The worst bit about the forthcoming Firefox 3 is the new functionality of the address bar. The new richlist format gives far too much preference to the title of the page rather than the URL, and just looks ugly.
Fear not, help is at hand.
Type "about:config" into the address bar, find the browser.urlbar.richResults boolean entry, and set it to "false". Restart Firefox and all is back to normal.
My 30-month old Fujitsu laptop has been getting progressively worse and worse. It overheats if you use it too much, and the touchpad seems to be developing dementia. After it crashed 3 times in 10 minutes yesterday morning whilst I was trying to work from home I gave up and ordered a replacement.
I’m now the owner of a new Lenovo 3000 N200 which seems very nice so far. The keyboard is the best I’ve ever used on a laptop although the bottom-left CTRL key is in the wrong place which is irritating, and the rest of it seems nice and sturdy. After a couple of hours work I’ve updated the software, added the various bits I need, and removed most of the cruft that comes pre-installed. All it needs now is another 2GB of memory.
If you visit mozilla.org and pick Mozilla Store from the middle of the front page, you get presented with a message saying
You have accessed the site incorrectly to go to the International Store Click Here
How have I accessed it incorrectly? I clicked on the link you provided on your website. If you know I’ve accessed it incorrectly, why not redirect me to the proper page rather than just sitting there telling me that I’ve got it wrong?
Useless fuckwits.
After deliberating over it for several years, I’ve finally replaced the aging PC behind the TV with an Apple Airport Express for listening to music through the amp. Despite using a slightly non-standard configuration, I’m not actually using the wireless part, it only took 10 minutes to set up and seems to be working perfectly.
Oddly enough, the cheapest place to get them at the moment is PC World.
My back is still bad, but staying at home was driving me crazy. I think daytime television is a conspiracy to force people back to work. At least my laptop didn’t keep dying yesterday, I think it was the threat of replacement that might have scared it into some sort of stability.
I’m working from home today because my back is playing up. Normally this isn’t too much of a problem, however my laptop has already died three times this morning which is somewhat frustrating.
Wordpress 2.3.2 is out, and the upgrade is a doddle, much easier than the MovableType upgrades were.
My christmas present to myself this year was a Samsung 2232BW 22" widescreen monitor.
So far I’ve very impressed with it.
Many years ago when I first decided to set up a proper blog type site, I looked at a few options and ended up running Movable Type because IIRC it worked quite happily with text files and didn’t need a full-blown database.
Over the years MT improved and got more complicated, but I sort of knew what I was doing so stayed with it. In September 2007 MT4 came out which was a fairly radical change so I rashly upgraded. I basically ended up having to redesign the site from scratch and certain functionality was broken, but I stuck with it out of a sense of loyalty.
However come mid December, for no reason that I can determine, MT stopped working completely. Every time I tried to post an entry or comment it failed with an error message. I tried to find a solution to the problem with no success, and eventually came to the conclusion that MT needed to go. It’s overly complicated and the peer-support seems somewhat lacking.
Fortunately a domain I’d been after for a while had become available, so I registered that, configured Apache to serve up the new site, downloaded Wordpress and had it running within 20 minutes. It was actually easier to import the old content into Wordpress than it was to get a complete export out of MT in the first place.
Having now played around with Wordpress for a few days it’s definitely easier to use and configure for what I want. The themes are far easier to install and modify, and plugins drop-in seamlessly. MT by comparison is overly complicated, but possibly more powerful if you can get your head round it and spend the time learning it’s idiosyncrasies. However the unexplained breakage is worrying and enough for me to avoid it in the future.
Wordpress also seems a lot faster as well which is handy.
Welcome to a new URL.