of the time, it seems that the search returns completely nonsensical, nonrelated, and random stuff. very weird. also, if you repeat the search, you end up with a whole new set of random results. very weird.

oh, did i mention that this movie is the best batman movie ever made? beats mask of the phantasm by a mile, and puts tim burton’s batman to shame. too bad most people will probably never see it, and even less people will be able to see the whole thing.

Posted on by lhl

this article on getting a computer system to work is a fascinating read and very informative. the whole washing the entire system thing is rather bizarre though. one comment talks about using isopropyl alcohol vs water (more expensive, but much safer). your moment of zen:

Silicon, aluminum, and gold don’t rust. They on the other hand conduct electricity as equally well as water does. I could probably write an article unto itself on how and how not to do this. You just can’t jump into it.

Once you have finished rinsing it off, get a good grip on the hardware, and shake the ever living hell out of it (within reason you don’t want to put so much force into it that something bows or breaks). Then I set it within vicinity of a space heater and let the warm air quickly dry off the remaining droplets.

Cleaning the motherboard this way is the most difficult. The battery must be removed. It must have had enough idle time unplugged from both the battery and power supply that any residual charge has bled off.

After rinsing it off, you will find that shaking it and putting it before the space heater is not enough. You will have to physically put your mouth on the part and suck the water out of PCI, ISA, AGP and other such connectors which have small porous surfaces. Spitting it out or swallowing it is your choice, it is just water after all. Then it gets placed back before the space heater and left for a number of hours.

This isn’t something you hurry through. It is also not for the faint hearted.