Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 138

I have to agree with Wouter regarding Firefox Iceweasel 3’s suckyness. It might be a superior product in many fronts (I prefer it overall to its predecesor), but were it not for the usefulness of its many available extensions (most notably Web Developer, which has become an integral part of my everyday life), I’d have jumped ship for basically any other browser. I’m just… adding an <AOL>ME TOO!</AOL> on Wouter’s comments… WTF, just go to about:config… So… Are you telling me that Firefox (even if it were the original, Mozilla-blessed version) has a warranty? No? Didn’t think so… Go to...

Not only dumb, but irreal… Firefox/Iceweasel has no warranty Attachments (34 KB)

Attachments (220 KB) Comments 2009-03-10 10:14:00 It’s windows… Jejeje, que mas se podria esperar de algo asi?

Andrew asks about Linux-friendly eSATA controllers. A long time ago, I also looked for some - but basically no one seems to know about that, or will try to rip your eyes for it. In January, however, I looked for (and bought) an external USB enclosure for SATA disks. As portability was more important than speed, I only asked for USB. Good, got the kit, paid for it. The external enclosure had an external eSATA port. Not only that, it shipped with a standard PC expansion slot bracket and adaptor - Yes, it connects to your internal SATA port, and...

In this Free Software movement we have many mottos - One of which, describing what motivates us to work writing code, is scratch where it itches. Of course, I could not keep it to myself - Almost a week ago, I took part of the World Naked Bike Ride. What I didn’t tell you… Is that it became obvious I cannot reach most of by back - And it’s because I’m mostly careless. When the WNBR started, it was still quite cloudy, even starting to rain… so I was mostly careless. If you opened the newspaper PDF I attached to...

Several people have approached me (or I’ve stumbled upon their sites) asking me about something called Debian 5.0 Beta 2. It. Is. Not. That. Please read clearly the announcement for Debian Installer lenny beta 2 - Yes, I understand this reached many people who are not involved in Debian but are enthusiastic users nevertheless. In short: The only thing that reached the beta is the debian-installer program (usually called just d-i), the amazing piece of code that handles a Debian installation in your system. And yes, it is meant for wide testing and work. But please, do not take this...

Bubulle’s improvements on running make me envy him. Of course, I’m nowhere close to Dirk’s (or for that matter, I can only hope never to be as insane as Mauricio). I must admit that I have heavily reduced my running. This is in no small part due to the fact that it’s not easy to find decently-priced running shoes of the right size in Mexico - But well, that’s only an excuse after all. But yes, if I run over 7Km with my current shoes, I get blisters, invariably. And I’m a bit short on money right now… Partly, I’ve...

After thinking it over a couple of times, I did it. I told you here about the World Naked Bike Ride. Thousands of bikers, in over 130 cities around the world, voiced their concerns about the lack of caution drivers have towards us, about the abuse of fossil fuels for urban transportation, about the easy we are not to be seen. Many among us have been run over by careless drivers (in my case, no consequences except a broken helmet - And yes, MJ: although the impact was on the flat surface of the road and not on the kerb,...

Exists. Feels nice. Makes me float. Is it real? On the other hand… Fear exists as well… And there even are nice sparks in my temporal reality… Comments almost Anonymous 2008-06-09 16:14:42 sometimes…faith and fear sometimes…faith and fear are like the two faces of the same coin. but sametimes there are not, but what can we say about someone that only feels fear? … or never feels it? …anyway… I hope that sparks becomes a nice fire, likes the ones that keeps as warm in wintertimes. Gabriel Saldana 2008-06-09 19:51:50 congratulations Nice to hear that your personal life is getting...

I think I should follow up on Victor’s lament. Yes, we have a Rails application which works fine most of the time… But quite often, throws out a segmentation fault I just have been unable to pin-point. It might be related to rmagick, the only non-pure-Ruby component I am using (and I’m tempted to try minimagick instead, even if I prefer in-memory operations than on-disk, piping an image and slurping it again). Victor came up with an easy script to check the server - but to reduce the impact it has (I was running a single Mongrel instance, which meant,...