http://babbacom.com Notes and Rants from a Small House of Software Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:24:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've finally managed to track down and solve a problem that has been driving me batty for months. My main machine runs Windows XP. I run VMware Workstation on it and use virtual machines for development and testing. The problem I have had for about a year now is a tendency ... http://babbacom.com/?p=30 I've just run into a problem with laying a page containing a textarea. I set it up using a Firefox window with a 1024*768 client area on Windows XP, but when I looked at it on Linux (Centos) the rest of the page ran off the bottom, even though everything should ... http://babbacom.com/?p=26 The other serious problem I had with Hardy Heron was getting Suspend and Resume to work with my newer laptop (a Sony Vaio VGN-CR19VN). It works OK on the old laptop, but the new one didn't want to know. Whenever I tried it it would just clear the screen, go ... http://babbacom.com/?p=20 When Ubuntu 8.04, otherwise known as Hardy Heron, was first released I tried installing it on both my laptops. My older laptop (a Sony Vaio PCG-Z600HEK) had the previous release, Gutsy Gibbon, on it. That had worked with no problems at all, so I wasn't anticipating any with the new ... http://babbacom.com/?p=9