Skype kept auto adjusting my volume but with help with this forum entry, I modified the xml files and now I am good to go.
Archive for February, 2006
I was having problems with my desktop computer the past couple of weeks ever since I installed the IE 7 beta 2. I think that is the problem but who knows I install and uninstall so many programs to test I can’t be certain. But I do know that was the only program that was almost impossible to uninstall so I will blame IE 7 beta 2. 
I must share how easy it was for me to restore the important programs on my system. Mainly, Trillian, Firefox and Thunderbird. With Firefox, I like to start out from scratch, all I copied over was the bookmarks.html. Thunderbird, I copied the entire Thunderbird directory in the Application Data folder, then installed Thunderbird and I Was good to go. Trillilan, well that took a couple steps but I got Trillian up and running in no time too.
Check it out: http://world.honda.com/news/2006/4060208CivicSiSedan/
I have herd this rumor for a few months now and now it is a reality.
I wonder which plant they will produce the Sedan in. Currently, all Coupes are made in a plant in Canada, while all Sedans are made near Marysville, Ohio. If they make the Si Sedan in Ohio, it will just give me another reason to buy a Sedan over a Coupe.
There are a few other advantages to the Sedan. I suspect car insurance would be cheaper and the utility of the car would increase. It is a lot easier to drive people around in a 4 door than in a 2 door.
Well, I installed and played with the new IE7 beta 2 and I was impressed by some features they were able to copy from Firefox and Opera but I was turned off once I noticed how it broke a lot of my existing software. Basically, Nero and Yahoo Messenger became unstable during the install of IE7. If you use your computer with these programs ona regular basis, I would avoid the new IE7 beta.
I was eager to see how they would handle RSS feeds. To my suprise, they did not over-haul the method in which favorites are stored. They are still saved in files with a .url extension. Whats more disappointing is the RSS feeds are not integrated into the favorites. I know why they separated the RSS feeds from the Favorites; the RSS feeds need to be cached and refreshed every so often, which would bring up a problem storing the cached information in the Favorites folder. I was expecting them to create windows folders and dynamically populating each RSS folder with feed information but my assumption was wrong. The Favorites not keeping odd characters found in the web site bug titles remains.
IE 7 Lacking in Style
There are many style sheet (CSS) problems with Internet Explorer. I was rather disappointed to see they really did not fix any of them. In particular, they do not respect the transparent color property. This drives me nuts. Todd at GeekNewsCentral.com interviewed Microsoft about the program and they had an excuse why they did not fix all their CSS issues. I thought it was a cop out. They claim that adding the support would break existing designs specific for Internet Explorer. I think the opposite, many of us web developers have to avoid doing some really cool things with the style sheets simply because IE doesn’t recongize the styles. What a pain!
Uninstall
To uninstall IE7, click on start->run and copy/paste the following link:
%windir%\$NtUninstallie7bet2p$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
