Concern

For a long time now, I’ve been frustrated with the way my home page renders in Safari: if any line in the main table has a disclosure triangle in the left column (which is hooked up to do a FORM post to expand or collapse that item) the vertical spacing goes all awry. In Firefox, each line in the table is equal height (close to the height of the font), but in Safari, each line has this annoying extra space. Any ideas on how to make this look correctly in both browsers?

Screenshot of Firefox. Screenshot of Safari.

(I feel so 1999, blogging about cross-browser CSS)

Update: Solved! See the comments.

Hey lazyweb, I’m sure I read an article on-line in the past couple of weeks, that described the development style at Microsoft, during an early version of Word or Works or whatever. The article talked about how the project was a total death march, with engineers only implementing features when someone filed a bug saying that some feature didn’t work.

Did my broken mind dream up this article, or did I really read it? Where did I read it? It seems an appropriate thing to point out to people, in certain situations (hypothetically speaking…).

Forgive this, it’s stupid, but I’m in need of advice:

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Hey, lazyweb. What kind of pocket camera do you like?

I’ve sold my Canon, and since I have a digital SLR, I’d like to have a little point-and-shoot digital camera, something small so I can carry it with me most everywhere. As I understand it, there are quite a lot of different choices for portable cameras that take pretty good pictures, in this modern world of ours.

I’m thinking right now about either a Canon, Casio, or Pentax; what’s your opinion? Size is the big decider, here: I’d like to get something small, and thin (the, er, z-axis) is more attractive than the x/y size. I’d like something that takes good quality pictures, and which doesn’t have a long shutter delay. Mac OS X compatibility is needed (as is no dependency on some craptastic camera-maker’s software), GNU/Linux compatibility is a nice-to-have.

Update: Canon PowerShot SD1000 Digital Elph. Tiny!

I’m wondering: is ImageMagick basically the most complete, fastest way to resize images on Linux? Especially considering that you might want to resize a variety of image formats. Because, with less-than-full-frame digital camera images, even producing reduced-size images at terrible quality takes a long time.

Also, do you happen to know if it’s possible to get “file system events” — such as close-write, move, and delete — from a Samba server? Of course, one can hack the source to add this, but I was curious if there was a built-in way to do this already.