Date: 06/23/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: web

We are currently in the process of building a new, more robust Intranet.  One of the things being sought is a replacement for an extremely large network share for shared files.

I can create a page to parse out, display and present a download for a file.  Likewise, I can provide functionality to allow for a file upload.  However, there has been, on more than one occasion, mention of drag and drop functionality.

I have accomplished this with WebDAV previously, but that is not "integrated" into the web site.

I am going to check out Sharepoint services or even server.  However, as we are a coldfusion shop, I'd like something that is fully integrated in to the pages we create and not a stub site for a single purpose.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/39807.html

Date: 06/24/06 (Algorithms)    Keywords: web

Here is some code from a uc berkeley lecture on insertion sort (available from the amazing berkeley webcasts, CS61B, "Sorting I" lecture ):
Presumably A is an existing array.

for (int i=1; i   int j;
   Object x = A[i];
   for (j=i-1; j>= 0; j-= 1) {
      if (A[j].compareTo (x) <= 0)  /* (1) */
         break;
      A[j+1] = A[j];
   }
   A[j+1] = x;
}


I have two questions (I'm not in the class, just watching the webcasts):
1)  In the code "A[j].compareTo(x)", I imagine that compareTo is some kind of callback which is supposed to already be implemented on this type of data. Is there a way I'm supposed to know how the callback is supposed to behave - I figure it returns 0 when the values are equal, but what about if a is greater than b? By the logic of this program, a.compareTo(b) returns something less than 0 if a is less than b. Is this behavior standard, or just a function of this program?

2) There is a comment that says "/*  (1)   */"
I don't understand what this means. Does anyone else?

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/algorithms/79867.html

Date: 06/24/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: software, web

This may be a somewhat trivial question, but I'm pretty new to all of this IT stuff, and self taught so I'm trying to piece things togeather. At the place where I work, we have around 10 printers you can get to over the network, or by IP if you have a mac. I check all of those for paper, etc, once a day but sometimes the paper will run out between checks and create a bottleneck on another printer, not to mention those with the mentality of "oh, i didn't work the first time, let me hit the print button 20 more times to see what happens" so when we do get the printer up again a couple hundred pages come shooting out that we throw away (huge waste). So, the vision I have, is a webpage that updates itself to reflect the status of our printers, that I can check to see when a printer has an error like no ink, and everyone else can use if they want to find a printer without a long que of jobs. Is there any way to do that, preferably without extra software we have to pay for? A friend suggested using lcp status in terminal to get the number of jobs in the que, however we were off location and unable to test if the number in the que reflects every job waiting in the printer, or just ones that computer has sent to be printed, and after googling it I wasn't clear on the answer. Also, more than that, I'd really like the page to show when the printer is, say, out of paper. I found a log in the cups part of console for errors, and I was thinking that if I could simply make an apple script that checked the console, pulled text from it to the website, anytime someone tried to print and there was an error the site would reflect it and I could take care of it (basically, no need for the status to constantly update, just reflect when someone tried to print and there is an issue). However, if my logic is right (and again, I haven't tested this out) then, because it's an error message, the error would only show up in the log of the computer that was trying to print, not any computer on the network... unless someone can think of some way around that so that it does show up? My idea was to use one of our old G3's and, should we work some way out to get the consule file to show any error on the printer, run the apple script on that and somehow have that dynamically update the website. I'm not sure if the concept I'm going for makes sense at all, but has anyone tried anything similar before, or have any steps in the general direction I might could try?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/40092.html

Date: 06/24/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web, hosting

Are there any good web hosts out there other than Dreamhost?

I was looking at it but it's a little too expensive for me. lol

Does anybody recommend Bravenet? I was thinking about signing up for their Basic Web Hosting.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/330284.html

Date: 06/24/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, web, yahoo, google

Google is massively pushing its web browser toolbar everywhere around the world. Google has agreed to pay a “significant amount” to have Google toolbar bundled with select Adobe downloads. Initially it will downloaded with the popular and free Shockwave multimedia player, replacing current Yahoo Toolbar option. I am less than impressed with recent Yahoo products like [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adobe-bundles-google-toolbar-with-shockwave-for-internet-explorer-on-windows/

Date: 06/24/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, google

France unveiled Géoportail website on Friday. It allows people to access detailed satellite images of the country and offers more detail of France than Google Earth. France President Jacques Chirac realized the need for France to have a site which beats Google earth, a site which allows Internet users to view aerial photos and maps, saying [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-earth-rival-for-france/

Date: 06/25/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: web

I'm creating a webpage using MS Word 2000.  Every time I insert a picture, it ends up smaller than the original file, even though the picture properties say the size is 100%.  What's going on??

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/646534.html

Date: 06/25/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, web

What is the easiest way to add the regular navigation menu of a website, to the top of a phpbb forum page?

And is it possible to have a different default skin show up based on the different ways you enter the forum? Like when you have two different domain names pointed at the same forum, so you have abc.net/forum and xyz.net/forum.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1130387.html

Date: 06/25/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, web

Is there an easy way to have two different skins on your website, based on how you enter the website.

For example:
If you were to enter this website as http://vampiretherequiem.net it would show the red/white/grey background.

and if you enter the website as http://werewolftheforsaken.net it would show the orange/brown/white background.

Note: It shows the right page when you first enter the werewolf section, but then once you click on the main menu it goes back to the red background of course. I want to be able to see all the same pages, in the orange background without having to completely remake the the enter website, and I was wondering if there was a php way, similar to phpbb forum skins, to do that.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1130030.html

Date: 06/25/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: web

Hello again ^^'
I want my website to be navigable in an 800x600 window. (Unchangable, non-maximizable)
I don't want the location URL bar, toolbars, tabs and such to appear when users go to the site, i just want a plain 800x600 window with the content in it.
I once used pop-up windows, and when one clicked on the link the new target would be a specific, non-editable size.
But i am not using a pop up code this time and the code i'm trying to use doesn't seem to work, or is working but showing all the toolbars and such....
Confusing, i'm sorry ^^

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/103820.html

Date: 06/26/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software, web, google

i already googled this and came up with nothing. i currently have an hp scanjet 4600 scanner on windows xp. i am totally fed up with the crappy software that came with it. it's buggy and works when it wants to and it's way to bloated, etc.

so i was wondering if there was some kind of freeware or open source alternative scanning software. i tried to acquire within photoshop but nothing happened. i downloaded the "driver only" package from the hp website and tried to use that but nothing worked either. i don't need anything complicated, just something where i can select the area of the bed i want to scan, the resolution and maybe the file type or something like that.

thanks a lot for your help in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/646975.html

Date: 06/26/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, web, google

i already googled this and came up with nothing. i currently have an hp scanjet 4600 scanner on windows xp. i am totally fed up with the crappy software that came with it. it's buggy and works when it wants to and it's way to bloated, etc.

so i was wondering if there was some kind of freeware or open source alternative scanning software. i tried to acquire within photoshop but nothing happened. i downloaded the "driver only" package from the hp website and tried to use that but nothing worked either. i don't need anything complicated, just something where i can select the area of the bed i want to scan, the resolution and maybe the file type or something like that.

thanks a lot for your help in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/941838.html

Date: 06/26/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, browser, security, web

Free web browser - Browsezilla promotes itself as a tool for privacy protection. It is actually a click-fraud engine for pornographic sites, said security vendor Panda Software. Browsezilla claims to help surfers cover their tracks when visiting pornographic sites. It does not use browser history or save data to a cache, and it allows [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-privacy-protection-web-browser-browsezilla-is-click-fraud-engine-for-porn-sites/

Date: 06/28/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Senate committee says that sexually explicit Web sites must be labeled as such--or their operators will go to jail.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6088745.html

Date: 06/27/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

A hearing on protecting children yields a dozen proposed laws including Web blocking, surveillance and "search and destroy bots."

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6088627.html

Date: 06/28/06 (C Sharp)    Keywords: database, web

I need to use a number of DateTimePicker controls on a Windows Forms 2.0 database-linked application that I'm putting together.

The DateTimePicker control doesn't support null values, and despite trying to work around it for many hours and trying numerous 'solutions' found on the web, I'm still no closer to a fix than when I started.

A null value for a date field in the database currently yields a control with todays date entered in.  Whereas it needs to be obvious in the application that no date has yet been entered.

Also, if a record has say a birth date entered in, and then another record is switched to which has a null value for that birth date field, then the birth date field remains unchanged (making it appear that record 2 has the same birth date as record 1, even though in actuality - no birth date has yet been chosen for record 2).

The variety of solutions on the web seem to be pretty much all pre-.Net 2.0, and don't have the desired result on .Net 2.0. 

Can anyone help me out here?  Many thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/68011.html

Date: 06/28/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Founder of Web's top classifieds site is taking fire from numerous critics, and the traditionally benevolent innovator is getting feisty.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6088810.html

Date: 06/28/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, google

This week, possibly as soon as Wednesday, Google is expected by many to unveil a new Internet payment system. It may start out as an online wallet but could become a PayPal-like infrastructure for payments across the Web, handling everything from skis to music and videos, analysts said Tuesday. As a wallet system, Gbuy would let [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/gbuy-googles-internet-payment-system/

Date: 06/28/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

Surfing the Web on a mobile device may become easier thanks to a new set of standards approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The new set of rules and guidelines specify how Web sites should work and be viewed on portable devices are collectively called - “Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0.” The standards offer [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/w3c-releases-mobile-web-best-practices-guide/

Date: 06/28/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Marketing giant commits $10 million in advertising to the social networking Web site.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6089212.html