Comments for Still Truckin'

Comment on The Other Man by Ari

Ari — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:16 +0000

Really? Here was I thinking about my Dad when I wrote it.
(Although somehow I can’t see him in a gay bar)

I’m also amused by the links WP gave me: “Music Video: Christina Aguilera - Aint No Other Man”

Comment on The Other Man by Anna McM

Anna McM — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:48:17 +0000

Love it! You’ve just described my partner (except for the cooking bit).

Comment on Geeky open thread. by Ari

Ari — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:51:02 +0000

Lynn! Welcome! Hopefully you found something to read that you liked.

I have to admit, I dislike having dozens of extensions too. Tried it in a program once… got tired of it when loading it started to take three minutes.

Yslow sounds pretty cool, especially for someone who actually codes webapps, rather than just doing cosmetic web design. I’m not sure I’d really use it enough though.

Comment on Geeky open thread. by Lynn Prentice

Lynn Prentice — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:28:10 +0000

I have only two on both FF2 and 3 on various machines.

Firebug for debugging, and YSlow which allows me to look at speed issues using firebug. But I’m a boring developer.

Oh and the aussie dictionary.

Comment on “I’m a male feminist and…” by George Darroch

George Darroch — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:46:56 +0000

Ari, indeed. I had just this kind of experience today. If I keep my mouth shut, a female feminist says what I’m thinking better than I would.

Comment on “I’m a male feminist and…” by zANAvAShi

zANAvAShi — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:38:15 +0000

Not sure if I’ll have time this week to drop back and compose a more substantial reply, but in case I don’t…

This was a terrific read Ari and reinforces some semi-organised-opinions I’ve had about this at a subjective level for many years.

Cheers,
Z

Comment on Geeky open thread. by zANAvAShi

zANAvAShi — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:27:08 +0000

Hiya G, I noticed the latest builds of FF3 are gobbling the sodding heck outa my RAM and occasionally the program freezes. Might be a buggy extension, but I’ve been running the same collection for several months now.

FF3 pre builds were hovering pretty steadily around 65Mb RAM for me and I have the very distinct impression this resource hogging thing began happening about 3 days before FF3 final, so it may be a bug artifact that slipped under the full-final bar cos they had to release the final on the day regardless, after announcing the challenge.

I’m gonna test that theory tomorrow by tracking back thru last weeks FF3 nightly builds archives and see if things stabilise. Mind you… compared to my old FF2 builds, which would steadily creep up to 250Mb+ RAM usage over the space of a few hours, things could always be worse hehe.

FWIW, I am still running (and installing) Firefox 1.5 on my older PC’s and old PC’s of friends. Average RAM usage 24Mb (((sigh))) oh those were the days. Maybe you could try this older portable version on your older home PC George?

May the source be with you,
Z

Comment on Geeky open thread. by George Darroch

George Darroch — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:49:19 +0000

Since loading FF3 I’ve had it crash many times, on both my pathetic home computer, and my grunty work computer. I’m going to try and work out why…

Thanks for the advice Zana. I’m not one to gobble the megabytes in any case, whether they be mine or anyone elses, so Fasterfox is going.

Comment on Geeky open thread. by zANavAShi

zANavAShi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:05:00 +0000

Hiya Ari, you’ll have to manually approve my previous reply cos it’s got truckloads of links in it.

George, I have banned Fasterfox from all the web sites I admin cos the prefetching feature on the thing can as much as triple the load on a server (plus it can be pretty abusive to your internet bill if you are being metered by the Mb) and many of the web dev peeps I know are starting to do the same. Just a wee heads up there in case you find yourself unable to access certain web sites.

Cheeries m’dearies,
Zana

Comment on Geeky open thread. by zANavAShi

zANavAShi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:59:11 +0000

Duh, I gave up on the screencap idea for now, but here's my current Firefox 3 extensions list: 0. Firefox Version 3.0.1pre Nightly Builds 1. Maximise Browsing Pane All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.5 (perfect companion to Classic Compact Theme for tightly packing aside your buttons) Classic Compact Options 1.1.2 (extra tweaks for classic compact theme) Classic Compact Theme 3.0.8 (the mini-est FF3 theme which maximises my browsing pane) Searchbar Autosizer 1.3.8 (yeh I know I could chrome tweak this, but this way is more intuitive) Stylish 0.5.7 (lazy geek-gals chrome editor LOL) Toolbar Buttons 0.5.0.5 (a bit bloated, but saves having to install heaps of xtns just cos you need one particular button) 2. Security and Annoyances Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 (caution: don't use filterset-G with this because of huge memory leak ussie) CookieSafe Lite 1.3.9 (very good on-the-fly cookie control with this too) Live IP Address 1.82 (cos I'm a network control freak) NoScript 1.6.9.3 (my fave browser firewall - all sites disabled by default then manually add allow rukes) PDF Download 1.0.1.2 (stop your browser being hijacked by hideous PDF plugins) Session Manager 0.6.1.13 (I couldn't live without this, and it's option to restore closed tabs) ShowIP 0.8.08r14b0251 (also cos I'm a network control freak) Resizeable Textarea 0.1d (not as good as Resizeable Form Fields, but no blogger should be without this!!!) 3. Web Development Toys AutoCopy 0.8 (extends function of Copy Plain Text) Copy Plain Text 0.3.3 (copy text from browser without inheriting code tags) Digger 3.0 (very handy for quick nav of site hierarchy and cached page version) DOM Inspector 2.0.0 (cos it's no longer included by feault in FF3) Firebug 1.2.0b3 (no web developer should be without this) Nightly Tester Tools 2.0.2 (also handy for bumping extns not updated by author yet) Web Developer 1.1.6 (no web developer should be without this either) 4. Blogging and Research DictionarySearch 3.0.0 (must-have extension when composing blog comments hehe) DownloadHelper 3.0.4 (until I can find something that does the job better) FlashGot 1.0.4.2 (don't really use this much, but handy when needed) Image Zoom 0.3.1 (very handy when needed also) Linkification 1.3.4.beta (don't use this much anymore, might dump it on next browser build) NewsFox 1.0.1 (started using this while waiting for Sage to be FF3-ready and now I actually prefer it to Sage!) RCSearch 0.0.1b (until I can find a better multi-search tool) Rewind/Fastforward Buttons 2.1.2008062002 (temporary till NoUn Buttons xtn is more stable) 5. Watching Development Of NoUn Buttons (cos I hate the FF3 unified back/fwd button) PS: I know all these links will freak out your spam detector Ari, so I'll leave ya to manually approve when you have a moment hehe ;)