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Installing Gmyclient on Red Hat 9 Systems

I have long considered gMyClient to be the very best mysql client for gnome. To my knowledge it’s also the only one specifically made for gnome. So it’s a little sad that the maintainer hasn’t done anything with for about a year. It’s only...

Changing the Program Menu

For some reason, a few days ago my Programs menu suddenly reverted to what I think must have been the Red Hat 9 menus, complete with artwork from the Bluecurve theme. Which I love by the way. They’re by Garrett at linuxart.com and I think they are very...

Linux and Windows Networking

But if there are network drives you need to access on a regular basis, you should do the following: make a mnt directory in your home directory make a directory for each of the network shares you need to access Open a terminal and enter root mode open /etc/fstab and...

Usable Browser Space Part 1

The following are the measurements I got in browsers on the Windows 2000 platform. To get the measurements, I left the browsers in their standard configuration (if the user adds or removes a toolbar, that will affect these numbers). All measurements were taken by...

PNG Web Transparency

At Microsoft’s site, they give this sample code snippet. The essential part is the additional style entry:filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader( src=’image.png’, sizingMethod=’scale’);By the way, I would make sure...

Worst Nightmare True

Well it appears that I have become what I have long despised in the web design world: the php portal site. Now I don’t think it’s as bad as most, but I’m afraid that the site does suffer from clutter on the frontpage. This was brought to my attention...