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Internet

Comcast adding caps

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. According to DSLReports, Comcast is instituting a cap on its broadband customers. The cap will be 250GB a month, with one “freebie” month, where you can go over this amount without repercussion. As caps go, this is one of the more reasonable. However, I expect to see other broadband companies following […]

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Technology Web

How to Install IE8 beta 2: First, find chicken to sacrifice, wait till midnight

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have Windows XP SP3 installed on my Dell I was therefore more than a little taken back about the instructions to follow to install IE8 beta 2: Uninstall Windows XP SP3 Uninstall IE8 Beta1 Re- install Windows XP SP3 Install IE8 Beta2 If you don’t follow this path, you’ll have […]

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Technology

The Banana Test

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From Chip’s Quips a test to see your programming language preference: Here’s a quick and easy test to determine what programming language best suits your personality. There’s a very tall palm tree, and four animals happen to pass by: a chimpanzee, a lion, a giraffe, and a squirrel. They decide to have […]

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SVG

Planet SVG

I was asked for links to SVG resources, and my immediate thought was to look for a Planet SVG. Though I found a planetsvg.com, there’s no entry at the site, and I couldn’t find any elsewhere. I then decided to create a new Planet SVG, using Sam Ruby’s Venus adaption of the Planet software. Of course, […]

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Graphics/CSS JavaScript SVG

Cross-browser JavaScript vector graphics library

Speaking of SVG, Lachlan Hardy pointed out the Raphaël JavaScript library to me, and I wanted to pass it along. This library provides cross-browser dynamic vector graphics that generates VML for IE, and SVG for the rest of the world. Among the graphical elements you can create are paths, eclipses, rectangles, circles, and text, and be able to apply […]