Jehiah Czebotar has come up with some good solutions for styling input button widths in MSIE
http://jehiah.com/archive/button-width-in-ie

And for buttons in tables there’s this:
http://jehiah.com/archive/button-width-in-ie-revised

Ruby on Rails can be incredibly easy to install for development purposes. However, there are lots of choices when you anticipate your needs in production that can quickly add complexity. After a fair amount of research, I’ve settled on the following stack:

• Debian Testing – very close to the next release of stable at this point, necessary for Mongrel installation
• Ruby 1.8.4, etc. – only available on testing
• Mongrel – considered the successor to lighthttpd for best webserver to use with RoR
• Ruby on Rails – from the trunk under version control rather than a specific release, will lock down to a release later
• MySQL 5.0.24 – the latest on Debian Testing
• Globalize – Rails plugin to support internationalization, from trunk under version control
• Subversion – for managing my source, as well as dependencies to external source code
• Emacs and Ruby and Rails Support in Emacs
• misc. supporting packages

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We were working on a remote machine last week, and had vnc tunnelling through ssh to use some of the gui utitlities on the machine. And after spending a bunch of time looking for a web browser on the remote machine, I realised, I could just set up a tunnel to the webbrowser and then Bob and Mason could hit the website on my ipnumber.

So I showed Bob and Mason how to set up a tunnel in putty, which is pretty easy, there is a section under connections called tunnels where you can specify the port at the remote and local end. It certainly makes life a lot easier than trying to debug a page in lynx.

The instructions for setting up ubuntu with a root filesystem over NFS in the Ubuntu wiki

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/OnNFSDrive

are fine as far as they go, but they do leave out some fairly crucial steps which bit me pretty hard, so here are my notes. I don’t know if this is the “right” way to do this, but it works for me:

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Currently there is a bug in the Koha installer, in that one of the columns in one of the tables is using a word that is reserved in MySQL 5, but wasn’t in MySQL 4. This will be fixed for new versions of Koha, but for now the fix for it is detailed here.

The way joins are handled have changed slightly to, the way to fix them (at least until 2.2.6 is out and you upgrade to that) is detailed here.