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X-Window Compositing

I tried using compositing on X-Window (with Kompmgr, of course), and it is amazing. However, it is still in the developmental stages and isn’t very well-known. It features window transparency, shadows, fading in/out for everything, and more. I’m beginning to see why Windows Vista has nothing innovative. Microsoft showed off how the little icons would […]

SOLVED: GRUB Error 17

I recently changed my system to a dual-boot setup with Ubuntu GNU/Linux, and it worked magically for awhile. However, I was using Windows XP to make a FAT32 partition (seems like I had to make it in Windows for it to be recognized), when my GRUB boot loader messed up. I couldn’t boot my computer. […]

I was testing browsers…

… and I noticed something odd – Opera, Firefox, and Internet Explorer all handle DOM Style colors differently when a script gets the color as a string. Let’s say you make something’s color red. Internet Explorer will keep the format you wrote it – if you put #FF0000, it will give “#FF0000?. If you put […]