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DXMachina - Dec 28, 2006 3:46:42 am PST #9920 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I've found that Firefox sometimes decided that links aren't safe. Usually it gives me a bar across right below the tabs telling me so, like when it blocks popups.

That happens (although I seem to have lost the bar on my Firefox 1.5 install at home), and the adblock extension will disable links as well.

Is there some absurdly simple way to change the default bookmark folder into which new bookmarks are, err, foldered? In Firefox?

Not particularly simple, but not super difficult, either: [link]


Gudanov - Dec 28, 2006 5:48:05 am PST #9921 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Well, I wasn't using a theme, and I did upgrade to 2.0.0.1, and it's unfortunately still happening.

You could use Opera if Firefox is not running very well. I like Firefox better, but I can't think of a good reason why. Opera is a really good browser.

I think that iTunes for Windows has a good shot of running on Kubuntu. I don't use iTunes, so I don't know by personal experience.


tommyrot - Dec 28, 2006 6:18:04 am PST #9922 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Hey Gud (or anyone else) - In a car, where would the negative terminal battery cable typically attach to? The engine block? The frame?

I think I might have to jack the car up in order to attach a new cable. (This is for my '85 LTD.)


dcp - Dec 28, 2006 6:26:48 am PST #9923 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

The frame.


DXMachina - Dec 28, 2006 6:27:50 am PST #9924 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I vote frame, too.


esse - Dec 28, 2006 6:27:55 am PST #9925 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I used opera for about three years before Firefox came out and was stable enough that I was willing to look at switching. Now that I've gone the way of extensions, I don't know if I'd go back--a big factor of the switch was how much of my resources Opera commanded, but really, the way I use it, Firefox is just as bad about it now.

If I right click on the bar, I can choose to turn the links back on. I'm not sure why this happens some times and not others, or why the bar seems to be invisibile until the point where I'm tearing my hair out. Perhaps something can be done with Preferences?

No, though I know what you're talking about--if it was that and not, as I think it might be, an errant registry value, I'd be able to load buffistas. Or google. It's getting nothing at all, after it had been loading everything fine.

I was thinking, Gud, of double-booting, and hanging on to Windows mostly for iTunes. I haven't seen anything to suggest that iTunes would run, though if it did, it would be awesome.


Gudanov - Dec 28, 2006 6:56:47 am PST #9926 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

I'd say frame too.

Here is a link to the Wine entry on iTunes.

[link]

Sounds a bit complicated. Apparently some people have been able to get authorization to work too as there is a screen shot and a comment to that effect. Doesn't sound like it runs great.


tommyrot - Dec 28, 2006 7:33:28 am PST #9927 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'd say frame too.

It turned out to be the engine block and frame. Which means I need a vice and chisel to get the clamp (that attaches to the frame) off the old cable, strip a section of the new cable (near the battery) and put the clamp on there, or else buy some sort of clampy thing for this purpose. The cable terminates on the block, so that part is just a simple bolt.

Oh well. For now I got the old cable to work. (In addition to being all old and stuff, the battery terminal clamp is now broke where the bolt goes through it.)


sarameg - Dec 28, 2006 2:25:23 pm PST #9928 of 10003

Well, I finally managed to reset my password. Now certain applications keep asking me for a keychain password and I keep cancelling until they go away and I can keep using the app. I swear to god, I hate computers.


Kevin - Dec 29, 2006 1:51:16 am PST #9929 of 10003
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

No, computers hate you, sarameg :) Here's the fix: [link]