that one is great, but I didn't appreciate it until I realized that you have to keep hitting CTRL-r to go cycle further back through your history.
What's nice is that it also works in the psql and mysql command-line clients --- which is great, since I always forget the exact grant statement and ip addresses I need to use when setting up new mysql databases.
Vim tab completion works like that. The only reason I don't like it is that it makes it a bit too easy make the wrong choice if you're typing faster than you're thinking.
I realize the 'typing faster than you're thinking' is the real problem here, but the 'strict' bash-style tab completion seems a bit safer.
They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.
This is a great loss. Just the other day, I finished reading 'Consider the Lobster', and I thought every one of those essays was interesting, funny, informative and insightful.
I hope it's not selfish to say that I'm sad that now there will never be a new 'Infinite Jest'.
Note that the underlying autocomplete algorithm is the Firefox 3 algorithm, not the Firefox 2 algorithm. oldbar only affects the presentation of the results.
I like (and use) the oldbar extension, but all it does is change the look of the location bar. It's still 'awesome'.
I wouldn't say I hate it, but I do find it gets in my way fairly often. When I'm developing a website, I'm likely to have a couple of subdomains up for testing: dev.example.com (on my local machine), test.example.com (on the server) and www.example.com (production site).
This really tends to screw with the awesomebar's search algorithm. dev.example.com will most dominate the top of the list, since I'm visiting and reloading pages on it most often. I'm so used to being able to type example.com into the location bar to go to the production site that it catches me at least half the time with the autocomplete, and I find myself on the dev or test site (usually when I'm typing faster than I'm thinking).
I'm getting more and more used to it (and to typing in www), so it's starting to happen less.
Recently, however, I was working on a site that had something like www.example.com (production) and examples.example.com (for testing). This drove me crazy enough that I did most of my work/testing with FF2.
Most of the time I find the awesomebar fairly useful, but I would love to be able to exclude specific sites (or patterns) from the 'rich results'.
Another potential solution to this problem is P2P technology. If widely used, programs like DebTorrent may allow official repositories to distribute metadata and tracker information while decreasing bandwidth costs.
I wonder why Ubuntu doesn't make this a standard option. Is port forwarding too complicated? From what I understand, if the package is not available via bittorrent, DebTorrent degrades to using http.
I am fairly inconvenienced by the fact that my VOIP service has suddenly turned to shit from 4:00 pm to 2:00 am because of a change in Bell's (NOT my ISP's) policies.
Granted, this only happens if I am running bittorrent. However, throttling P2P is one thing, but turning my phone service (which competes directly with Bell's offering) into an echo-y, choppy mess is a whole other ball of wax.
And, yes, I know how to set up QOS on my router to give VOIP priority over BT, but during the throttling period, this doesn't work anymore. That effectively means that during that time I cannot use ANY P2P services, since I haven't yet mastered the ability to predict when other people will call me, or I will urgently need the phone. Furthermore (I could go on all day), it's not even enough to simply stop Bittorrent when someone calls - there seems to be some 'settling time' before my connection gets back to normal, and usually I have to hang up and call back.
I've asked this before: what happens if I need to call 911 suddenly? I know it's probably not the best idea to rely on VOIP for that sort of thing in general, but my phone service has been working great (P2P or not) for the past two years.
And all this without giving any advance warning to the third-party ISPs. They've still yet to explain why that was necessary.
On a more important note (it IS Saturday), what is the largest Canadian-owned brewery right now?
Moosehead.
I don't have much of a point here, really (and Moosehead is a decent enough beer). I certainly don't give a damn about Molson and Labatt. I just thought it was a shame when Sleeman's was bought out by Sapporo -- only because they took Unibroue with them.
I wish the government had stepped in then to block that sale (I'm only kidding. Unibroue is doing quite well under their new ownership).
I've done this for just about every grocery trip for the past two or three years (except for maybe once a month or two when I actually want a few bags for household garbage cans).
You don't have to be an ecowarrior to think that the number of bags that we use (and throw away) is ridiculous. Here in Canada it's something like 10 billion a year (!).
But the 'environmental' aspect of it is only part of it. Frankly, I stopped taking bags from the grocery store mostly just because I was sick of having so many of the damn things that I would never use. But once I started, I realized just how more convenient it is to have a larger sturdy bag (or bags, usually) that I can throw over my shoulder instead of a dozen or so flimsy plastic ones that are uncomfortable to carry.
Even when I'm doing a larger shopping run with a car (about half the time over the winter) it's still a hell of a lot easier to carry two big blue ikea bags to the kitchen.
Over these past 3 years I've noticed a huge shift in attitudes about the whole thing. It used to be that I'd have to practically shove the grocery bagboy out of the way and get into a discussion about why I didn't want their bags. Now it seems like at least a third of people bring their own bags, and most stores give a 5 cent discount for it (yay. 5 cents).
Here's the latest post from Rocky (from Teksavvy) on the relevant dslreports thread (on page 26!) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20176991-Teksavvys-throttling-now-Just-a-vent-nothing-is-needed~start=500
Ok... Here's the deal...
They're now openly acknowledging that they are rolling out a full throttling process. They plan to have things fully throttled by April 7th. All BT and P2P traffic will be affected.
They claim they are allowed to do so according to their Terms and Services under the Fair Usage Policy in the tariffed contracts... We'll be looking into this shortly.
The meeting was with Sales and Product Management. They will be preparing a formal letter before end of week.
In the meantime, we (many other ISPs) are going to prepare as well... I guess the high road is the path taken in this case.
Spread the word one and all as this topic needs to reach every level possible... There's now officially an issue and action must be taken by all if we're to rectify things.
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That's exactly what I did, expecting things to be more or less simple. For whatever reason, however, they weren't.
When the time came for my number to switch over and my dry dsl to activate... nothing happened. Both Teksavvy and Vonage had zero information from Bell as to why nothing was happening, and Bell treated me like I was committing treason.
All sorts of wacky things happened then. Bell apparently decided that they needed to rewire my house, and scheduled a time for a technician to come over. They, of course, neglected to tell me about it. I only found out when I came home to a 'we were here to fix your phone, where were you?' note, with a reference number and Bell's 1-800 number written on it.
You would absolutely not believe how many bell sales reps I went through before any of them would even enter this reference number into the computer. One girl actually started yelling at me, saying that I wasn't a bell customer anymore and shouldn't be calling that number (yes, the number on the note that they left me), before she 'accidentally' hung up on me.
Luckily, when I called back I got a competent, sympathetic technician who actually tried to solve my problem. He even tried to connect me to a 'senior dsl specialist', but after a few more days of talking to her voice mail, I gave up, called Bell and told them to 'cancel my account right fucking now'.
Since then, I really dislike the fact that even a portion of the monthly DSL cost that I pay to Teksavvy will still end up in Bell's hands. I don't have much love for Videotron, but if Teksavvy resold cable service, I might just consider it just cut myself off completely from Bell.
I was actually considering dropping my Bell telephone number to move completely to voip at Teksavvy after I found Bell adding things to my phone bill that I never asked for. Now to go to voip would require me to get dry DSL service from Teksavvy and probably end up paying more per month than I could for a basic phone bill but I'm seriously considering it just to avoid having to talk to Bell any more. I'm also a very happy teksavvy customer, who moved to dry dsl + voip after bell pissed me off one too many times (By unilaterally, without notice adding an extra year of contract to my cell phone plan. Don't get me started...).
Since the service and support from teksavvy is so great (not that I often need support), I immediately asked them about their voip plans, and the teksavvy rep actually recommended against using their own voip service, saying it wasn't yet reliable enough (this was about 2 years ago, the situation might have improved). That level of customer service and honesty is what makes teksavvy so great.
But I digress... I ended up switching to a dry line and vonage. The big piece of advice that I can offer you is to give up on keeping your phone number. It shouldn't be a problem, but the combination of canceling your number (to move to a dry line) and canceling your number (to transfer it to the voip) puts you into some sort of bureaucratic catch-22 situation.
Actually it felt more like a Kafka novel. I spent almost two weeks arguing with bell about it -- with each call having to re-explain the situation to a new clueless and pissy telemarketer.
If you can figure out how to transfer your number AND switch to a dry dsl line at the same time, kudos to you.
Aside from that... once I got my router setup with a good voip-friendly firmware, I haven't had a single problem with my setup, and would recommend it to anyone.
um, I know you're trolling, but of course the number of iPhone users will vastly exceed the number of Linux users in their web statistics... That's the point of the article!
I know it's short on details, but as I understand it, Linux (or other) users will be able to pull DRM-free content by telling their browser to identify itself as an iPhone. So the real irony might be that if enough people want the content free of DRM, their web logs may eventually show a huge number of 'iPhone users'.
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I second that. My Friend showed me the demo, and my son loved it. I'll be buying the ($20) full version shortly.
that one is great, but I didn't appreciate it until I realized that you have to keep hitting CTRL-r to go cycle further back through your history.
What's nice is that it also works in the psql and mysql command-line clients --- which is great, since I always forget the exact grant statement and ip addresses I need to use when setting up new mysql databases.
and ~/.ssh/config
Vim tab completion works like that. The only reason I don't like it is that it makes it a bit too easy make the wrong choice if you're typing faster than you're thinking.
I realize the 'typing faster than you're thinking' is the real problem here, but the 'strict' bash-style tab completion seems a bit safer.
They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.
This is a great loss. Just the other day, I finished reading 'Consider the Lobster', and I thought every one of those essays was interesting, funny, informative and insightful.
I hope it's not selfish to say that I'm sad that now there will never be a new 'Infinite Jest'.
If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute.
I proudly sport my SomaFM t-shirt.
If I buy another one, is the $50 going to go straight to the RIAA?
I thought they were 'Basket Full of Puppies' now.
from the add-on page you link to:
Note that the underlying autocomplete algorithm is the Firefox 3 algorithm, not the Firefox 2 algorithm. oldbar only affects the presentation of the results.
I like (and use) the oldbar extension, but all it does is change the look of the location bar. It's still 'awesome'.
I wouldn't say I hate it, but I do find it gets in my way fairly often.
When I'm developing a website, I'm likely to have a couple of subdomains up for testing: dev.example.com (on my local machine), test.example.com (on the server) and www.example.com (production site).
This really tends to screw with the awesomebar's search algorithm.
dev.example.com will most dominate the top of the list, since I'm visiting and reloading pages on it most often. I'm so used to being able to type example.com into the location bar to go to the production site that it catches me at least half the time with the autocomplete, and I find myself on the dev or test site (usually when I'm typing faster than I'm thinking).
I'm getting more and more used to it (and to typing in www), so it's starting to happen less.
Recently, however, I was working on a site that had something like www.example.com (production) and examples.example.com (for testing). This drove me crazy enough that I did most of my work/testing with FF2.
Most of the time I find the awesomebar fairly useful, but I would love to be able to exclude specific sites (or patterns) from the 'rich results'.
I'm keeping my eye on koffice.
from the cert overview:
Another potential solution to this problem is P2P technology. If widely used, programs like DebTorrent may allow official repositories to distribute metadata and tracker information while decreasing bandwidth costs.
I wonder why Ubuntu doesn't make this a standard option. Is port forwarding too complicated? From what I understand, if the package is not available via bittorrent, DebTorrent degrades to using http.
That assumes that there some limit to the supply of easily excitable, childish people out there.
I haven't actually tried this yet, but I got all excited when I saw it: firebug lite
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE is really useful for that sort of thing, also.
I am fairly inconvenienced by the fact that my VOIP service has suddenly turned to shit from 4:00 pm to 2:00 am because of a change in Bell's (NOT my ISP's) policies.
Granted, this only happens if I am running bittorrent. However, throttling P2P is one thing, but turning my phone service (which competes directly with Bell's offering) into an echo-y, choppy mess is a whole other ball of wax.
And, yes, I know how to set up QOS on my router to give VOIP priority over BT, but during the throttling period, this doesn't work anymore. That effectively means that during that time I cannot use ANY P2P services, since I haven't yet mastered the ability to predict when other people will call me, or I will urgently need the phone. Furthermore (I could go on all day), it's not even enough to simply stop Bittorrent when someone calls - there seems to be some 'settling time' before my connection gets back to normal, and usually I have to hang up and call back.
I've asked this before: what happens if I need to call 911 suddenly? I know it's probably not the best idea to rely on VOIP for that sort of thing in general, but my phone service has been working great (P2P or not) for the past two years.
And all this without giving any advance warning to the third-party ISPs. They've still yet to explain why that was necessary.
On a more important note (it IS Saturday), what is the largest Canadian-owned brewery right now?
Moosehead.
I don't have much of a point here, really (and Moosehead is a decent enough beer).
I certainly don't give a damn about Molson and Labatt.
I just thought it was a shame when Sleeman's was bought out by Sapporo -- only because they took Unibroue with them.
I wish the government had stepped in then to block that sale (I'm only kidding. Unibroue is doing quite well under their new ownership).
Or just bring your own bag(s).
I've done this for just about every grocery trip for the past two or three years (except for maybe once a month or two when I actually want a few bags for household garbage cans).
You don't have to be an ecowarrior to think that the number of bags that we use (and throw away) is ridiculous. Here in Canada it's something like 10 billion a year (!).
But the 'environmental' aspect of it is only part of it. Frankly, I stopped taking bags from the grocery store mostly just because I was sick of having so many of the damn things that I would never use. But once I started, I realized just how more convenient it is to have a larger sturdy bag (or bags, usually) that I can throw over my shoulder instead of a dozen or so flimsy plastic ones that are uncomfortable to carry.
Even when I'm doing a larger shopping run with a car (about half the time over the winter) it's still a hell of a lot easier to carry two big blue ikea bags to the kitchen.
Over these past 3 years I've noticed a huge shift in attitudes about the whole thing. It used to be that I'd have to practically shove the grocery bagboy out of the way and get into a discussion about why I didn't want their bags. Now it seems like at least a third of people bring their own bags, and most stores give a 5 cent discount for it (yay. 5 cents).
That's exactly what I did, expecting things to be more or less simple.
For whatever reason, however, they weren't.
When the time came for my number to switch over and my dry dsl to activate... nothing happened.
Both Teksavvy and Vonage had zero information from Bell as to why nothing was happening, and Bell treated me like I was committing treason.
All sorts of wacky things happened then. Bell apparently decided that they needed to rewire my house, and scheduled a time for a technician to come over.
They, of course, neglected to tell me about it. I only found out when I came home to a 'we were here to fix your phone, where were you?' note, with a reference number and Bell's 1-800 number written on it.
You would absolutely not believe how many bell sales reps I went through before any of them would even enter this reference number into the computer.
One girl actually started yelling at me, saying that I wasn't a bell customer anymore and shouldn't be calling that number (yes, the number on the note that they left me), before she 'accidentally' hung up on me.
Luckily, when I called back I got a competent, sympathetic technician who actually tried to solve my problem. He even tried to connect me to a 'senior dsl specialist', but after a few more days of talking to her voice mail, I gave up, called Bell and told them to 'cancel my account right fucking now'.
Since then, I really dislike the fact that even a portion of the monthly DSL cost that I pay to Teksavvy will still end up in Bell's hands.
I don't have much love for Videotron, but if Teksavvy resold cable service, I might just consider it just cut myself off completely from Bell.
Since the service and support from teksavvy is so great (not that I often need support), I immediately asked them about their voip plans, and the teksavvy rep actually recommended against using their own voip service, saying it wasn't yet reliable enough (this was about 2 years ago, the situation might have improved).
That level of customer service and honesty is what makes teksavvy so great.
But I digress... I ended up switching to a dry line and vonage. The big piece of advice that I can offer you is to give up on keeping your phone number. It shouldn't be a problem, but the combination of canceling your number (to move to a dry line) and canceling your number (to transfer it to the voip) puts you into some sort of bureaucratic catch-22 situation.
Actually it felt more like a Kafka novel. I spent almost two weeks arguing with bell about it -- with each call having to re-explain the situation to a new clueless and pissy telemarketer.
If you can figure out how to transfer your number AND switch to a dry dsl line at the same time, kudos to you.
Aside from that... once I got my router setup with a good voip-friendly firmware, I haven't had a single problem with my setup, and would recommend it to anyone.
um, I know you're trolling, but of course the number of iPhone users will vastly exceed the number of Linux users in their web statistics...
That's the point of the article!
I know it's short on details, but as I understand it, Linux (or other) users will be able to pull DRM-free content by telling their browser to identify itself as an iPhone.
So the real irony might be that if enough people want the content free of DRM, their web logs may eventually show a huge number of 'iPhone users'.
s/ innocent person/yone/