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This weekend, being stranded inside by the rain I tried to help a friend with a small flex (flash) application. The code looked very simple and I could not understand the problem. On a non-US keyboard flash seemed to ignore all special chars (like @, #) in a basic text field. After some research I found this very, very ugly and old bug laying around since FF 2. It seems it had been corrected sometime and then lost again and there is no solution for it other than setting the wmode parameter to window....

Since I started paying some attention to the photos I make the display calibration issue recurrently came into question. I tinkered as much as I could with xgamma mostly with bad results. This weekend however I could borrow a Spider 3 device and I played with dispcalGUI and argyll. There is not much I could say because the doc on the respective sites is great so after some wait I managed to get and ....

My Dell D820 broke yesterday a few months after the warranty expiration. There is a sadness associated with the moment your laptop is broke which cannot be explained. I had this feeling with this laptop 3 times already. I think the next question will be not: “which dell should I buy?” but rather “which laptop should I buy?” which is far more complicated. Anyway I realised in 11 years since I own Dell laptops most of the criteria for choosing one are the same:...

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My laptop is sick, am I entitled for a medical leave? Comments: Tudor - Dec 3, 2008 you’re not, it is ;)