New Toy

geoffoliver - January 28, 2006

Tagged as: Tech, Hardware, Shopping

I just bought a new All-For-One Kameleon universal remote because I was sick of the clutter of remote controls on my coffee table. This thing rocks!

Depending on what device you have selected, certain buttons will disappear. It can learn commands from other remotes. I had to teach it the "Input" command for my replay otherwise there's no way to turn off commercial advance. It even controls my Technics stereo from the 80's. It has a very plesant blue glow and a nice velvety backside. It's doesn't use an LCD which is good - no fingerprints or smudges. I also don't have to worry about pressing a button to hard and breaking the LCD. It uses some sort of backlit display. The buttons have a very satisfying "click" to them but if you let go too quickly, the remote produces a very annoying snapping sound. Overall, I am very satisfied with this purchase. Now I just have to figure out how to get it to work with the media center computer and I will have one super cool remote for all my stuff.

CSS Bugs, Free (il)legal Music, etc

geoffoliver - December 21, 2005

Tagged as: Tech, Personal, Software, Hardware, News, Web Design, Miscellaneous

Lots of stuff...

Week started off learning about a CSS/display bug in Netscape 8. The site I was working on was a fixed width and height centered in the viewport with a scrollable div that contains the primary content. I had to add a "overflow: hidden;" to the BODY tag to prevent IE 5.2 Mac from displaying unneeded scrollbars on the site. Doing that caused random rendering issues within the scrolling div. More often than not, anything inside a P tag would cut off about a half inch below where the P starts. Once in a while, the page would render correctly, but I'd say 90% of the time it was wrong. The content was there, it seemed to be hidden behind something though. If I could select something on the page and drag down, whatever was in the P would scroll! Most peculiar. Removing the "overflow: hidden;" fixed the problem. If anyone else has this problem, I hope this was useful :)

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