I’ve been forced to abandon Firefox 2. Around the time they released Firefox 2.0.0.12, I noticed my Bookmarks Toolbar (the toolbar below the Navigation Toolbar) was blank. Normally, it would look more like: (Without all that Flock-specific stuff on the lefthand side, of course) The strange thing was, this happened on all three PCs: home [...]
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Stop helping me, Microsoft
I know how to read, write, spell, and type. I don’t need Outlook to help me out by autocorrecting. I swear I’ve disabled autocorrection several times now, yet the default helping behavior seems to reappear every now and again. To make sure I’m not crazy: Next time this happens, I’ll have PROOF I disabled it [...]
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I have two chicken breasts that I’m unsure how I want to prepare. I wandered over to the Epicurious web site. It’s not good. Where do I find ordinary chicken recipes? This is what happens when you design a web site by committee. ALL I’M LOOKING FOR is some regular run-of-the-mill recipes using chicken. I [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Why I’m liking Panix
Remember when I had a bunch of problems with this web site because of 1&1′s inability to fix a PHP problem? I moved to a virtual server at Panix.com, and so far I’m quite happy. I even received this in my inbox a few minutes ago, completely unsolicited. Happy new year! Your Panix V-Colo now [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Showdown: Mac Mini vs. Honey Baked Ham
Link: The definitive Mac mini/Honey Baked Ham smackdown Insightful comparison between the Mac Mini and a Honey Baked Ham. The Mini definitely has better long term value… but damn, that’s some good ham.
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Tip for HP. Want to make it easier for people to buy stuff from you? Make sure your Request For Information form doesn’t return this: Error response Error response Error code 404. Message: File /opt/apps/icc-ixd/icc-ixd-1.1.15/icc/doc/docroot/ xdform/kill_session?redirect= https:/ovrd.external.hp.com/hpp/hpp2rd not found. Error code explanation: 404 = Nothing matches the given URI. … especially if the product sells [...]
Read the rest of this entry »iTunes ARGH
iTunes hates me. The feeling is mutual. How do I command-click on three songs and play them immediately? Or do I honestly need to create a playlist for this function? In Windows I could select three MP3s, right-click, and then say Play in Winamp… and it would. In iTunes-land, I end up with a bunch [...]
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A coworker, who bought an iMac late last week, has been struggling with printing to a PC-attached printer from his Mac. A few things he learned: The built-in printer support is sub-par. Download and install improved drivers from Gutenprint. Not only does this provide more printer drivers than ship with OSX (like HP DJ cp1700 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »named-checkzone.exe failing on Windows with INSIST(0) error
My regular readers will have no idea what I’m talking about. This is for the Googlers out there that come across this. Trying to run named-checkzone.exe in BIND 9.4.1-P1 fails with: ..\named-checkzone.c:127: INSIST(0) failed. This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’s support team for more [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Sensible defaults
From today’s Sensible Defaults file is this gem. This comes from the Entourage app in Office for Mac 2004 when you want to delete a meeting from your calendar. In my case I have a recurring daily meeting that I occasionally cancel based on everyone’s workload. The default behavior — what Entourage is assuming — [...]
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