JIRA: Linking to local file under Firefox
July 23, 2008
Very helpful article from Atlassian…
Wiki markup allows you to links to files on the network / server with the format:
[file:///c:/temp/foo.txt]This works fine under Internet Explorer, but Firefox and Mozilla block links to local files for security purposes. If you are happy with the risk of linking to local content, you can override the security policy and also enable linking in Firefox
The instructions for this can be found at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don’t_work and you may also want to check out the other network preferences.
Please note that you need to use full URL syntax for your link (from http://kb.mozillazine.org)
You also need to use proper URI syntax for local file references. It is not proper to enter an operating-system-specific path, such as c:\subdir\file.ext without converting it to a URI, which in this case would be file:///c:/subdir/file.ext. In general, a file path is converted to a URI by adding the scheme identifier file:, then three forward slashes (representing an empty authority or host segment), then the path with all backslashes converted to forward slashes.
(via confluence.atlassian.com)
Fun With Color Profiles!
July 23, 2008
Fun With Color Profiles!, originally uploaded by William WM.
Ugh. All this time, I had a faulty color profile (http://blog.wolffmyren.com/2008/07/23/ick-color-profile-fail/), so everything looked much different online to everyone (color-wise) than it did to me, on my laptop. This is what I thought the last image looked like… (see my Flickr stream for the picture I’m referring to)
Great article from The Register…
Billionaire, cosmonaut and founder of the fast-growing Ubuntu Linux distro Mark Shuttleworth dreams impossible dreams.
No, not a return to the stars. He believes in something that’s far harder for mortal open source engineers to achieve.
That dream? To produce a desktop more beautiful to ordinary users than legions of Apple programmers supping on the milk of chief exec Steve Jobs’ alleged brilliance are capable of producing. That includes a desktop not funded by a clutter of annoying banner or Flash-based ads, but paid for by subscription-based services.
Now you’re done dreaming, go home and code for the victory.
In a Tuesday evening O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) keynote, Shuttleworth called on delegates to make a concerted effort not just to catch Apple but to overtake the company in the quality of the desktop experience they deliver users.
(continued here: Ubuntu man challenges open source to out-pretty Apple)
ICK! Color Profile FAIL!
July 23, 2008
Update: Here’s the link to the Samsung 225BW driver and color profile:
Samsung 225BW Driver
I’ve been having ridiculous problems with the color profiles on my Samsung SyncMaster 225BW. I’m pretty sure that it’s not Samsung’s fault, since the monitor is by far the best I’ve ever had, but any color-profile aware application ends up looking like crap (see screenshot above, or this blog post).
Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to get the original CD/software for the monitor if you’ve lost it, but it seems that the best workaround for this is to remove the existing (faulty) color profile and replace it with a working color profile, such as one from Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/iccprofiles/icc_eula_win_end.html
To do this:
- Download the Adobe ICC Windows Color Profile from this link:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/iccprofiles/icc_eula_win_end.html - Unzip the archive and navigate to the folder “RGB Profiles”
- Right click on “AdobeRGB1998.icc” and choose “Install Profile”
- To ensure that the profile is enabled, right click on the desktop, choose “Properties”, click the “Settings” tab, then the “Advanced…” button.
- Once in the Advanced Properties, click the “Color Management” tab.
- Remove any existing profile by clicking remove, then click “Add…” and choose “AdobeRGB1998.icc” from the folder displayed and click “Add”
- Click “Set as Default”, OK, then OK again to close the window.
- Then restart Windows.
For reference, your color profile dialog should look like this:
Hope this helps!
Rotten Tomatoes: Inside Pixar
July 23, 2008
Wouldn’t you love to have a cube/office like this?
The animation department which, as we visit, is already hard at work on Toy Story 3, Up, and a handful of other Pixar projects, is a hive of self-expression; this employee, for example, is working out of a garden shed.
(continued at Rotten Tomatoes)
![pdx [portland]](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1046/3168818707_570cff7348_t.jpg "pdx [portland]")
