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MySQL Gotchas

Things that might not work as you expect in MySQL have been collected together at this site devoted to things database: MySQL Gotchas

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Sat, May 29 2004 » MySQL » Comments Off

BIND Fail

I keep getting this RNDC error on start and shutdown. It’s not sorted yet, but there’s a clue I found on on a mailing list at http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2003/12/msg00042.html which reads:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Ben Donohue wrote:
> Hi David,
> I had this problem recently and it turned out to be that ipv4 forwarding
> was turned [...]

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Fri, May 28 2004 » Linux » No Comments

Standard compliant _blank target

Found out how to do this, whereby the _blank target becomes standards compliant in XHTML as target is not recognised.
<a onclick=”window.open(this.href,’_blank’);return false;” href=”http://some_oother_site.com”>Some Other Site</a>
As recommended also at Zeldman recently.

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Thu, May 27 2004 » Web developing » No Comments

Sorting out box model troubles in css

This site was made partly possible with a little help received with regard the outside border. In Netscape / Mozilla there was a problem with the contents overlapping the border because elements are set to float. To clear the problem, use clear:both to be compliant, as opposed to <br clear=”all”>
I found the details at: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~mbrubeck/clear-after/

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Fri, May 21 2004 » Web developing » No Comments