I've just closed the W3C tag. From here on, it's just another website. I could care less if their office in Southern France is working hard for the good of the web or if their members met in Bora Bora to define HTML 5. TBL? It's a soggy variation of BLT sandwich.

When I fired up RadRails this morning for a coding-in-bed session, MBP screen was filled with middle portion of RadRails IDE window. Last time I used RadRails, it was on the big screen downstairs so Eclipse (which RadRails is based on) recreated the IDE window using the last saved window size and position, blissfully ignoring the fact that MBP screen is much smaller. Since both the draggable window title area and the window resize box at the lower right was not visible, I couldn't resize the window. Duh. I suspect this problem is common for Eclipse, Eclipse-based IDEs, and likely even RCP applications.

Anyway, here is the workaround:

1. cd {workspace}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/
2. open workbench.xml file
3. change height, width, x, and y values on the 4th line to reasonable values
4. save and close file.
5. launch Eclipse/RadRails

That's it.

Searchers found James Kim's body today. Not surprised but I was hoping that he somehow managed to survive out there. To think that he slowly froze to death in a snow filled creek without knowing the ultimate fate of his wife and kids back in the car makes me unbearably sad. sigh

Live OneCare Tip: If you switched to Live OneCare recently like I have (it's cheaper, faster, and uses less resources), you might find that OneCare Firewall blocks Windows File/Printer Sharing due to a bug. To unblock file/print sharing service, trying this:

1. Open Windows Live OneCare window
2. Open "Other Tasks" >> "View or change settings" [hideous obscuring of key functionality IMHO]
3. Switch to "Firewall" panel then click on "Advanced settings" button
4. You should be at "Firewall Advanced Settings" panel.
5. Change the top set of radio buttons to the setting you want (I use "subnet only") then click "Apply".
6. If that didn't work, try toggling ("Do not share…", "Apply", "Only share…", Apply).

Above steps allowed me to access Windows shared folders from my MBP again recently.

I have a relatively old NEC printer (NEC SuperScript 870) hooked up to my desktop machine. It has PCL instead of PostScript so it wasn't a surprise to find that OS X Tiger didn't come with a driver for the printer. But, with a bit of searching, I found that Gutenprint, a massive bundle of print drivers for Mac and *nix, had a driver for my printer.

I installed Gutenprint 5.0 for OSX binary (dmg, source) but when I clicked on the printer model list popup in the OS X Print & Fax preference panel, I didn't see NEC. Reading the brief Gutenprint how to guide, I found that the Option key needs to be pressed while clicking on the printer model list popup to see the full list of drivers. Stupid but I didn't have time to rant so I did as instructed and, sure enough, NEC showed up in the list. Selecting that resulted in a list of NEC printers supported, one of them being SuperScript 870. After printing a few test pages, I can say the Gutenprint driver works excellently for my printer.