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Browser Incompatible?

I'm using Galeon here and it based on the Mozilla technology (Gecko). It should render any Mozilla capable websites. Apparently, Yahoo! Mail playing smart by not detecting my browser as one of her compliant browser. Ouch! Galeon is based on the Gecko. So, you know that it should be functioning well on Yahoo! Mail system. For browser based detection, why not checking by calling any ECMA's Javascript version specific functions? Or, if you want a concise, why not calling all the functional call that your script runs and depend on? Well, as any rant out there (pissing someone mode on), I'm just saying: Don't use YUI, just use jQuery.

What They Are Lacking

This post is a rant, so please don't read if you dislike ranting. :D The original idea of education is supposed to be challenging people to achieve new knowledge.  The goal of education institution are providing an environment where those people can be challenged well and having the necessary materials for them available. The materials should not be in the complete shave, it may be raws, and at some points it making the person improvised. Am I right? When challenged well, a person can develop their imagination into many recurring steps and building knowledge over it to overcome common obsticles and infer new one. The person build knowledge blocks and from the existing blocks, another block is created. The beauty of education is the process of founding the right formula to have that process of creation. The reason of formal education is to provide the right formula for such thinking process. That's why formal education endorsed inductive reasoning. The basic of this inductive re...

Taking Back Console

Having tired of the bling-bling and the mouse? Just wanna the good ol' days? Or, you just like me, need the eye-friendly green and black? Oh, yeah, for you whom just left out in a console with no gui to play with. You need to go to your terminal. Pretty BASH You can make a pretty BASH and make your console a powerful one. Don't forget to put these on the .bashrc (debian users default is on, root not): . /etc/bash_completion Create a pretty BASH from *nix-style: export black="\[\033[0;38;5;0m\]" export red="\[\033[0;38;5;1m\]" export green="\[\033[0;38;5;2m\]" export yellow="\[\03...