Friday, October 21, 2005 

Flock Post Test

Weell then... let's just see how this works shall we?

Today I am using a new firefox/mozilla/gecko based browser my bud Eric pointed me at called Flock. Hopefully I won't get fired while trying to test/configure this thing. If it works... I'll be impressed. It's supposed to (basically) be firefox with a built in blog editor, websharing.... editor (?) and some other stuff (editor?). Why this couldn't be incorporated as an extension, and therefore making it much easier on the team... (editor?) or maybe not I'm not sure. Anyway... if it works it'll be cool. Needs a mouse gesture extension.. but it appears as though there may be some simple ways that you can convert firefox extensions over to Flock... as I'm using Adblock (with whitelisting) and WeatherFox.. or whatever they've decided to call it this week.

Oh yeah.. they need some friggin themes. (:

So... for testing sake.... let's try adding a photo:

http://morphium.org/~bursar/images/John/John2.jpg

Allrighty then... so that should work.. we'll see. What I don't like.. is that I can't upload to flickr from here... yet. I think it says that I can or will be able to in the future.. I'll figure that out later. All I know is that my friend Eric sent this link to me and now I have a friggin del.icio.us account or whatever.. and thats how Flock stores your favorites... which is not a new idea but pretty cool anyway.

I'm out.

PaX


Edit: Sweet.. the post... er post editor works as well.. or I think it does. Here's a link to download flock and try it out: http://www.flock.com/developer/


Lates.

Ok.. so not so lates.. here is yet another edit:

allinonegest017-UnauthFlock-Edition.xpi


There's a flock compatible (untested really) all-in-one-gestures extension for flock if you're interested. Mostly you just need to add:

...to the install.rdf file within the .xpi file itself and you're good to go.

Yes.. that's right.. its an image... because apparently there isn't or I don't know how to use a bbcode-like tag such as that will tell browsers and blogger alike to leave my text the fsck alone so that I can just post it straight up... even removing formatting didn't do it for me... likely because of the <>... ugh.. so I took a screenie.

BAH.

Oh well.. it still works pretty damn well and its a beta product.


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10/21/2005 09:33:00 AM | |

Wednesday, October 12, 2005 

Damnit... and it's only 2 weeks olde....

Look at this crap... *sigh*


2005 iBooks losing Airport under network load

So I just picked up my new Summer '05 iBook a couple of weeks ago.... or rather it was sent to me. Seems there were a couple of revisions on the logic board and now theres an issue with maxed out RAM and loss of wireless activity.
Thankfully I haven't (knock on wood) had to deal with this in a real world situation yet, but I was able to reproduce the issue several times. ARGH.
You know.. ya spend the dough.. you read the reviews... things are happy... then this happens... its like that line from Brain Candy™:
My ah-mother used to zing a zong to me when I was little baby, it goes a-like dis "Life is short, life is shit and then you die".... it sounds better in it's native Croatian...
Anyway... it's finally getting around to some of the larger 'Mac' news sites.. some of which Apple reads and knows may affect its profits... so I'm hoping for a fix soon.
The tech information that I've theorized is thus: These iBooks are the first to be able to use so much RAM (thats one), the logic board has been revised and the wireless card has been embedded on the logic board itself (that motherboard for everyone but mac users), it only seems to happen when you're plugged into the wall: Therefore it's a voltage issue. Not to mention that always and forever the wireless card and RAM slots have been directly next to each other. It happens when you're maxxing out your ram with big ram hoggin' applications and transfering large files over the wireless.
I suspect there will be either A) a firmware revision - what this will mean is that voltage to either the RAM will be dropped (making the ram essentially slower) or cut power to the wireless card (meaning the sphere of signal reception will be smaller). This solution sucks... but it's likely the most efficient for Apple. B) a firm recall of these iBooks where they add an additional capacitor, making sure that regardless of how much energy the wireless or the ram is using, they will each have enough and both will be "Strong like bull."
So.. anyway... I have a cool weekend ahead I think.. if everything works out and one particular person doesn't get their panties all bunched up and sandy. I could use it.... it's been rough on me lately... "What has?" you ask? .... you name it.

Here's some resources for you cunning bastards... that's right... I know you're out there...
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/524009175731
http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/10/10/ibook.ram.problems/
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@306.dVG3aJYYTbd.3@.68b7c1b7
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20051012074357457

Ok... I'm out -
Pax

10/12/2005 12:07:00 PM | |

Thursday, October 06, 2005 

On the subject of my birthday.

Time to be a bit selfish and express my frustration about the events that seem at least at this moment to cling to the time around my birthday.

Well.. here it comes again. And as the continuance of my cursed birthdays since I was thirteen, I will be accompanying my girlfriend to Ft. Worth to say good bye to her grandmother. When I was thirteen I had planned a big birthday party, I'm not going to elaborate, it would have been a good one. However, I was instead required to help celebrate the life of my own grandmother, flying up to Illinois to do so. The plane ride back has definately left an impact on me. A child, riding in the seat in front of me and apparently lacking potty training, let loose in his seat. This caused the fluid to cascade down on to my leg... The father didn't even say anything to the stewardess, leaving the discovery to the next person to take the seat. I told the steward person (?) and I'm sure they cardoned it off or something at least.
(update)
Well I have returned. I was able to be a paul bearer for the service, which was very nice. Good turnout, alot of people were there. That much of it reminded me of the funeral for my last grandmother only last August. So many people showed up... it's surprising... well I guess not. I hope that I have as many people show up for me.
So it turns out that my birthdate is a pretty cursed one. Even this year not only was I putting someone to rest on my bday but there was an earthquake that wiped out some few hundred thousand people.
So... I figured.. lets take a look at my birthdate through the years. Here's a list of some of the terrible events that occurred on this day in history from oldest to most recent:
  • October 8, 314 Battle at Cibalae: emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius
  • October 8, 876 Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare
  • October 8, 1690 Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
  • October 8, 1775 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army
  • October 8, 1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
  • October 8, 1822 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
  • October 8, 1856 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War
  • October 8, 1865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
  • October 8, 1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation
  • October 8, 1871 Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin
  • October 8, 1912 Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
  • October 8, 1915 Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed
  • October 8, 1918 Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
  • October 8, 1939 Germany annexes Western Poland
  • October 8, 1940 German troops occupies Romania
  • October 8, 1941 Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built
  • October 8, 1942 Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
  • October 8, 1946 Milt plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
  • October 8, 1952 Chinese offensive in Korea
  • October 8, 1952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
  • October 8, 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • October 8, 1979 Country Music Association Award:[Approx]
  • October 8, 1980 Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital
  • October 8, 1988 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
  • October 8, 1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
  • October 8, 1993 Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"
Here are some of the good things:
  • October 8, 1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago
  • October 8, 1986 RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
So yeah.. I'm not feeling so hot at this very moment. I'm glad I was able to help my girlfriend and her family as much as I could and I would do it again in a heartbeat if it becomes necessary.

10/06/2005 04:41:00 PM | |