You may be surprised to learn they currently use:

• box-shadow
• text-shadow
• border-radius
• border-color
• opacity
• rgba

You can see the difference this makes between browsers that support CSS3 and those that don’t (Firefox 3.6.3 at the top and IE8 bellow both running on windows)

Last.fm Header Comparison

Last.fm Box Comparison

As you can see the menu items are utilizing the text-shadow property to give them a very slight.. text shadow! And the drop down profile box to the right is using the box-shadow property. The second image shows the border-radius in use to round the corners of the boxes.

Doing it in this way allows for pretty nice degradation between the browsers that support these new properties and those that don’t, and are a nice little perk to those users of the supported browsers.

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To access the panel you need your servers ip address and then you can access it via your web browser like so: 90.105.106.42:4643

Under the Packages tab you can see the list of applications that are available to your server, an example of which can be seen bellow.

From this screen you can Install, Update and Remove programs from your server at your discretion. Handy if you need to install, remove or even update programs like Perl, Plesk API common files, awstats, nano text editor etc.

For those not familiar with the command line of UNIX, this is a god send.

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Got pretty frustrated with this today, playing around with jQuery’s Validation plugin and had it all setup nicely, then I noticed once everything was validated I couldn’t submit the form.. Odd!

No errors in Firefox/Chrome so switched over to good old Internet Explorer which produced this error message:

Webpage error details

Message: Object doesn’t support this property or method
Line: 33
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://www.example.com/globals/js/main.js

Message: Object doesn’t support this property or method
Line: 33
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://www.example.com/globals/js/main.js

And this line correspondences to the form.submit() in the submitHandler, as seen bellow

submitHandler: function(form) {
$(“div.error”).hide();
form.submit();
},

Interesting.. Now the submit method is indeed supported as stated in the Validation Plugins documentation (which you can see here). So what’s breaking it?

Apparently jQuery does something funky in relation to the markup of your form if the submit button with the form markup is named the same as the method, in this case – ‘<input name=”submit” type=”submit” />’.

So the fix here would be to re-name your forms submit to something else for example – ‘<input name=”submitBtn” type=”submit” />’ should do it.

I’m just starting to get to grips with all this jQuery stuff so if anyone knows why this was happening post in the comments, be good to know for future reference!

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All in just over an hour, not bad for the two long breaks I took lol…

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Latitude

Longitude

Elevation

Partdistance

Parttime

Partmovingtime

Partspeed

Partmovingspeed

Partmaxspeed

Part Climb Up

Part Climb Down

Part Heart Rate

Distance

Time

Movingtime

Speed

Movingspeed

Max Speed

Climb Up

Climb Down

Heart Rate

1

N 52° 37' 16.18"

E 1° 43' 46.42"

26 m

0.000 mi

0s

0s

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-

-

-

-

-

0.000 mi

0s

0s

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-

-

-

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2

N 52° 41' 11.76"

E 1° 41' 50.72"

71 m

5.009 mi

21m 19s

19m 55s

14.10 mph

15.09 mph

50.96 mph

318 ft

171 ft

0

5.009 mi

21m 19s

19m 55s

14.10 mph

15.09 mph

50.96 mph

318 ft

171 ft

0

3

N 52° 42' 24.90"

E 1° 38' 07.16"

69 m

4.997 mi

28m 41s

28m 05s

10.45 mph

10.68 mph

112.94 mph

272 ft

279 ft

0

10.007 mi

50m 00s

48m 00s

12.01 mph

12.51 mph

112.94 mph

591 ft

449 ft

0

4

N 52° 40' 28.21"

E 1° 40' 10.55"

51 m

5.006 mi

40m 00s

37m 25s

7.51 mph

8.03 mph

158.16 mph

256 ft

315 ft

0

15.013 mi

1h 30m 00s

1h 25m 25s

10.01 mph

10.55 mph

158.16 mph

846 ft

764 ft

0

5

N 52° 37' 59.68"

E 1° 43' 40.60"

61 m

4.611 mi

19m 06s

18m 51s

14.48 mph

14.68 mph

39.48 mph

233 ft

200 ft

0

19.624 mi

1h 49m 06s

1h 44m 16s

10.79 mph

11.29 mph

158.16 mph

1079 ft

965 ft

0

Summary

19.624 mi

1h 49m 06s

1h 44m 16s

10.79 mph

11.29 mph

158.16 mph

1079 ft

965 ft

0

Norfolk Route

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Halo Reach - Forge World

Bungie recently took the wraps off the Forge editor at Comic Con for their upcoming title Halo Reach, it is a huge improvement over the previous version included with Halo 3, which was safe to say quite clunky and restrictive. It is now a very clean, very usable editor with fine-tuned controls and a better object collision system allowing for more control over objects and the way they interact with each other.

But what people may not know is that the Halo Community itself wanted this, a long time ago and what a group of hackers achieved in 2004 was a map editor for the original Halo (xBox) – all well before Halo 3′s in-game version which shipped September 25th 2007.

The Forge Editor is essentially a map editor for the multiplayer aspect of the game, the editor allows you to Spawn, Move and Delete game-world objects – not the actual terrain however, like some other map editors.

When players first got their hands on this new tool in Halo 3 the community went absolutely crazy, and the sheer amount of different things that the community created took Bungie by surprise, they knew it was going to be a hit, they just didn’t release how big it was going to be and how the community would take it to its limits.

Example Halo 3 Forge Art - Ghostbusters: Who You Gonna Call

But it was easy to see how much the Halo Community at large wanted to mess around with different aspects of the game, you can see this from the hive of activity in the Halo Modding scene.

Perhaps this is where Bungie got the idea from, straight from the Halo Modding Scene – or maybe it was always in the back of their minds that it was something they wanted to do and the technology of the Xbox360 allowed them to do this.

When I initially saw the new Forge I was instantly reminded of a picture I had taken back in 2004 when I doing the exact same thing, before pretty much everyone else – and I want people to know that we had this, and not to forget, which is why I’m writing this post..

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Apple Option Key

Want to be able to select multiple iTunes profiles on a mac? Wondering why holding shift isn’t bring the profile selection window up? Well it’s slightly different on mac than on windows, you need to hold down the apple option key instead!

Simples!

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Cannot Connect to Steam Network – please try again later.

What you may need to do, which worked for me is to delete ‘ClientRegistry.blob’ in Steam’s installation folder (C:\Program Files\Steam) and try to restart steam. If this doesn’t do the trick try deleting ‘AppUpdateStats.blob‘.

Steam Error Message

I also had to run Steam with administrator privileges initially after this to get it to work, let me know if this works for you too.

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To fix this you need to either turn off openbase_dir or make it so that the PHP running on the target domain can access the directory where ImageMagick resides. First you need to modify your vhost.conf, you can see examples of modifying/changing/reloading this config file here.

php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs:/tmp:/usr/bin/

Above you can see the line of code that needs to be added, the first two options ‘/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs’ and ‘/tmp’ are the default running settings (restricting things), so when defining the value of the open_basedir you need to re-declare these two. The third path allows our PHP to access that folder when running, and so can now access ImageMagick etc, along with a lot of other things.. Security risk perhaps, but at least it works for now.

I’ll look into a more secure method, please comment if you can suggest/add anything to this topic.

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