Opera 9.5 Thoughts
I know it's stealing Firefox3's thunder, but Opera 9.5 was just released and it is REALLY well done. I have always been amazed at how blazing fast it is and this release continues in that vein.
Vacation? What’s that?
I don't think I truly know what the words "vacation" or "relax" mean. Seriously. We're visiting friends right now and I've taken the week off, conceivably to "relax", or have a vacation. But I don't know if I'd be able to relax if my life depended on it. When I've not been running around town with my little brood, or busily doing "fun" stuff, I've been trying to get caught up on my work e-mail, personal e-mail, and GSOC project, among other busy-work. Not exactly relaxing fare.
Sanity Restored: Artwiz Fonts in Kubuntu Hardy
I switched from SUSE 10.3 to Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) just this evening. It's always good to get a feel for how the various distros are doing. Anyway, it took me a bit of digging to figure out how to get the artwiz fonts (smoothansi, in particular) to work as my konsole font. Thanks to this article for the help! Couple of notes: Ubuntu Hardy doesn't ship xfonts-artwiz anymore, apparently. Download them from this sourceforge project. The trick is to tell fontconfig to use bitmapped fonts by running sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config.
Spice Up Your Router (or Charter and Linksys can bite me!)
I had THE most frustrating day yesterday. After a hellish night of not sleeping (darned cold!!), I wake up to find that my internet connection is totally borked. Looked at the router's status page and it can't get a DHCP address from my lovely ISP, Charter.net. Spent an hour on the phone with Charter's completely unhelpful people. The guy actually said "gee, it's kind of funny that you're calling in with a Linksys router that isn't able to get an IP address today--we've had a lot of Linksys router users call us today and tell us that." I asked him if he didn't think that that might be an indication of a problem in Charter's setup and that it might be a non-coincidence that today, a bunch of Linksys-router-using people are calling?? He actually had the audacity to tell me that he thought it was Linksys's fault... that maybe they pushed a firmware update out (HUH?!?! I have to flash my router to upgrade its firmware, dork), or maybe there's just a bunch of Linksys routers that went belly-up on the same night (again, HUH?!?!?).
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Firefox3, Your Old Extensions, And You
I've been using Firefox 3, beta5 for a while now and am very much liking it. It's crashed a fair bit, but that's understandable being that it's only a beta5. One thing that has bothered me, though, was that quite a few of my must-have extensions aren't released for FF3 yet. TinyURL Creator, for one, is notably absent. Well, thanks to this page, I found a really simple workaround to enable (possibly dangerous and a bad idea to do) your old extensions in FF3:
KDE3, KDE4, Plasma, Twinview == Not Good
PSP And Real Playlists?
Dearest Lazyweb,
Big Giant Hubble Coming Attraction Glasses
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