One of the most common Apache2 questions I've seen on Debian mailing lists is from users who wonder how to host multiple websites with a single server. This is very straightforward, especially with the additional tools the Debian package provides. Read more »
Text for the screen is sized with CSS in terms of pixels, ems or keywords. As most of us know, sizing with pixels is easy: get your selector and give it a font-size – no more thought required. Sizing with keywords is more complicated and requires a few workarounds, but you’re in luck as the techniques are well documented. That leaves ems. At this point people often leg it. ‘Ems are too inconsistent,’ they say, ‘they’re too hard; they never work.’ Well that may be the received wisdom, but if ever the was a case of FUD then this is it. I will now attempt to show you how ems can be as quick and easy to use as pixels.
There are two types of length units: relative and absolute. Relative length units specify a length relative to
another length property. Style sheets that use relative units will more easily scale from one medium to another
(e.g., from a computer display to a laser printer). - W3C Relative units are: Read more »
A hacker picking apart the security model of Microsoft's brand new Windows Server 2008 has found serious design weaknesses that render some of the product's new security protections "useless."
When you can’t be troubled to reach over and pick up the handheld
calculator sitting on your desk, you can use Google as a high-tech web-based
calculator. All you have to do is enter your equation or formula into the
standard Google search box, and then click the Google Search button. The result
of the calculation is displayed on the search results page; it’s that
simple. Read more »
Animals also feel fear and anguish at facing death, and struggle to preserve their existence. The true story of Emily illustrates the anguish that a three-year-old Holstein cow felt when it was about to be slaughtered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Read more »
A businessman hired a sixteen-year-old New Jersey hacker to disable the Web sites of his competitors. The hacker launched a program that placed bots on 2,000 unprotected computers that he then used for a distributed denial of service attack. Read more »
