Goodies To Go! Newsletter #372
Featured this week:
* Q & A Goodies
* News Goodies
* Feedback Goodies
* Windows Tech Goodie of the Week
* And Remember This...
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Questions are taken from submissions to our Community
Mentors. You can ask a Mentor a question by going to
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/mentors/
<style type="text/css">
a.one:link {color: #000000}
a.two:link {color: #FF0000}
</style>
Place the style between the <HEAD> tags. Now apply the class to the actual links in your HTML like this:
<a class="one" href="default.html">This link will be black.</a>
<a class="two" href="default.html">This link will be red.</a>
[You might also check out the lead piece in this issue:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/letters/232.html -Ed.]
<body onClick="window.close()">
This will only work if the window was opened using the JavaScript window.open command.
<select name="sel" style="width:80;color:red;background-color:yellow">
<option value="yes">Yes</option
<option value="no">No</option
</select>
This example would limit the select (dropdown) to 80 pixels, the text will be red and the background color of the select will be yellow.
body {
background-image : url(image.jpg);
background-position : center center;
background-repeat : no-repeat;
}
<body>
<table height="100%" width="100%">
<tr><td valign="center" align="center">
<table height="__" width="__" background="image.jpg">
Any text on the background
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
Discussion Goodies
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http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=91421
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=91424
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=91350
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=91427
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=91429
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[January 17, 2006] After a breakout year for continuous data protection technology, we examine the different players and approaches and look at what the future may hold.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3577931
New Linux Kernel Patched
[January 17, 2006] The first Linux kernel of the year gets a point upgrade as work continues on the next version.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3577946
Google Tries Radio For Revenue
[January 17, 2006] The search giant purchases dMarc to explore another media source.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3577856
Microsoft Collab Tool Could Woo IBM Set
[January 17, 2006] The software giant is looking to be a thorn in Big Blue's side ahead of next week's Lotusphere event.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3577786
Cuban All For Multi-Tiered Internet
[January 17, 2006] Without tiered service levels, Mark Cuban says, broadband Internet will not reach its full potential.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3577896
GPL 3 Draft Released
[January 17, 2006] New license takes aim at Patents and DRM.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3577701
Xilinx's Digital Signal Score
[January 17, 2006] The company buys AccelChip for DSP boost.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3577796
Analysts See Big Year for Grid
[January 17, 2006] The coming year will be an important one for grid computing, according to a report by The 451 Group.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3577831
Online Shopping Boosted By Security Confidence
[January 16, 2006] Consumers report high confidence in software and services that thwart online bad actors.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3577631
Coffee, Tea or Broadband?
[January 13, 2006] FCC sets May spectrum auction date for airline broadband service.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3577531
Feedback Goodies
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If you would like to comment on the newsletter or expand/improve on something you have seen in here, you can now send your input to:
Windows Tech Goodie of the Week
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Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET 2.0: Data Source Control Basics
In this article series we'll examine the five built-in data source controls in
detail. This first part, however, examines the concepts shared among all five
data source controls and how ASP.NET 2.0's data Web controls work with their
associated data source controls at runtime. Read on to learn more!
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/011106-1.aspx
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Bracket Your [Table Names] for Access via OLE DB
Having trouble switching from ODBC to OLE DB for your Access database queries?
Getting weird and unhelpful errors? This little tip might just be the solution.
http://www.asp101.com/tips/index.asp?id=129
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Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, & BizTalk Server 2006
Launch Event When I first heard that Microsoft was planning a series of events
to celebrate the launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk
Server 2006, I was all excited. It was late October and I knew that the products
were due to ship any day. I'd be one of the first people to see all this great
new technology and I'd finally get my hands on the actual release versions... or
so I thought.
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/060112.htm
And Remember This ...
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1966 The US Lost a Nuclear Bomb in Spain
For many years during the cold war, the US flew B-52 bombers carrying nuclear
weapons around the globe all the time. With this number of flights accidents
will inevitably happen. The Pentagon has admitted to more than three dozen
accidents with these planes in which nuclear contamination occurred or weapons
were lost. In 1966 one such "Broken Arrow" incident received world wide press
attention when a B-52 collided with a KC-135 tanker over Palomares, Spain. The
B-52, which was attempting to re-fuel, hit the fuel boom of the tanker, tearing
the fuselage of the bomber open and igniting the fuel. The KC-135 exploded,
killing all four of its crew members. The crew of the B-52 baled out and
parachuted to safety. The plane went down near Palomares. The bombs on board at
the time were not armed, but the explosive material in two of them did explode
on impact, cratering the fields and spreading radio-active Plutonium over the
area. 2,000 personnel were involved in the clean-up, during which 1,400 tons of
contaminated soil were shipped to the US for disposal. The US settled some 500
claims for damage to health by local residents. A third bomb was recovered
intact from a dry river bed nearby, but a fourth was lost at sea. A massive
search effort continued until the bomb was spotted by a submarine on April 7.
The US does not disclose information concerning nuclear accidents for security
reasons, and people may have been unknowingly exposed to radiation resulting
from such accidents. Today there are two H-Bombs and one Uranium core lost
somewhere in Wassaw Sound off Georgia (US), in the Puget Sound in Washington
state and in the swamplands near Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Today was also the day that in: 1861 patent for a flush toilet with a
water tank and pull chain granted to Mr. Thomas Crapper; 1871 patent
granted for a cable car (first went into service in 1873); 1926 George
Burns married Gracie Allen; 1928 patent granted for a fully automatic
film developing machine; 1929 Popeye made his first appearance; in the
cartoon "Thimble Theatre"; 1946 the first meeting of the United Nations
Security Council was held; 1969 the Beatles released Yellow Submarine in
the UK; 1969 Led Zeppelin's debut album was released in the US; 1987
President Reagan signed a secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran;
1989 a gunman opened fire in a schoolyard in California, killing five
children and wounding thirty; 1994 a 6,6 earthquake hit Los Angeles,
killing 60 and causing $30B in damage; 1995 a 7.2 earthquake hit Kobe,
Japan, killing 5,372; 1998 Paula Jones filed sexual harassment charges
against President Clinton;
Born today were: in 1706 statesman Benjamin Franklin; 1820 English
novelist Ann Bronte; 1880 movie creator Mack Sennett (Keystone Kops);
1899 novelist Nevil Shute; 1899 gangster Al Capone; 1922
actress Betty White; 1925 actor Rock Hudson; 1927 singer Eartha
Kitt; 1928 English hairstylist Vidal Sassoon; 1931 actor James
Earl Jones; 1934 ventriloquist Shari Lewis; 1939 TV personality
Maury Povich; 1942 boxer Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay); 1949
comedian Andy Kaufman; 1956 actor David Caruso; 1962 Canadian
actor/comedian Jim Carey;
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