Dream Theater’s latest album Black Clouds & Silver Linings continues their musical evolution brilliantly and might be their best work melodically to date. Vocal layers are much thicker (just the way I like it) with Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci lending their voices to the mix more than I can remember on any previous album. They also have struck a very satisfying balance between crazy instrumentals and truly melodic figures....
Apple recently released Safari 4. Being the model geek, I decided to give it a spin – and I liked what I saw. But here’s the problem: at this point I have a deeply ingrained web browsing workflow. Whether it’s a habit or a plugin, there are certain things that are this point muscle memory (and for a good reason, because it usually is the most efficient). Caveat #1 – Without Firebug, nothing replaces Firefox for web development....
What a week. June is going to be rough. I we can get to the 4th of July weekend without permanent scarring, that will be a heroic accomplishment. So we managed to find a dog friendly apartment complex in Palo Alto. It’s a big complex right next to Greer park (next to 101), so I think we really lucked out on that front. It still means moving (basically our fifth in two years) and committing to something without knowing all the evolving job details....
What a rough weekend. Ann and I are both looking for jobs at this point. Quite a significant stress level right there. Then on Friday we got a notice from our landlord that he needs to move into our apartment, and that we have two months to find a new place. Let’s just say our stress level was ridiculous. This was all compounded by Wolfi having a bout with ticks that we had to clean and deal with....
Please give us a mouse with two freaking buttons! This right-click success rate of 50% is annoying the crap out of me. I pulled out my old crappy Belkin travel mouse and you know what? When I want to right click now? I just press the right mouse button and what do you know?! It works every freaking time! I know design means a lot to you – so go ahead and design a great “actual” two button mouse....
After weeks and weeks of rumors, ABC announced they would renew Castle for another season and Fox agreed to pick up Dollhouse (though still sticking it in the “where shows go to die” Friday night time slot). Unfortunately, Terminator - The Sarah Conner Chronicles will not be picked up after a “fragmented” two season run surrounding the writer’s strike. Castle has been the best show on TV this spring, hands down....
If you need to install linux on a laptop, choose Ubuntu over the other derivations. There is simply more time and people working on the Gnome version of Ubuntu versus the KDE or Fluxbox derivations. When I installed Kubuntu 09.04 (Jaunty) things weren’t “just working” like they do on my desktop. Having always preferred KDE to Gnome, I have never really tried the pure “Ubuntu” experience. I have to say, especially for laptops, the experience is radically different and ultimately superior....
Kubuntu 09.04 (Jaunty) has been an absolute pleasure to use on my home desktop. Everything just works, and works really well. I happen to choose an Nvidia graphics card when I put it together. Turns out that was a very good decision. Lets turn to my laptop (a Thinkpad T42). It has an ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 inside. There is a semi decent open source driver implementation that it used by default....
My normal modus operandi is to heavily use tabs with Konsole. My strategy gets pretty hectic when you have a Konsole per machine with multiple tabs, trying to juggle everything… It’s basically reached it’s scalability threshold. I’m hoping injecting GNU Screen into my workflow will simplify things a little bit (though I’m not completely sold yet). But what I need a quick reference for all the shortcuts, which is where this page comes in....
If you are seeing the following error: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY) [nsIDocShellHistory.useGlobalHistory]" nsresult: "0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: prepareForStartup :: line 764" data: no] Symptoms: When you start firefox, it doesn’t take you to your home page. Your home button doesn’t work or takes you to a different site. Try the following: Go to your profile directory ($HOME/.mozilla/firefox/99fjsklfs.default) mv or delete places....