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This is the archive for July 2005

QuirksMode

"QuirksMode.org is the personal and professional site of Peter-Paul Koch, freelance web developer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains more than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities.
It is free of charge and ads, and largely free of copyrights."

QuirksMode

Position Is Everything

Modern browser bugs explained in detail!

"We're Big John and Holly Bergevin, and together we built this site to explain some obtuse CSS bugs in modern browsers, provide demo examples of interesting CSS behaviors, and show how to 'make it work' without using tables for layout purposes."

Position Is Everything

How to Register an ActiveX Object as the Player for a Media Type

"This topic describes how to register a Microsoft ActiveX object as the viewer or player for a particular media type (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)). This registration is essential for Microsoft Internet Explorer to launch the correct player when interpreting the standard HTML A HREF tag or the Netscape-introduced EMBED tag. Without this registration, it is impossible for Internet Explorer to guess what application to use to display or play an unknown media file. The registration process associates an ActiveX object with a given MIME type or file-name extension so that Internet Explorer or any other ActiveX control container can launch the correct player for files of that type. Internet Explorer first tries to find a match for the correct media type; if that is not possible, it uses the file-name extension."

How to Register an ActiveX Object as the Player for a Media Type

Installed Network Storage

I just bought a 80GB FreeCom Classic SL Network Drive. I will use this unit for backup purpose outside of the my computers through Ethernet. I may also consider to share music for streaming from a stand-alone media player unit without having to have my computer running.

After installing the driver, the new disk appears as a normal drive under Windows XP. My first mod was to replace the original 80GB Hitatchi Desktar disk by a more confortable 200GB Maxtor DiamondMax. For those interested, you need to break the warranty seal and remove two pads under the unit to be able to replace the disk. After rebooting, my new drive is working perfectly. Nice to known, in case of problem in the future.

[Update]
Done more search on Google, seems the unit will not be able to stream audio content directly to a standalone player. NDAS requires to have appropriate drivers on the machine to be read from, too bad. So it will just do as backup system then.