This is really just a quick piece of trivia, but can cause tremendous problems if you're not expecting it.

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After recently taking a trip down memory lane with the old DOS-based Id game, Hexen, under Wine. I discovered a very random issue with my installation of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex): my right alt key didn't really do anything.

• linux

Web development is entirely reliant on browsers to display web sites. Without browsers, the large majority of the Internet would cease to be useful – or functional for that matter. So how is it that browsers don't matter?

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• browser

GoDaddy doesn't allow sites to write files to the filesystem using the PHP filesystem functions. This may be due to security concerns, but it put a kink in the comic system. Storing strip images could always be done through the database, but that adds a whole extra layer of complexity and performance drain to the application.

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Being a web guy in a small government organization, I have limited amounts of time to put towards each page. The amount of time I put into a page directly effects how practical it is to create that page; it also effects how much time I have for the next page. The time I take to put up one page has a kind of cascade effect on how much the County can put online. With that taken under consideration, I do not take lightly any technique that saves me time. PsPad, my text editor, has earned a warm place in my heart because of just that: it's full of little time-saving functions that make my life easier.

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