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Correcting list indentation issues with Drupal 6.x

These were indentation issues with UL and OL elements that appeared regardless of the active Drupal theme (albeit in slightly different form, depending on the theme).

The basic problem was twofold:

  • Cascaded UL or OL elements as well as their LI sub-elements, all appeared one right under the other, completely unindented
  • All these elements appeared slightly to the left of the left border of the content area

Samsung Soul vs LG Secret

I was recently trying to determine which one is the best mobile phone out of bunch of stylish new phones released in 2008 and 2009 - the phone was to be a gift to my wife. It all came down to a stand-off between two great phones: Samsung Soul and LG Secret. I finally bought Samsung's Soul after considering the following:

Soul beats Secret in:
1. super cool, good looking and functional haptic feedback control screen

softwarepatch.com

www.softwarepatch.com provides an alternative way to download Microsoft patches and free software (what you would find under www.microsoft.com/downloads) without having to visit the www.microsoft.com site. Although you do not visit the microsoft.com site the downloads themselves come directly from microsoft's servers though. Check out the downloads's source url!

Dual Boot + Hard Disk Encryption

My current laptop setup is a dual boot Linux Fedora 10 and Windows Vista Ultimate. I mostly use Linux but having windows comes handy in various situations. The linux-windows dual boot is nothing new; what’s new (for me) however is implementing partition encryption on such a setup. Nothing too tricky but fun to contemplate. Here’s the story off the top of my head.

I first installed Linux (by booting to its installation DVD) having it create its standard hard disk layout. This layout consists of 2 partitions:

Security options in HP Compaq laptop BIOSes

There’s plenty, especially for the latest models with embedded TPM and smart card reader.

Full explanation of these features is here; in case the link is dead, try here. More details here, especially on how these features integrate with HP's Protect Tools software suite

Best free CD/DVD burning software

simply imgburn

XP-PowerToys Image Resizer port to Vista

This very useful tool is here and is working

Microsoft's answer to sourceforge.net

It’s called CodePlex and yes: it is really an open source project community. 

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