Monthly Archives: May 2007

Surround SCM and Vista: Shine on

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Grant

So when running the current version (5.0.4 at time of writing) of Surround SCM on Windows Vista there is a little problem. Instead of seeing this: you end up getting this: with a demeaning warning that looks like this: And, … Continue reading →

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An exacta box with JavaScript would have paid phat money. D’oh.

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Grant

Last night over at the Jeff Atwood’s blog he posted a really good article about Javascript. It reminded of a basketball game I played in probably 8 or 9 years ago now. (Brace for tangent in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. … Continue reading →

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Wanted: A monkey with eyesight problems

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Grant

So today something happened that has never happened in all my years of computer use. I had to use Cmd+ (translation from Mac-speak: increase the text size) a website I was reading because the font was too small for my … Continue reading →

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lpr YouStupidPrinterTakeThis.txt

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Grant

The other day I had the joy and the privilege to debug some printing code. Oh yeah, it was as much as fun as you might be thinking. To make it even better the bug was showing up only on … Continue reading →

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