One of the grievances of upgrading to Ubuntu Gutsy was the breaking of VMware. Apparently there isn’t a vmware-server package in Ubuntu Gutsy as opposed to Feisty. A quick download and compile of vmware-server 1.04 from VMware.com and VMware-server was back in a breeze. On the other hand, booting into my disk partition was an absolute pain in the ass.
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Rebate Heaven is an interesting site that claims to provide rebates on certain stuff or services that was purchased online. The have got a comprehensive list of promos of which I have applied for a rebate on my webhosting package in July. They claim to take approximately 60-90 days to process the rebate. I’ve emailed them and have not heard back from them for over a week.
I originally started writing this article because I thought that I was conned by them cos my rebate never arrived. Moreover, Google wasn’t much helpful in telling me if it was for real or a rip off.
One of the biggest grief in web development is fixing these minor quirks between Internet Explorer and Mozilla based browsers like Firefox. Microsoft then makes it more difficult with more quirks between IE5, IE6 and IE7. To give Microsoft some credit, they seem to have genuinely tried to make IE7 more standards compliant than its predecessors. Just yesterday, Conditional Comments placed in my code for adding addition JavaScript code to fix IE quirks gave me some grief. Let me explain further…
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Brinley Ang is a sysadmin, web dev, coder, geek boy, jedi knight fragger, caffine addict, deaf meloncholic and rockstar wannabe. Listens to the sex pistols and a wide assortment of heavy metal.
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