InfoEntropy

Damn Google App Engine always wants me to do a software update. There are no options to disable the feature and they update the damn thing just about every day. I found some instructions on how to disable Google’s annoying auto update agent. Go to hell auto-updater!

Long story short — look for this file then delete it.

~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist

If you want to keep the file follow the instruction on the guy’s website.

The google software update agent

I wanted have a HTML table where toggle the visibility of its rows (TR elements) using display:block. This is wrong. You need to use display:table-row.

Without using the table-row property, the TR will not have the proper column widths. This is a problem when using Firefox or other Gecko-based browser.

Improper vs. Improper way to hide or show a TR element using javascript.

Sample Table

<table>

<tr id="showme" style="display:none">
    <td>I am in a row</td>

</tr>

</table>

test = document.getElementById("showme");
test.style.display = ‘block’; //wrong
test.style.display = ‘table-row’; //correct

Wine install fails if you try to install it using MacPorts. To get around this you can install the development version of Wine.

sudo port install wine-devel

People know about the problem and it has been fixed in Wine version 1.1.2. I don’t know when it will get fixed for regular wine. Brief research suggests that it has something to do with iPhone SDK. http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13000

My Mac is 10.5.4 Leopard. I have iPhone SDK.

./crtdll.spec:44: external symbol ‘CRTDLL__basemajor_dll’ is not a function
./crtdll.spec:45: external symbol ‘CRTDLL__baseminor_dll’ is not a function
./crtdll.spec:46: external symbol ‘CRTDLL__baseversion_dll’ is not a function
./crtdll.spec:66: external symbol ‘CRTDLL__cpumode_dll’ is not a function
./crtdll.spec:243: external symbol ‘CRTDLL__osmajor_dll’ is not a function
./crtdll.spec:244: external symbol ‘CRTDLL__osminor_dll’ is not a function
./crtdll.spec:245: external symbol ‘CRTDLL__osmode_dll’ is not a function
./crtdll.spec:247: external symbol ‘CRTDLL__osversion_dll’ is not a function