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Cox Crow

Asking the Stupid Questions Since 1971
 Tuesday, April 23, 2002

Incorrect default mime.types

We got a bug report from a member who was posting an HTML file linking to an external CSS file in his personal web page space: Mozilla 1.0 RC1 was not rendering the CSS.

If the samples in Mozilla's Bugzilla entries 111327 and 129468 are any indication, the default MIME types set on these servers are invalid:

  • Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP2
  • Netscape-Enterprise 4.x
  • Zeus/4.1
  • WebSTAR/3.0 ID/59888

You can see a sample of the error here, at least momentarily. It's been corrected on the web servers for personal web pages.

Sometimes my work intersects with other things I do in interesting ways.

6:05:00 PM # Google It!
categories: Writing Online, System Administration

Usable Error Messages

Radio says,

[Macro error: Can't get the address of "methodResponse" because the table doesn't have an object with that name.]

Let's translate this into something helpful, shall we?

[Macro error: Can't get the address of "methodResponse" because the $TABLEIBEENLOOKINFER table doesn't have an object with the name $OBJECTIBEENLOOKINFER.]

I'd particularly like the $TABLEIBEENLOOKINFER variable to be defined, so then I could quickly find the table Radio thinks it needs for this script.

4:29:17 PM # Google It!
categories: Writing Online

Old Data

I have some older data in storage at home, mostly documents from previous jobs and college. Some of it is no longer worth anything to me, such as the Bloom County modules for the Intermission screensaver. Then there are things that I know I want, but can't get, such as the e-mail from I.M.A.G.E. and Thaumaturgix on a 3.2GB SCSI hard disk. What's the problem? The disk is formatted as HFS+. The computers I have to read the disk are an Apple LC-III, an iMac, and a Dell Dimension P90. The LC-III has SCSI, but Macintosh System 7.6 won't read HFS+. The iMac doesn't have SCSI. The Dell Dimension has SCSI, but only internally. Luckily it runs Linux, so I can add read-only support for HFS+ to it, as soon as I update my kernel.

I could buy a USB-SCSI or Firewire-SCSI adapter, but I'd rather not spend $100 on something I'll use once. Looks like I'll go the cheap route and buy a simple SCSI adapter and remove the hard disk from the case and download some code.

This is a typical example of the problems with maintaining digital data.

11:41:52 AM # Google It!