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Web server question. Can I combine htaccess and session variables from other systems? (more inside)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 10:03 AM on July 23, 2008
(6 comments)
SQL SERVER - I'm not a SQL script guy, but I've got a SQL script problem.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 7:20 AM on September 17, 2007
(6 comments)
Where can I find hi-res images of George W Bush--especially candid pics? I've checked all the usual places (google images, whitehouse.gov, etc). I'd even pay a few bucks if necessary.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 8:28 AM on August 8, 2007
(6 comments)
Suppose you have a terminal illness, and only have a few months to live. What's to keep you from running up huge credit card bills. Can the creditors make the next of kin pay up?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 9:33 AM on July 17, 2006
(31 comments)
While searching the usual poster sites to fill my bare walls, I came across
this striking image, which is identified only as "Russian Film Poster". Can anyone identify the film? I'd like to see the movie before I go slapping its poster up on my wall.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 9:08 AM on April 27, 2006
(6 comments)
Is there a name for the eight-pointed star
pictured here?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 8:15 AM on July 27, 2005
(10 comments)
HTML's <input type="file"> allows you browse to a directory and select a file. Suppose I want to capture the directory path, not a file contained therein? Is it possible to browse to C:\Documents\Workstuff and capture *not* a file in that directory, but the directory path itself? Know what I mean?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 8:13 AM on July 20, 2005
(6 comments)
CSS with dynamic content. I'm trying to create a web page using CSS and text pulled from a database, so that it looks like this:
http://www.blogfucker.com/junk/css_help.gif. "Image 2" is simply floated left. Very simple to do with static content. But this is for a client who will only be able to edit the text, which will be entered as a single block of text. How do I throw a floated image in there so it shows up roughly in the middle of the page? I've considered writing a script to count the number of paragraphs (or even characters) and dividing by two, and throwing it in that way. But I feel there must be a simpler way.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 11:28 AM on June 28, 2005
(2 comments)
I'm developing a form Adobe Acrobat which, when submitting, calls a php script, which performs an INSERT into a MySQL database, then comes back with a "Thank you" web page. The script is called just fine and the INSERT works, but the browser hangs on the Thank You page. [more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 12:25 PM on January 6, 2005
(4 comments)
I've got a twelve-year-old boy in my life whom I'd love to coax into a new hobby. He currently only enjoys video games and collecting Hot Wheels cars. I've considered things like r/c aircraft or rocket building, but either my budget or his mother won't allow it. I want him to learn to use his hands, and maybe get outside a little bit. Any suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 11:34 AM on December 7, 2004
(50 comments)
Diagnosis via press release.
Josh Marshall speculates on Dick Cheney's health based on a press release put out by a shoe store. The store says Cheney's feet have "changed to a size 10EEE". Swelling of the feet is a primary symptom of congestive heart failure.
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 2:26 PM on December 2, 2004
(33 comments)
Can we close the door now? I'm genuinely happy to have some new blood, but here's the problem. Pretty much everyone who's been reading the site with their noses against the glass has been let in. Hereafter, we're going to get a bunch of
folks who happen to be wandering by, and know nothing of how things are done around here. (I don't know if that's the case with notmtwain, I'm only using his/her post as an example because it glares so.) We can always open it up again later, but can we have a moratorium on new users? Just for now? Please?
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos
at 8:01 AM on December 1, 2004
(129 comments)
The Chilling Effect.
Some ABC affiliates have opted not to broadcast a scheduled airing of
Saving Private Ryan, due to concerns over new FCC indecency regulations. They don't want to get fined. The FCC won't say in advance whether the film is indecent ("that would be censorship"). But don't worry, the
Parents Televsion Council says the "context" makes it OK. Which is fine, but who utlimately gets to judge the context?
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 11:46 AM on November 11, 2004
(75 comments)
"The president was cautious the president was prudent the president did what a commander in chief should do. No matter how you try to blame it on the president the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?" Rudy Giuliani
blames the troops for the current missing explosives scandal. (
340K wmv file). Can we finally stop talking about this hack as a viable candidate for national office?
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 8:44 AM on October 28, 2004
(31 comments)
I just watched
Olivier's version of Richard III twice and I still can't figure out why, during the Battle of Bosworth Field, while Richard and Richmond's forces are engaged in hand-to-hand combat, they suddenly stop fighting, let out a cheer, and embrace each other. I can't seem to google anything about it. What's the dilly-o?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 8:59 AM on October 10, 2004
(3 comments)
Note: I'm asking the following on behalf of a friend...
How do you confront your SO about trolling for sex on the internet?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 11:49 AM on October 4, 2004
(38 comments)
Suppose, hypothetically, that I were considering a move to Toronto, Ontario. I've never been there. Can someone give a quick rundown of the city and its neighborhoods? Where should a 30-something single professional from the Boston suburbs look for a nice two-bedroom condo?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 9:01 AM on September 28, 2004
(12 comments)
Baseball Physics: Baseball announcers like to talk about how a sharply hit ground ball can "pick up speed" when it bounces off the infield grass (or, more often, turf). Is this possible?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 11:38 AM on August 17, 2004
(19 comments)
I think I'm learning Japanese, I really think so... How do I proceed?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 9:43 AM on July 13, 2004
(15 comments)
Meet the new Walkman.
20GB HD, 25 minutes of cache for skip-free playing. Works with Sony's
Connect music service. Sharp-looking little player.
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 7:02 AM on July 1, 2004
(48 comments)
Not-in-the-NewsFilter
"Is Mr. Ashcroft neglecting real threats to the public because of his ideological biases?" Paul Krugman on the case of William Krar, a terrorist the justice department isn't talking about.
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 10:36 AM on June 22, 2004
(32 comments)
I'd like to remind everyone that we have some new users, and we really ought to encourage them as much as possible. While I agree entirely with the
Q-man's sentiment, name-calling is counterproductive to the site, especially when it's a user's first FPP.
This isn't so much a call-out on quonsar, but a reminder that discouraging the new users is detrimental to the health of the site.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos
at 8:22 AM on April 29, 2004
(93 comments)
My cat won't pee in the box.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 12:04 PM on April 20, 2004
(24 comments)
Mysterious Fax Adds to Intrigue Over the Medicare Bill's Cost
"Late one Friday afternoon in January, after the House of Representatives had adjourned for the week, Cybele Bjorklund, a House Democratic health policy aide, heard the buzz of the fax machine at her desk. Coming over the transom, with no hint of the sender, was a document she had been seeking for months: an estimate by Medicare's chief actuary showing the cost of prescription drug benefits for the elderly....
"Ms. Bjorklund had been pressing Mr. Foster for his numbers since June. When he refused, telling her he could be fired, she said, she confronted his boss, Thomas A. Scully, then the Medicare administrator. 'If Rick Foster gives that to you," Ms. Bjorklund remembered Mr. Scully telling her, "I'll fire him so fast his head will spin.'"
(NYTimes.com, reg req)
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 7:17 AM on March 19, 2004
(5 comments)
Why aren't animals solar-powered? [more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 7:49 AM on March 12, 2004
(31 comments)
I'd like to declare a moratorium on comparing things to
the Onion, as well as nominations for the Darwin Award. [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos
at 6:04 AM on February 27, 2004
(38 comments)
POWER RANGERS:
Did the Bush Administration create a new American empire—or weaken the old one?
The left's favorite blogger,
Talking Points Memo's Joshua Michah Marshall has been published in this week's
New Yorker.
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 6:57 AM on January 26, 2004
(29 comments)
Lately, I've been getting a lot of ambient hiss in the headphones I use with my PC.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 5:39 PM on January 14, 2004
(6 comments)
What is the origin of the
1. Do one thing
2. Do another thing
3. ??????
4. Profit!
meme?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 3:11 PM on January 13, 2004
(6 comments)
What windows (2K) software do you prefer to rip CDs to mp3? (Aside from iTunes, which I had to uninstall after it totally hosed my machine.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 8:04 AM on January 12, 2004
(10 comments)
I'm considering upgrading the processor (and possibly the motherboard) on an older PC. Am I going to have to reformat the HD? Obviously, I'll back up all the data just in case, but I was under the impression that the OS would just find the new hardware upon booting up for the first time. The 14 year-old at the local CompUSA claims otherwise--that I'll have to rebuild the OS once I put the new processor in place. So which is it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jpoulos
at 11:57 AM on December 30, 2003
(8 comments)
Top Court Rejects Baby Death Conviction Appeal
"The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday an appeal by a South Carolina woman convicted of homicide and sentenced to 12 years in prison for causing her baby to be stillborn by using cocaine."
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 9:50 AM on October 6, 2003
(47 comments)
Build your own Howard Dean website!
The Dean campaign has released web site "kits" under the GNU GPL and based on the
Drupal codebase, which allow web-based communities to quickly and easily build their own sites to support Dean's campaign. Last night, he
held a conference call with over 3,500 "house parties" and individuals to spread the word. If Dean gets the nomination, he'll have technology to thank for it.
(yeah, via slashdot.)
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 1:32 PM on September 30, 2003
(28 comments)
EPA misled public on 9/11 pollution
"In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to give the public misleading information, telling New Yorkers it was safe to breathe when reliable information on air quality was not available."
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 9:27 AM on August 23, 2003
(17 comments)
I think it's fantastic that our email addresses are now shielded from non-members, but that still means that 13,000 people are free to send anonymous flames to any member--or to sign them up for spam. How about this: Instead of the profile page displaying the email address, it shows an email form. One would have to be logged in to use it, the sender's username would show up in the email, and the recipient's address would remain hidden.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos
at 8:33 AM on April 26, 2002
(26 comments)
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Why do black folks seem to always order red or orange soft drinks?
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Why do men have nipples?
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Why do Indian woman have a red dot on their forehead?
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In Jewish dietary laws...can fish and milk be mixed, i.e. cod in cheese sauce?
The
Y?Forum, the National Forum on People's Differences. The Y?Forum "gives you a way to ask people from other ethnic or cultural backgrounds the questions you've always been too embarrassed or uncomfortable to ask them." Some of the topics discussed: Differences between people of different age, class, gender, geography, occupation, race, religion, sexual orientation.
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 7:59 AM on February 14, 2002
(78 comments)
I love, love, love, love,
love this post. Love.
With so much trash-talk being thrown around this site recently, I just wanted to point out something good. Thanks, y2karl.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos
at 7:54 PM on January 25, 2002
(5 comments)
"Enrongate" in a nutshell.
Our own
Oliver Willis has compiled a very thorough catalogue of clips from the Enron scandal, dating all the way back to April 2000. If you haven't been following all along, it's a great resource to catch up.
posted to MetaFilter by jpoulos
at 9:20 AM on January 13, 2002
(34 comments)
