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Spam Wars: Round 1… Fight!
My blog has been receiving a lot of spam lately, at a rate of about 50 dummy comments per day. As my current web hosting doesn’t allow me to open socket connections, a part of WordPress functionality (including Akismet, the spam checker plug-in shipped with WordPress) won’t work. I knew about the limitations and am [...]
Using HTML for SVG intra-navigation
I’ve just finished a demo which tries to fill a long caveat among SVG implementations: a consistent front-end for internal document navigation (zoom, pan, etc.). It took me a while to workaround and document a few subtle bugs in several implementations, as well as recently integrating SVG Web, which has it’s own set of limitations, [...]
First Things… First?
Hello world!
First of all, a quick apology to fellow Portuguese readers for deciding to publish this blog in English. It wasn’t very hard to decide, as English is the language of the Internet, but me being a big fan of my mother tongue made the choice slightly less obvious. Naturally, I [...]
Emacs triggers bugs in SVG implementations
OK, I better start by stating this post’s title is actually a pun: as far as I know, Emacs doesn’t cause any interoperability issues with SVG implementations, but I thought like a sensationalist headline from time to time won’t hurt…
Today I stumbled across emacsformacosx.com, a nice HTML+SVG use-case: HTML for the actual text [...]
“Introducing” Adobe SVG Viewer 8
A common belief is that ASV 6 Developer Release 1 was the last version of the famous Adobe SVG Viewer software (ASV 3.03 being the last stable release). Well, apparently not…
Distributed with Adobe Reader 8, one can take a peek at the ImageViewer.API file, placed within the plug_ins directory (full path will typically [...]
Don’t get fooled by “Full”!
Today, while browsing through my system’s BIOS for some tweaks, I noticed a strange sentence in my peripheral configurations:
Configures the USB 2.0 controller in HiSpeed (480Mbps) or FullSpeed (12Mbps).
Full-speed at 12 Mbps and Hi-speed at 480 Mbps? Damn, is this a typo in the BIOS textual description or am I missing something? I crawled the [...]