Wiser man and smarter IE
In other news, I solved me fight with IE6 today by being the wiser man. I gave up on my fancy layout for the new mapbuilder examples and agreed with IE6 that a less cooler version is much better.
IE7 however is a much smarter browser, so I liked to test it there as well. Apparently, however, IE7 is too smart for its own good. It doesn’t want to show me a webpage. For the record, the (virtual) computer was connected and I could access the site with another browser.
Maybe it has a build in filter that knows which pages are dangerous to the user, since FF did work on the same computer and showed non-dangerous sites without a problem.
Home movies
I finally got time to sort out how to turn my 3000 photos into stopmotion movies. I was hoping to do this under ubuntu, but couldn’t find a stable enough app that could combine the photos, scale them down and turn them into a movie.
I tried stopmotion and pitivi, but the first didn’t let me scale down and the second, well didn’t let me do anything. So far for the first linux video-creation attempt. So I turned to vmware player and installed virtualdub under windows and scp’d the photos there and created the movies.