Author Archives: Donncha

Damn, I’m on to my third keyboard in as many years. Water does strange things to them and you can’t just unplug PS/2 keyboards and plug another in. Uptime of 103 days too. *sob*

If you edit your Blogger site (or any other html) in Mozilla or a browser using the Mozilla engine then you may run into trouble with comments in textareas: Bug 133044 covers this issue and explains why my template screws up when I use Galeon to edit it. It’s also appeared as a problem at work so I’ll have to go back to Netscape for a few things.

There’s going to be a cleanup at RKO. Check the URL for lots of tunes that are going to disappear on June 1st!
I found this excellent remix of the Creatures Torture Chamber tune there.
UPDATE: He’s getting rid of some excellent tunes!

Do you run a mainstram website? Check your logfiles. Over the past 2 months Mozilla (aka Netscape 6) has made an appearance on the top 15 browsers list on the site where I work. 1%, 3% and this month so far it’s at 4% this month! Our’s is a non-techie futures site so I presume the people using Mozilla aren’t techies on the bleeding edge of technology. Great!

I found Solbeam.com a few minutes ago. It seems to be a site about the travels of the author. There’s an excellent page on packing which’ll come in handy. I know Martina is going to be very interested in this!

Dave picked up on the disturbances in Dublin I reported a few days ago. I’m glad to see a popular weblog run with the story and provide links to more information about it.

Courtesy of Daves Picks comes CSS browser support: basic concepts which I must delve into later.

It’s hard to find information on digital equipment such as Sharp WD250 camcorder. A lot of it seems to be sponsored adverts/information without user comment. Now’s my chance to dilute their message. I bought a Sharp WD250 camcorder last February. It’s a nice camera, has 26X optical zoom, uses mini DV tapes, DV-out.. Problem was, the picture quality and sound got distorted a lot! At times the picture looked like it had blocks of scrambled images across it, something I’ve only seen in mpeg videos, then the sound would go silent and crackle intermittently. I brought it back to the shop and I expect to get it back on Thursday or Friday hopefully. I’ll post more news later.

If you’re using Linux and need to find the spelling for a word, just type “look [start of word]” and it’ll print a list of alternatives. It’s actually for displaying “lines beginning with a given string” but by default it uses the dictionary file! Guess who wasn’t sure how to spell “intermittently”?

Using Hdparm I found out that my harddrive only supports up to 8sectors/interrupt (-m8, no -m16 or 32).. I knew this computer was cheap 😐 There might be something in the BIOS to change that but my uptime just hit 100 days so I want to keep that! I did enable 32 bit access (-c1), dma was already enabled (-d1) and the change to 32 bit access almost doubled the score I got from buffered reads (1.7MB/s to 3.0MB/s – I’m running X, Galeon and Kmail too..)
The computer is noticably more responsive! More info available on Google.

It was Mother’s Day in the USA, Australia and somewhere else (according to my Far Side calender), User Friendly had a nice cartoon that struck a chord with me. *sigh*