Christian Heilmann

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Rewind, Reboot

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

My personal copy of Norton Internet Security arrived. Jesus I hate all that installing and rebooting. Maybe I just switch to linux soon.

what a wonderful day

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

It was sunny and nice today, so I decided to buy a bicycle and explore the city. London seems to be 90% uphill, I know that now.

When I came back I got an email from my ISP about a possible Virus infection, although I got AVG Free Edition running. I checked with the Symantec online checker, and suprise surprise, some trojans were there. Now I ordered my suite and feel like asking Microsoft to sponsor it. The only reason I deal with this crap instead of installing linux and get it over with is that my visitors and clients do use windows, and I need to replicate their environment to see where bugs occur. Now, as Microsoft is able to sell the most, partly because the OS is so easy to extend with some programming knowledge, they should also pay for us to keep it secure. Personally I really don’t see why anyone would write a virus for Windows, other than getting money for it or working for an antivirus company. There is no challenge to it…

Internet Explorer vs. Mozilla #12133

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

There is a wonderful tongue-in-cheek comparison of Fx and MSIE on BBSpot. For a change, it does not compare the technicalities of the two browsers, but the things that really matter, like the stereotypical users and if it can help you to get laid.

Interesting liquid layout

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

I just looked at the new Rammstein web site www.rammstein.com and was quite impressed by the way it deals with different browser sizes. Resize your browser window to see what I mean. Nicely done, that.

Printing background images

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

One of our clients complained that our print stylesheet doesn’t work as the backgrounds don’t get printed.
This is a setting of the browser, not a CSS issue. In MSIE, it is part of the Advanced Options of the Internet Settings:
printing backgrounds in MSIE
In Firefox, it is an option in the File – Page Setup dialogue:
printing backgrounds in Firefox

[tags]printing, webdevtrick[/tags]