Recent content by tench

mikuro, you rock my world! thank you so much for your explanation. you make regex sound beautiful! :) all best, tench

i have an xml segment which looks like this: <s xml:id="X">Some text.</s><s xml:id="Y">Some other text.</s><s xml:id="Z">Some other text.</s> I am new to regular expressions, but I would like to match the text between s tags. I've tried with: (<s.+>).+</s> which is a good...

i don't know what i'm going wrong -- my code works in safari, but not in firefox. i was wondering if someobdy could help me track down the problem. i have a function which ought to split normal clicks from alt-clicks.. and process them differently. fine. so i have something like <a...

thanks guys. i was really excited about rss in safari, but now i realize i will have to stick with netnewswire. if only could safari keep track of the feeds i've already read, it would be great... tench

how can one import all of one's rss feeds from netnewswire into safari? tench

mail 2 is importing my old messages, it starts ok, but then it hangs on "imported 597 of 6563 messages". it can't get beyond this point, and the time remaining simply starts increasing (now it's up to 8 hours!) i saw another thread here about how to import manually -- but that is for those...

hi, i've been looking for a detailed explanation/deconstruction of amazon's search portal www.a9.com but couldn't find it. Does anybody know if it has been analysed? I can see that it's javascript based, but i'd like to learn more. i very much like the slidable columns and optional...

Thanks for your response, Cheryl. Printing is a different issue, but internet should work, because VPC simply uses the Mac IP settings. It should work "out of the box" when Shared Networking is selected...

HI! i've installed virtual PC with windows xp in order to be able to test web sites with internet explorer. but i can't get the windows ie to connect to the internet. i have a netgear wireless router that has filtering enabled, so i checked the MAC address of my windows machine and...

weird, weird, weird. my applescript which uses system events stopped working. i tried a newer, simpler one, only to discover that keystroking with system events now is completely on drugs -- it turns every character into an "a" except for numbers. so: display dialog "hello" -- works...

i was wondering if anybody found a solution for using britannica on panther? still the same problem, absolutely no help from britannica support... all best, tench

Hi guys. I am having a serious problem with mod_rewrite on OS 10.3.3 running Apache. Basically, I had a nice set up working on my web hosting provider's server, but I had to replicate the set up on my laptop in order to present it at a meeting, where no internet connection will be available...

hi, i was wondering if anybody has seen an applescript that can close the topmost file and move it to trash? i often find myself downloading a file (.pdf, .doc or .mp3), looking at it and deciding i don't need to keep it. it's a pain in the neck to have to close it manually, find it in...