Category Archives: Information Technology
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, [...]
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 [...]