Dave, being a new web developer I would like to know how I can code for a numeric value to decrease by 1 every 24 hours based on the local time function.
Specifically, we are trying to create a reminder for our employees of an upcoming DoD audit in the facility. The count down will represent the number of days remaining before it’s conducted. So what I need to do is begin with a date
and start the countdown from there. What is the code that I should use?
Dave, I keep hearing about RSS, XML and RSS feeds. I just barely have a clue what they are, but when people then start talking about RSS aggregators, what are they talking about and why would I want one? Do you use an aggregator, and if so, which one?
Dave, I am a Sun Solaris sysadmin and really liked your book
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts. However, I don’t seem to find the “rev” utility on any of my Sun servers running Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and even 9. I couldn’t find it on the sunfreeware.com site either. Could you tell me where I can find it?
Dave, how do I remove the “white” background color from the Google Adsense Search toolbar since it isn”t a gif or jpg picture as is your “Ask Dave” icon? Thanks!
Dave, I’ve been reading all this controversy about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and how it costs companies tons of money to come into compliance, and how it gives too much control to the government, etc etc. At the same time, not a day goes by without some company delaying or restating financial reports. As an investor, this is driving me bonkers! Can you tell me a bit about Sarbanes-Oxley so I can get a handle on it? Thanks.
Dave, I want to copy a directory tree BUT I want to specify the root of the operation and the destination directory and then specify name/type patterns a la find. The result I want is the root at the destination and then only the directories which have files that match the pattern and the files themselves. Does that make sense?
Dave, Why is it that, “out of the box”, the Firefox browser looks great (font wise) when run on a Windows OS but looks terrible (almost too small and unreadable) on any Linux OS I have tried it on. It is probably the number one killer reason for me not switching to Linux.
Dave, I am reading your book Creating Cool Web Sites and you say on page 22 “suppose you recently created the file not-yet.html in NotePad…” and go on to show how it would look on Internet Explorer with and without HTML tags. But I cannot duplicate this example!
NotePad does not let me save as .html, nor does WordPad and if I save it as Web Page in Microsoft Word 2003 it won’t work either.
I am super motivated to get going but have just about ripped all my hair out as I can’t get past the first step.
