Daily Archives: August 9, 2009

What should I use instead of IE6?

There is an all-out war on Internet Explorer 6.0 being waged. On the one side we’ve got developers that are tired of performing the voodoo needed to make anything function inside of that browser. The other side is usually people who don’t use the internet very often and typically think it’s a bunch of worthless

Bugaround: “Close Window” tooltip got stuck?

I’ve reported this bug about the “Close Window” tooltip getting stuck above all other windows and not going away. Until the bug is fixed, if you encounter this problem you can workaround it by pressing ALT+F2 and issuing the command gtk-window-decorator –replace. This will cause gtk-window-decorator to be reloaded.

CSS Sprites: HTTP Traffic and Compression Ratios

I’m kinda disappointed in the web development community for being such a lumbering beast. New ideas and methods come out regularly that are proven to work great, but often times we fail to adapt if there isn’t a lot of external pressure. CSS Sprites, simply put, are a win-win. Steve Souders explains this well in

Intel Microphones in Ubuntu Linux (9.04)

If you want to use Skype or record audio with any other application you may have to slightly configure your microphone. This post isn’t an exhaustive list of all the possible ways to get your recording working Ubuntu, but really is targeted to anyone who has similar hardware or where the solution is the same.