Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Firefox 3's big foob
Software's goal is to advance, upgrade, add features, improve upon the existing, and basically just... get better.
{deep breath}
Firefox 3, doesn't so much work for me.
Firebug breaks a lot more than it used it, and by breaks, I mean DOM Inspector doesn't come shipped with Firefox de jure, but it doesn't really get installed with Firefox 3 de facto. And to me, one whom considers themselves "advanced", but feel trustworthy enough of a software to just let the default work fine enough. (I'm thinking of the "trustworthiness" of Firefox when they declared Apple untrustworthy for including Safari with its apple update.
Basically, if Firefox 3 would default install DOM Inspector, I would be happy. Web Developer toolbar should give me better advice since I don't have DOM Inspector installed, and Firebug should show the blue line around an object when I inspect it.
Thats it, that'll win my vote.
{deep breath}
Firefox 3, doesn't so much work for me.
Firebug breaks a lot more than it used it, and by breaks, I mean DOM Inspector doesn't come shipped with Firefox de jure, but it doesn't really get installed with Firefox 3 de facto. And to me, one whom considers themselves "advanced", but feel trustworthy enough of a software to just let the default work fine enough. (I'm thinking of the "trustworthiness" of Firefox when they declared Apple untrustworthy for including Safari with its apple update.
Basically, if Firefox 3 would default install DOM Inspector, I would be happy. Web Developer toolbar should give me better advice since I don't have DOM Inspector installed, and Firebug should show the blue line around an object when I inspect it.
Thats it, that'll win my vote.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
why is the keyboard shortcut for the search box different between firefox and internet explorer?
To answer the question "why is the keyboard shortcut for the search box different between firefox and internet explorer?", I would say is innovation.
By the way, to get to the search box in...
Firefox: Control + K
Internet Explorer (7): Control + E
Why they made them different beats me. Why shortcuts differ between mac, windows, and linux versions of the same product also beats me. This is no added feature, but I'm glad it bothered me enough to look it up, now if I forget, well then hopefully something more interesting is refusing to give up its brain space.
...family guys quotes..
By the way, to get to the search box in...
Firefox: Control + K
Internet Explorer (7): Control + E
Why they made them different beats me. Why shortcuts differ between mac, windows, and linux versions of the same product also beats me. This is no added feature, but I'm glad it bothered me enough to look it up, now if I forget, well then hopefully something more interesting is refusing to give up its brain space.
...family guys quotes..
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is out (officially)
Get started with Ubuntu. I would recommend you use the Torrent, as it should be inversely slammed as compared to the server.
ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso 23-Apr-2008 02:03 699M Desktop CD for PC (Intel x86) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 24-Apr-2008 08:23 28K Desktop CD for PC (Intel x86) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso 23-Apr-2008 02:03 699M Desktop CD for PC (Intel x86) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 24-Apr-2008 08:23 28K Desktop CD for PC (Intel x86) computers (BitTorrent download)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
fika: powering late nights
I'm not sure I subscribe to this idea of mornings beginning with abrupt alarms, rushing to whatever destination you need to get to, eating quickly or not at all, and too much sunlight being forced through our eyes?
I much prefer the concept of no beginning. In which things will just always be there, waiting for you to do them, however not in the order of this must be done while you would much prefer to be sleeping. The solution is simple, wake up, do your thing, return home tired and take a nap, then fika. Fika to the rescue. No more tired eyes, no more struggling to begin doing what it is you need to be doing.
Oops, homework due Wednesday morning, well there's always Tuesday night. Thank you 24/7 libraries, and thank you coffee grinder.
I much prefer the concept of no beginning. In which things will just always be there, waiting for you to do them, however not in the order of this must be done while you would much prefer to be sleeping. The solution is simple, wake up, do your thing, return home tired and take a nap, then fika. Fika to the rescue. No more tired eyes, no more struggling to begin doing what it is you need to be doing.
Oops, homework due Wednesday morning, well there's always Tuesday night. Thank you 24/7 libraries, and thank you coffee grinder.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
I've upgraded two of my machine to Hardy and it wasn't completely without trouble. First off, I would recommend to the Ubuntu upgrade process team that if they can foresee an issue with your old/working wireless firmware drivers not working in Heron due to them upgrading to a new future version, than do us a favor and download the updated version.
Under 7.10 I had bcm43xx-fwcutter_006-3_i386.deb and wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
However 8.04 needs something like bcm43xx-fwcutter_011-3_i386.deb which means my upgraded machine is without wireless, atleast until I can do my further updates via LAN cable.
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In other news, school is cool. All around challenging and intellectually stimulating. They like to drag you around for your first two years with yet-another-computer-class and some decent professors/grad_students, but once you get into the cool classes, ever class is cool (minus one), and all the professors are superstars (except one).
So the hope is that I shall become one with the code after this quarter, and be able to design my own computer architecture, do lots of software engineering projects, and make awesome happen out intense constraints... time, freedom...
Under 7.10 I had bcm43xx-fwcutter_006-3_i386.deb and wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
However 8.04 needs something like bcm43xx-fwcutter_011-3_i386.deb which means my upgraded machine is without wireless, atleast until I can do my further updates via LAN cable.
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In other news, school is cool. All around challenging and intellectually stimulating. They like to drag you around for your first two years with yet-another-computer-class and some decent professors/grad_students, but once you get into the cool classes, ever class is cool (minus one), and all the professors are superstars (except one).
So the hope is that I shall become one with the code after this quarter, and be able to design my own computer architecture, do lots of software engineering projects, and make awesome happen out intense constraints... time, freedom...
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