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Neal Grosskopf - tech - 7/2/2008 1:14:08 PM

Neal Grosskopf — Mon, 2 Jul 2008 13:14:8 CST

Yeah it was a lot of trial and error, and trial and error really sucks with operating system installs, since they generally take 30 minutes each. If you mess something up you get waste another 30 minutes installing it over again. For the time being I'll keep the three OS. I need XP for old video games (really really old ones). I need Vista for new video games that take advantage of DirectX 10, and Kubuntu was just nice to have, basically to eliminate using a LiveCD.

Chris Retlich - tech - 7/2/2008 12:24:10 PM

Chris Retlich — Mon, 2 Jul 2008 12:24:10 CST

Sounds like a lot of work, but it's good to see that you got it working. Now you should throw some variety of BSD (Open, Free, or Net) on there too yet, since it's not quite Linux. Not sure that I would bother with Vista ;)

Chris Retlich - openlinks - 6/26/2008 2:54:54 AM

Chris Retlich — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:54:54 CST

Have one of those already, got it for about $19 after shipping (or maybe free shipping?). Seems to work pretty well. Another idea is to use it with a surge protector to test an entire computer system at once. Of course, don't overload the poor thing in the process. It's amazing, a CRT uses about 10 more watts to display a solid white screen than it does a solid black one, whereas it makes no noticeable difference on an LCD.

Chris Retlich - tech - 6/25/2008 12:21:35 AM

Chris Retlich — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:21:35 CST


if len(replace(embed,"youtube","")) <> len(embed) then

AAAAAAAAA!!!!!


if instr(embed,"youtube",1) then

Also,


... replace(link,"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=","") ...

could be replaced with:


... mid(link,31) ...

(the index, 31, could be off by one)

Otherwise... pretty clever trick. I made a page (super secret URL) on my site where you feed it the video ID from YouTube, and it grabs the video file (flv) and saves it onto my server. From there, I can download it at my own leisure, even resume the download later. Plus, if YT chooses to yank the video, I still can finish downloading it. The flv files seem to play well in VLC.

Neal Grosskopf - openlinks - 6/21/2008 10:12:39 PM

Neal Grosskopf — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:12:39 CST

Nope, just found it one day. Looks like it's a squatter site now.

joe mama - openlinks - 6/21/2008 9:33:19 PM

joe mama — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:33:19 CST

so did you own trollwars.com?

Neal Grosskopf - blog - 6/20/2008 4:05:51 PM

Neal Grosskopf — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:05:51 CST

Hi Steve. It's always nice to see another Grosskopf online. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only Grosskopf with a web presence. BTW, I own the grosskopf.name domain, which I use for email addresses i.e steve@grosskopf.name. Let me know if you'd like an addy.

Steve Grosskopf - blog - 6/20/2008 3:14:29 PM

Steve Grosskopf — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:14:29 CST

Neal, I was looking for something entirely different on the web when I came across a fellow Grosskopf. As you know, our last names are not exactly Smith or Patel. I have an Uncle Neil Grosskopf as well. Nice job on the web and great going in school. I've been doing websites on the side as well so please check out www.neatnessweb.com

Neal Grosskopf - tech - 6/19/2008 6:39:19 PM

Neal Grosskopf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:39:19 CST

I did find an answer to your problem. It may not work in all cases but on a test page, I was able to make this work. You can use a negative margin on decedent images of external link anchors. Remember to substitute the negative padding with the opposite of the padding on the anchor tag.


a[href^="http"]
{
background: url(/images/template/external.gif) no-repeat center right;
padding-right: 13px;
}

a[href^="http"] img { margin-right: -13px; }

Neal Grosskopf - openlinks - 6/19/2008 1:05:23 PM

Neal Grosskopf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:05:23 CST

Those are some nice pictures of it. You really bring out the best features of it. Is there a limit to the number of photos you can post on that website?

Neal Grosskopf - tech - 6/18/2008 8:12:44 PM

Neal Grosskopf — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:12:44 CST

I've usually circumvented this by applying a class to image tags within anchors, something like class="nostyle". This isn't the most ideal way to go about it but it works. There isn't a way (via CSS anyways) to traverse the DOM going up. You can only select downwards such as A > IMG. You cannot do IMG < A.

David Smith - tech - 6/17/2008 5:45:35 AM

David Smith — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:45:35 CST

Like the idea. 1 big flaw. What do you do if you have an img which is a link to an external site?

Chris Retlich - tech - 6/14/2008 9:15:16 PM

Chris Retlich — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:15:16 CST

Wow, great detective work there. It looks like maybe they just do an internal replacing of anything to . You should try other ways of targeting image vs. img to see what treats them the same, and what doesn't. For example, do an alert(imageObject); vs. alert(imgObject); to see if they give the same answer.

Neal Grosskopf - gallery - 6/12/2008 8:03:37 PM

Neal Grosskopf — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:03:37 CST

This photo was shown on WBAY channel 2.

Chris Retlich - tech - 6/11/2008 12:40:18 AM

Chris Retlich — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:40:18 CST

In PHP:


function CreatePageClassName(){
	return "url".preg_replace(array('/(\/)/','/\.(.+)/'),array('_',''),$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}

Or, to mangle and shorten your code:


function CreatePageClassName()
	url=lcase(request.ServerVariables("URL"))
	CreatePageClassName="url_"&replace(replace(right(url,len(url)-1),"/","_"),".asp","")
end function

Neal Grosskopf - blog - 6/9/2008 8:18:45 AM

Neal Grosskopf — Mon, 9 Jun 2008 08:18:45 CST

Oh yeah, I had that on my old site as well, but it wasn't as prominent as it is on this version.

Chris Retlich - openvideos - 6/9/2008 11:36:11 PM

Chris Retlich — Mon, 9 Jun 2008 23:36:11 CST

... Photoshop is a game.

You mean like this: Photoshop as a Game?

Chris Retlich - blog - 6/9/2008 11:23:10 PM

Chris Retlich — Mon, 9 Jun 2008 23:23:10 CST

Oops.

"You threw in a referral webhosting link too ;)"
"You threw in a 1&1 referral link too ;)"
etc.

Neal Grosskopf - gallery - 6/8/2008 7:33:53 PM

Neal Grosskopf — Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:33:53 CST

I think so, so wasn't consumed with happiness but she thought it was cool. Not being much of a gift guy, it was a lot coming from me :P If you would like to make a similar gift go to designamosaic.com

Kate - gallery - 6/8/2008 7:26:04 PM

Kate — Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:26:4 CST

That's AWESOME! Did she love it?!

Neal Grosskopf - blog - 6/7/2008 9:56:03 AM

Neal Grosskopf — Sat, 7 Jun 2008 09:56:3 CST

"You threw in a referral link too"

What do you mean?

Chris Retlich - blog - 6/7/2008 1:22:24 AM

Chris Retlich — Sat, 7 Jun 2008 01:22:24 CST

Hmmm... the little menu next to your logo looks like the menus on Microsoft's website. Everything seems so different (I was lost for the first minute or three), yet so much the same (thus I was able to find my way around a bit). Hmmm... You threw in a referral link too ;)

Chris Retlich - openlinks - 5/31/2008 2:00:12 AM

Chris Retlich — Tue, 31 May 2008 02:00:12 CST

Now I can see why my former high school principal moved to New London - he gets paid a lot more there than his replacement in Kiel does.

Neal Grosskopf - gallery - 5/20/2008 8:00:16 AM

Neal Grosskopf — Fri, 20 May 2008 08:00:16 CST

Hey nice eye Sarah! Yup, I basically took a picture of some of the grass/weeds right next to the dock. I took a bunch of other pictures as well but I liked this one the best.

Sarah Anderson - gallery - 5/20/2008 7:14:43 AM

Sarah Anderson — Fri, 20 May 2008 07:14:43 CST

i can see the shed at the top of the hill and the dock along with the zipline cord. that is so cool.