May 7, 2007
Something that bugged me recently was if I did image replacement for in CSS to turn a textual link into a graphic with a transparent PNG, only the text would be 'hot' in IE. All the transparent areas wouldn't be clickable. My solution was to have the anchor inside of another container, give the container the background image, then give the anchor the same dimensions (pretend you're doing image replacement but don't give it a background). You must also purposefully neglect to assign a position (neither relative or absolute work. This solved it for me. If you want to position the image in an alternate location that doesn't represent the existing flow of the markup, then either this won't work for you or you'll have to play around with it more. Normal margin/padding/floats work just fine, however.
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May 2, 2007
If you've ever attempted to format a drive from booting off a Windows XP disc and you get this error after the process has reached 100%, here's a fix that worked for me. I thought my drive was busted but couldn't accept it because it would fail at 100% every time, regardless of partition size. What I ended up doing was formatting a small partition (enough to hold just the OS + extra space) with Fat32. Then, without deleting the partition I formatted over it with NTFS. This worked. The reason I used a small partition is because Fat32 doesn't support sizes over something like 32GB. Fairly useless of a fix on its own with a large drive, however, once you install XP you can format the rest of the space from within the OS.
Because this error appears to be not a fault of the drive, but rather some sort of incompatibility with the motherboard chipset, make sure to install your motherboard chipset drivers first. After that's set, go to your control panel and then administrative tools. Open computer management. Go to the disk management section on the left side and you'll see a graph-like display of your active drives. Right click on your unpartitioned space and click new partition. I'm sure you can figure out the rest.
In conclusion, hardware is silly and the rest of you shouldn't have to suffer like I did.
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