Try as I might I couldn’t work out how to get it back to 16:9 and couln’t find any settings

Turns out all you need to do is drag the window around resizing it till you get it to click back to the right size

guugh

I’ve got Internet Explorer 9 installed on 64bit Windows 7

One day I fired it up and got some mad message from an American voice whittling on about how to clear the browsing cache. What the hell is this!

‘To clear your cache in Internet Explorer click on the tool in the toolbar….’

Well, to cut a long boring story short, it turned out to be the Google Toolbar prattling on. I couldn’t find the setting in there to stop it interrupting my life so I removed the toolbar

Thanks Google

Sure it’s the job of an adopting sites testing department to make sure the site works. But the minute external dependencies are let straight onto the page all manner of fun can break loose.

Facebook comments currently has an amazingly fun problem in it, which to be honest, I don’t fully understand, and Facebook can pay me if they want me to look at it more.

The Facebook comments Javascript seems to generate a url pattern from deep in it’s bowels which seems to surface itself to users in a way I don’t fully understand, but users are coming into sites which use Facebook comments carrying a wierdy GET parameter

?fb_xd_fragment=

This parameter is truly awesome and powerful, all bow before the power

Here’s an example of how awesome it is, here’s a Techcrunch page without it:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/22/keyboard-pants-with-built-in-mouse-nerd-alert/

And here’s a Techcrunch page with it

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/22/keyboard-pants-with-built-in-mouse-nerd-alert/?fb_xd_fragment=

how cool is that, the argument triggers some kind of screwup which overtakes the page to blank it

Stupid external dependancies are stupid

We’re having a go at popping redirects in at apache level to 301 the argument back to the page, ie, to strip the argument, oh, I also set the parameter to ignore in Google Webmaster Tools.

Facebook also passes another crappy parameter, it’s a ?fb_comment_id she’s not nearly as feisty as fragment, comment should be set to ignore in WMT as well

UPDATE:
I’m seeing some people talking about using parent frame checkers and eval’ing a document.location.replace type mechanism … srsly, do not do this….

UPDATE 6th September 2011:
It looks like there’s been a code push from Facebook which means that the page takeover no longer happens. So it’s just the dupe content generated from the crawl path for the fragment and the comment

UPDATE March 11th 2012:
After a couple of months of it being broken again, it now looks like it’s not broken again? I can’t keep up, but I’m past the point of relying on Facebook to decide whether my site is visible or not. FIX IT, ChannelURL.

By the time you’ve read this it’ll be fixed. Eclipse seems to have an instantiation delay on load up for the SDK, even on an Intel i7 980x…

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After rebuilding a machine, whenever I set the TCP settings, the router IP would be lost. Everything else would retain ok, but the default gateway constantly reset itself to blank.

The fix, after much research was to reset the TCP/IP stuff from a command prompt by typing:

netsh int ip reset

lovely

The ATI Radeon HD is the second GPU to be plumbed into it after an AGP -> PCIe Motherboard type upgrade.

The OS drive was a PATA, which was fine, but after a screwup on another build project, I had a SATA and needed a PATA, so a swapout was required.

The OS HDD swap was easy, using Acronis makes such things a sub 10 minute job if you always keep OS drive backups of your machines.

Turning the machine back on, everything initially seemed fine, but it turned out that there was no sound being delivered through the ATI 5450 HDMI connector to the Television.

After a lot of false starts around the internet during research, what worked for me was turning off the, presumably clashing, motherboard sound driver in BIOS (which is in the southbridge settings).

Disclaimer: BIOS can fuck you over, be careful, and it’s not my fault. Change things one at a time and remember what you did. That shit will bite you.

Good Luck

Like many Windows Users I run a Registry Cleaner / Temp File purger (think CCleaner) tool now and again. It always annoyed me that after running a clean, Chrome seemed to completely lose it’s head with breakages in Javascript and CSS.

YouTube was guaranteed to look completely pants and stop working, for example:

There didn’t seem to be a way to fix it.

I think I’ve worked it out though.

Google Chrome doesn’t seem to use an updating directory listing of it’s cache to see what files are there, it feels like it stores a list. This list can be put out of kilter by deleting it’s cache without telling it.

This means that if a page calls a CSS or JS that the cache list thinks it has (so doesn’t re-download), but in fact the file isn’t there, the site looks broken.

Fix:

I can’t find a way to refresh the cache list against what’s actually in the Chrome cache directory, so the easiest way is to synchronise the cache list to the actual cache by purging it.

Spanner -> Options -> Under the bonnet -> Clear browsing data -> -> clear browsing data.

Everything should be lovely again now.

It does seem this problem sorts itself out in time, I don’t know if that’s possibly to do with cache expiration or something.

Let me know if this helps or if you’ve got a better idea

Memories from it being released were something along the lines of TRON having 4 minutes of CGI adn The Last Starfighter having over 20. So you’d get more state of the art CGI for your quids.

An awesome film, but still not as good as Flight of the Navigator

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