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@scottalanmiller said:

@WingCreative said:

1 hour to go until I'm on vacation... If anyone was wondering why the passage of time has slowed to a crawl, that's my bad.

Going somewhere? How long are you on holiday?

Every year around this time, a bunch of old friends and I head out to a beach house on the Oregon coast for a few days. We've been doing it since we were in high school together and it's become a tradition I look forward to... A mix of LAN partying and hanging out on the beach, peppered with a healthy amount of debauchery

And now it's just half an hour away!

Hopefully nothing explodes while I'm out.

To be honest I'm looking forward to the extra days of time off I took for decompressing after the trip almost as much though. I don't head back to work until next Thursday and then Labor Day weekend will be coming up.

1 hour to go until I'm on vacation... If anyone was wondering why the passage of time has slowed to a crawl, that's my bad.

Today was one of those perfect storms of random problems all popping up at once, including my supervisor being out sick all day. On the other hand, one of our copiers got a firmware update and that seems to have gone off without a hitch, so I guess karma is real.

Thanks for writing this up, I just learned about them this week myself and have been trying to think of a good project to test it out with! Glad to hear it seems to work as well as they say it does.

@scottalanmiller said:

2003 Mazda 3 is a nice car.

Mazda was never really on my radar for awesome, long-lasting car manufacturers but they sure are now!

I'm just hoping the previous owner ran it up and down the interstate for most of its miles as the car salesman said... It seems to be in pretty good condition despite the 200k miles, so there's a slight possibility that they were actually telling the truth.

I had to buy a car for the very first time in order to secure my current IT job... a 2004 Mazda 3. It just hit 200k miles a month or so ago, so we'll see what happens now!

I'm looking for a Subaru Forester myself for stuff like camping/road trips, but who knows when that will happen.

@scottalanmiller said:

@WingCreative said:

2nd dump from Ashley Madison hack is 2x, includes CEO e-mail

Of course the CEO has an account. Who doesn't have an account with their own service to see how it is working?

I think what they mean by "Includes CEO Email" is that the second dump contains the contents of the CEO's inbox.

2nd dump from Ashley Madison hack is 2x, includes CEO e-mail

@Minion-Queen said:

This seems like a scam. This is not how a company in the US or Canada works.

Agreed, and this analysis of their website doesn't do much to improve their credibility. How can they be "one of the leading and most trusted immigration and visa consultancy company in India" (their words) if they've only had a website for less than 2 years and use a single gmail address for the company?

@Lakshmana I hate to say it, but to me this seems like a scammer company trying to make money off of your desire to work in other countries. You should not have to pay so much money yourself for the opportunity to interview for a job!

@johnhooks said:

@WingCreative said:

@johnhooks said:

@WingCreative said:

Agreed that it's a combination of the inline styling and the non-breaking spaces used for the placeholder text. Oddly, the inline height was set to 120px when I checked it. Either way, setting "height: auto !important;" for the element will probably fix it as @johnhooks suggested.

The question is how the inline styling got there to begin with... I am assuming this is probably due to some javascript in the accordion plugin? Is there any setting in the accordion plugin that is set to about 120, or any settings related to height? If the !important flag works then it might not be worth bothering with for now, but generally every !important flag in your stylesheet is a shortcut that doesn't really address whatever root issue you're wrestling with.

I just unchecked the 121px in developer tools, it did initially show that way for me also. I used the !important just because it wouldn't override without it.

For whatever reason, sometimes these plugins have hard coded sizes (and in px even) so it's fun to have to do your own styling on top of their styling.

Same - I am hoping the inline styling is something that can be set in the plugin settings, but it's possible that it's just hard-coded in there. I thought it was odd that it was slightly different on my screen though, as if the inline style was being dynamically generated or something.

I'll admit I have plenty of !important flags in my own stylesheets due to things like this, I mostly mention it as a potentially more elegant way to solve the issue if OP is interested in learning more about CSS.

I edited the post but not in time :P. I wonder if it is dynamically changing based on resolution, but why a 1px difference? And why in px?

There's the mystery... without knowing which plugin is being used it's hard to know for sure.

If @Sparkum were interested in digging deeper into this, he could try pasting some dummy paragraphs from a Lorem Ipsum generator into one of the blank boxes before setting the height flag. It might be built to dynamically set the height for each accordion item, but I don't understand why the plugin dev would do that versus a simple "height: 100%" setting.

@scottalanmiller said:

Too late, the network is back up.

@johnhooks said:

@WingCreative said:

Agreed that it's a combination of the inline styling and the non-breaking spaces used for the placeholder text. Oddly, the inline height was set to 120px when I checked it. Either way, setting "height: auto !important;" for the element will probably fix it as @johnhooks suggested.

The question is how the inline styling got there to begin with... I am assuming this is probably due to some javascript in the accordion plugin? Is there any setting in the accordion plugin that is set to about 120, or any settings related to height? If the !important flag works then it might not be worth bothering with for now, but generally every !important flag in your stylesheet is a shortcut that doesn't really address whatever root issue you're wrestling with.

I just unchecked the 121px in developer tools, it did initially show that way for me also. I used the !important just because it wouldn't override without it.

For whatever reason, sometimes these plugins have hard coded sizes (and in px even) so it's fun to have to do your own styling on top of their styling.

Same - I am hoping the inline styling is something that can be set in the plugin settings, but it's possible that it's just hard-coded in there. I thought it was odd that it was slightly different on my screen though, as if the inline style was being dynamically generated or something.

I'll admit I have plenty of !important flags in my own stylesheets due to things like this, I mostly mention it as a potentially more elegant way to solve the issue if OP is interested in learning more about CSS.

Hmmm... SAM can't post to Spiceworks?

Quick, everyone head over there and recommend SANs, FreeNAS and VMWare!

Agreed that it's a combination of the inline styling and the non-breaking spaces used for the placeholder text. Oddly, the inline height was set to 120px when I checked it. Either way, setting "height: auto !important;" for the element will probably fix it as @johnhooks suggested.

The question is how the inline styling got there to begin with... I am assuming this is probably due to some javascript in the accordion plugin? Is there any setting in the accordion plugin that is set to about 120, or any settings related to height? If the !important flag works then it might not be worth bothering with for now, but generally every !important flag in your stylesheet is a shortcut that doesn't really address whatever root issue you're wrestling with.

Just went to check out the FAQ page and got a 404, is the page not published or set to private?

There may be a plugin to handle all of this for you automagically, I can take a look later this evening. Just offhand it does sound like you will want to set a width on the FAQ item element with height set to auto, but it's hard to say without being able to see the page.

edit: to be more specific about the width element, usually it's best to use percentages versus absolute pixels in today's world of super variable screen sizes. That would look like:

width: 100%;

for setting an element to take up as much horizontal space as possible.

I was just looking at the hx750i for my next build... from what I could tell the HXi line is one of the best options for PSUs on the market right now.

Here's the summary of TechPowerUp's exhaustive review of the HX1000i. Long story short: it's really good!

@scottalanmiller said:

@WingCreative said:

Good point - I run mine on a hosted VPS and set it up as a sort of private cloud storage, but on a local test lab they would essentially be fancy file server interfaces.

Even on hosted VPS, nothing cloud about the software or setup. It may or may not have the VPS running on cloud computing, but that's separate under the hood. It's no more cloud than any other software installed to a VPS on the same platform.

You got me there - I just went on a googling spree to learn the proper definition of cloud computing and found this NIST PDF. I don't see any mention of "a single VM running some software that makes serving files easier" so I am willing to admit that my use of the "private cloud" term may have been buzzwordy

@scottalanmiller said:

Important to note that many end users call these clouds. But there is no cloud technology or approach in Pydio or ownCloud. There are just fileservers, nothing cloud about them.

Good point - I run mine on a hosted VPS and set it up as a sort of private cloud storage, but on a local test lab they would essentially be fancy file server interfaces.

Setting up Owncloud and/or Pydio is a good way to get comfortable configuring a private cloud. I prefer Pydio myself but Owncloud seems more commonly deployed.

I've been searching for the words to describe this site in the back of my head since I first saw this thread, but I haven't found anything that truly does this horror justice.

This is like choosing to build one's storefront out of cardboard boxes to cut down on the cost of doing it right. I am just amazed that there is someone in this world that made the decision to buy an ad here... but then again, if this site exists, what isn't possible?

The memory of this website's unfortunate existence will be a morbid comfort the next time I see an article prophesying that web designers & developers are going to go out of business due to the existence of Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, etc.

With all of that said, if this person is actually a troll then they are of course nominated for whatever trolling equivalent there is for the Oscars... the Jimmies?