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Full Width Tables in IE6
Quick Overview Internet Explorer 6.0 (and possibly earlier) has a buggy CSS interperter. The biggest problem is the broken "box model", which is documented in enough other places. However, one other major problem is that tables do not inherit div‘s width. Thus, in my page, which has a left sidebar, if I declare a <table […]
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Hiding E-Mail addresses with JavaScript
Quick Overview Many people put a link on their homepage to email them directly. This is done using a link with the form mailto:address@domain.com. The problem is that many spambots pick up on this sort of thing. This document will show how to hide an email from spambots, while displaying it to a user How […]
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XHTML Compatible Image Flip
Quick Overview Many sites nowadays (this one included) use an image flip for links. That is, an image displays one thing before it’s clicked, and a different image when the mouse is hovering over it. The classic implementation is not valid XHTML 1.1, however, as it uses depreciated JavaScript. Here’s how to do it properly. […]
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SSH Keys, the Easy Way
Quick Overview You should be familiar with the basics of public key authentication for ssh. Implementing it is actually pretty easy, and remarkably useful. However, connecting between OpenSSH servers (linux) and commercial SSH2 (not the SSH2 protocol, but the ssh2 program) servers (like the one on many older solaris machines) can be quirky. So we’ll […]
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Single User Mode in Linux
Quick Overview By default, Linux does not password protect the booting into Single User mode. This can be helpful (if you forget the root password, you can boot to single user, change the password, and restart) and dangerous (so can anyone with physical access to the machine. Read below to see how to use this, […]