You have questions. A ninja has the answers. Been trying out Firefox 2 Beta 1. I’ve been fairly indifferent to most of the changes from 1.5, but there are a couple of features I really like. First up, the inline spellchecking in text boxes is pretty nifty. This was previously available through the Spellbound extension, [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Geek Stuff category.
Feeds
Odd. According to Blogger’s help site, Blogger only supports Atom feeds, and not RSS (it suggests going to Feedburner.com if you particularly want RSS). And yet, when I added an Atom feed to the site, Blogger seems, out of the generosity of its heart, to have added an RSS 2 feed as well. How strange. [...]
Rockbox
I have for the last week been trying out the Rockbox alternative firmware for my DAP. Sound quality is, as far as I can hear, about the same. The sound quality using the standard firmware is excellent and this is still the case with Rockbox. Feature-wise, Rockbox is well ahead of the default iRiver firmware. [...]
Clearlooks
When I first saw the new version of the ‘Clearlooks’ Metacity theme I was a little skeptical. It looks good, but I’m not sure the old version didn’t look better. Nonetheless, I decided to try it out, and discovered that when a window is maximised the clickable area of the close button is flush with [...]
IE And Shitty Web Applications
Further proof, as if it were needed, that both webmail and IE are offences against man and God. I had to submit, this morning, a PowerPoint presentation by email to one of my professors. Now, I remember when sending large email attachments to someone with a dial-up internet connection was a deeply unpleasant thing to [...]
Web 2.0
Well, with blogs being a major focus of the whole Web 2.0 bubble craze, I was naturally a little worried that this here blog might be a part of it. Fortunately, the handy Web 2.0 Validator service was able to set my mind at rest. I scored a fairly safe 6 out of 40. Even [...]
Kernel and Eyes
Whee! I’ve finally got this blasted 2.6.14-ck7 kernel working, without having to bugger about with an initrd. The last time I tried to install kernel 2.6.14, I ran into difficulties when my usual method of configuring it was foiled. Generally I start with the .config file used in the default Arch Linux kernel, then run [...]
Futility
So, on Thursday, I decide to try to get Apache to sneakily substitute files from another server without telling anyone (I have my reasons). I had got a vague idea of how to do this sort of thing while looking up how to automatically redirect visitors from one domain to another. I start by searching [...]
I can’t afford it, but…
Hmmm. http://store.yahoo.com/pckeyboards/cusnonusen.html http://store1.yimg.com/I/pckeyboards_1834_1082218 Should I or should I not?
Foolishness
Well, that was embarrassing. I’ve just figured out why my machine was the only one that could (a) get DHCP information from my wireless router and (b) connect to the Internet through it. That in itself is a good thing. The fact that the problem turned out to have been caused by my stupidly misunderstanding [...]