Monday, November 20, 2006

damn Windows Word Charset

Although i thought i may have some more time working than eventually fixing some weird IE 6 Bugs i found one which held me up all day.

It looks like IE 6 sends illegal (malformed) HTTP POST request from forms which held some non ISO chars.

The thing is: i was able to find this site which helped me identify what my bug was, but then i traced it to one simple char.

It was one of Microsoft Word fu%$&ing Chars for - which where copied through to the textArea and so IE 6 was unable to work properly.

In the end two Microsoft Products were creating a Problem because they are unable to work correctly together.

If i wouldn't be such a nice guy i would curse the inventor of Words Charset!!

Firefox 2 missing Addons

Firefox 2 has been out for some time now and there are still some Addons which have not been updated from their authors.

But since there is a big community there are several updates from other people to get the add on running on FF 2.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

svn your system

After my friend used subversion also for the linux system for quite some time now i thought i give it finally a try.

Installing svn or importing the system was not the problem, but how am i able to add the system into svn without having to checkout at the end.

Goggling with the right words i found this.

The Trick is to add the directories by hand into the svn with mkdir and then checkout the empty directory into your system. Then all you have to do is to add all files and directories and commit everything:

# svn mkdir file:///root/svn-repository/etc
-m "Make a directory in the repository to correspond to /etc"
# cd /etc
# svn co file:///root/svn-repository/etc .
# svn add *
# svn ci -m "Initial version of my config files"

Monday, November 13, 2006

Firefox will not start after installing SiteAdvisor

Today my Firefox did not start which was quite annoying for a Monday morning. The Safe Mode feature of FF was very helpful since i easily was able to find the course of the problem.

I have installed the SiteAdvisor extension from McAfee and after some googling i found this Article.

On Friday i changed my Proxy Settings from Direct Connection to Automatic (we had some problems with our servers) and forgot to undo this...

quite annoying "Feature" of the Extension.