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MySQL has some powerful, and perhaps underused spatial extensions, but the most interesting functions are still unimplemented: “Note: Currently, MySQL does not implement these functions…”
Among those as-yet unimplemented functions is DISTANCE(). Alternatives can be found here and here, though neither is clean or simple. I wonder if a simple MBRContains() is good enough, though…
I recently installed WordPress 2.5 and among the changes I noticed was a loss of Akismet’s “Recheck Spam” button (or something like that. It didn’t seem like such a problem at the time, but then I got swamped with so much trackback and comment spam that the flood DOS‘d my server. I had to disable [...]
It’s been a problem we’ve struggled with here for much longer than we should have, and it took a hotshot new guy in desktop support to show us the answer. But if you know the right magic, you can add a printer to Windows XP and make it available to all users.
See, if you add [...]
It turns out the Internet Explorer doesn’t properly support CSS’s position: fixed. Google led me to the following:
How To Create - Making Internet Explorer use position: fixed;
doxdesk.com: software: fixed.js
Fixed Positioning for Windows Internet Explorer
The DoxDesk solution looks promising and simple, but I think bugs elsewhere in my layout are preventing it from working. It’s time [...]
