The morning that Kevin Rudd lost his leadership to fellow party member Julia Gillard has reportedly caused the largest news related traffic spike ever.
I noticed a number of news sites were having trouble handling the load presenting users with server errors and time out messages.
One major news site also apparently got 3 days worth of traffic in a number of hours.

This just another in the long list of records broken on a single day.

A simple method for centering divs that I usually use is:

The CSS

#content {
   width: 800px;
   margin: 0 auto;
}

The HTML

 something here 

What this does is creates a div 800 pixels wide then sets the top and bottom to 0 pixels then sets the left and right margins to be auto. This makes the browser give the div equal spacing on either side.

This should work in all major browsers including IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

Mac OS comes with in built short cut keys similar to the Windows Print Screen button system.
Its a bit harder to use but a lot more flexible.

There are 3 different types of screenshots you can take using the shortcuts.

1. Capture the entire desktop

Apple ( Command ) Key + Shift + 3

2. Use your mouse to select a region of your desktop

Apple ( Command ) Key + Shift + 4

Follow this key combination by selecting the region you wish to capture with your mouse

3. Capture a specific window

Apple ( Command ) Key + Shift + 4 followed by Spacebar then use your mouse to select the window to capture

All these commands save the screenshots do your desktop with the current date and time
eg Screen shot 2010-03-15 at 5.20.33 AM.png

I started using TweetDeck recently. It seems to work rather well but there were a couple problems after the installation on my 64bit Ubuntu system.

I was getting the following error when running from the command line

Error loading the runtime (libadobecertstore.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

To fix this error you should just need copy the libadobecrtstore.so to the lib32 directory

$ sudo cp /usr/lib/libadobecertstore.so /usr/lib32

If you still get other problems you may also need to install a couple other libs.

The best way to do this is to use a package called getlibs. This system automatically resolves 32bit lib problems on 64bit systems.

You can download the deb package from http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb

Then run the following command to download and install all the libs

$ sudo getlibs -l libnss3.so.1d libnssutil3.so.1d libsmime3.so.1d libssl3.so.1d \
libnspr4.so.0d libplc4.so.0d libplds4.so.0d libgnome-keyring.so \
libgnome-keyring.so.0 libgnome-keyring.so.0.1.1

TweetDeck should now be ready to go.

I have been emailed by a few people to post some of my old articles on my site again.

One concern I do have though is that some are nearly 10 years old so I want to say, I will post them but a lot of the information may not be relivant anymore and there are probably new and better ways of doing things.
Also I will not be editing these at all, they will just go up as I find them. I seem to recall there were a few corrections that were made on the live site. These will not be included as I only have the original Word Documents.

That said, there still seems to be interest so I will attempt to get them up over the coming days.

I know Windows Vista is older now and Windows 7 is supposed to fix problems that Vista had. But Vista has left a sour taste in my mouth I can't get rid of.
When Windows Vista came out I rushed off to the store on launch day to get myself a copy.

From memory it was about AU$320 for Ultimate.

I got home and installed it. There were a few problems at first, somethings didn't work but overall I was happy with the installation experience.

As I started using the system things started annoying me. A few days later the system died forcing me to re-install.
I re-installed, the same annoying problems came up and the system was just not performing like you would expect with a brand new top of the line custom built box.

After a few months I got sick of the problems and went with Ubuntu. Best thing I have ever done.

On my Ubuntu box I setup Windows Vista in a Virtual Machine and ran it in seamless mode. It worked well for what I needed it for.

A few days ago I needed Windows Vista again so I went with a Virtual Box install.

Windows installed fine, then complained that I had already activated so it wouldn't let me do it online.
I called the number provided, typed in all the numbers then it said I have activated my copy 3 times so I couldn't do it via the phone system. Hang on, what, wait? My full version $320 copy is only allowed to be activated 3 times?
I got transferred through to a person where she asked a few questions and confirmed my number. Then she gave me the confirmation code which activated it. So it wasn't too bad. But still annoying.

The system was up running for a few days when the system suddenly popped up saying it detected a hardware change and was deactivating itself. Wtf??

I hit activate again, it ran through and reactivated the copy.

With Microsoft software it just feels like you have to try so hard to prove who you are even though you have done the right thing. Even though I could go out, get a pirate copy and not have to suffere any of these activation or licensing issues. As a programmer though, I won't pirate software, so I am stuck suffering.

This brings me to Linux and Mac OS X which I have never had problems with activation