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Links - 07/25/05

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Multibooting Intel based Macs: Step by step guide to installing OSX, Windows XP, and CentOS (linux). Replace CentOS with Gentoo and I’d be a very happy geek.
C Programmer Comic: I can’t believe I laughed at that.

IE7 beta Coming Soon?

Monday, July 25th, 2005

This is good news. IE6 has been a horrible browser since it came out. I can only hope that IE7 has a better handle on CSS and security.
Then again, why are people still using IE? Firefox and Opera are both much better alternatives.

CSS Context Sensitive Menus

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

While converting my site from Wordpress version 1.2 to 1.5, I ran into a problem with getting the navigation to properly inform the user where they are. Luckily, a recent post at Web-Graphics provided a quick solution.
wg:CSS context sensitive menus in WordPress

HOWTO: Apache Virtual Hosts

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

Following a read of an old Mezzoblue article, I decided it was time to have a similar setup on my Gentoo box. Here’s how I did it.

Installing Apache
I won’t go into this as each distribution of linux is different. I will say that I used the most recent stable release (2.0.54-r8) of apache2 […]

Favorite Firefox Extensions

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

In case you have been living in a hole for the past couple of years, I just wanted to let you know that there are better browsers on the market than IE. The most popular alternative is the offering from the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is years ahead in technology and offers the rather […]