Posts by Doddy

UK IT should 'fire men first', says Kate Craig-Wood

Good luck with that

Wouldn't that be a clear case of sexual discrimination? And yes, it does work both ways.

Google's email service goes down

Only the web interface is down

Looks like it's just the web interface that's down. I'm still getting mail ok via POP3 on Mail.app, so it should be fine for anyone using GMail through a local mail app.

Microsoft disables automatic IE 8 downloads

Why the delay?

I, for one, welcome our new standards-compliant overlords. For once, I can code a website with W3C standards in mind, and have it work in Safari, Firefox, Opera and IE, instead of having it work in three browsers and going completely belly-up in IE.

As for detecting browsers, that's exactly what I've done for my latest project. Anyone using a standards-compliant browser sees the normal site. Using IE6 or IE7 redirects to an ASCII-only site with a layout and feel similar to an IBM 5150, no hyperlinks, forcing users to press keys to navigate between pages. Wanted to try it in the style of old text adventures, but that would have required too much effort and too many pints of Guiness.

Angelic Bill, because hey, who'd have ever though that IE would even be slightly standards-compliant some day?

Applers howl over Mac OS fix

No problems on either side

Running a mid-07 Macbook, and nether Patch Tuesday on the XP partition or this update did anything odd. I don't see what all the fuss is about.

While we're on the subject of things going belly-up, is it worth opening up Time Machine's "hidden" feature allowing backup to NAS drives, or should I stay tethered via USB?