Re: Gmail no longer loads on Firefox

On 1/1/11 10:09 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > This morning, I tried to load gmail on Firefox (firefox.x86_64 > 3.6.13-1.fc14) > I ended up loading in on Chrome. The message is: > This is taking longer than usual. *Try reloading the page* >

Re: Gmail no longer loads on Firefox solved

>> Speaking of bad plugins. I've been using Firefox Sync (formerly >> weave) to keep my bookmarks synchronized across multiple computers. >> Version 1.6.1 came out recently and it has completely >> screwed up my bookmarks. Lost some, duplicated others on multiple >> computers. For now, I've re

Re: Software development models, pair programming, agile, team rooms, etc.

> One of the things I love about the agile group I'm on the board of > (http://www.agilebazaar.org (soon to be http://www.agilenewengland.org)) > is that we are officially flavor-agnostic, and feel that different > environments require different solutions. So I don't feel "Thou Shalt > Pair Progr

Re: keyboard trends

> Loud clicky keys might be fine for a desktop keyboard, but they're a > terrible idea for a laptop that is likely to be used in a crowded room. I have to admit I even find clicky keys annoying when others are using them in the same office space as mine. I haven't used a Microsoft Natural styl

Re: Looking for possible options to NetApp storage

I started a good thread on this subject probably back in the spring or summer. There were lots of great replies to it. I'd check the archives for details. May have been to bblisa... Ian ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mai

Re: Lightweight network monitoring program

On 2/28/11 10:18 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > One of my systems at work tends to drop its network connection. What I > need is a network monitoring tool. Certainly nagios will do the job, but > I'm looking for something more light weight that will simply check a > list of hosts periodically. I woul

Re: Problem have Apache display the "directory listing"

On 3/27/11 11:48 AM, stephen goldman wrote: > I wish to create a web site I can copy software from. Later wish to > restrict access to an htpasswd file. > Having trouble configuring apache to display directory listing from the > web site. > The directory's path in shared 755 - an index.

Re: Computer died

On 4/3/11 12:59 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I read online that 1. Disconnect the 24 pin connector from the MB > 2. Short out pins 15 (gnd) anbd 16(power on). > 3. Test pins with voltages. > In any case with the power supply connected to the MB I was getting > nothing, not even a fan. The article I

Re: Linux-ish Laptop Question

quoted $1500 to replace (out of warranty, no accident insurance). $100 for parts (and DIY) or $250 for 3rd party mail-in repair -- looks like I'll be buying some small star-drive screwdrivers. Ian -- Ian Stokes-Rees, PhD W: http://hkl.hms.harvard.edu ijsto...@hkl.

Re: Speaking of on-line/cloud storage... Wuala

On 4/23/11 10:04 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On the other hand, Wuala offers substantially better privacy and security > than Dropbox. Can someone either give the 30 second version of security shortcomings in Dropbox, or point me to something which describes this? I'm interested in understandin

Re: All-in-one touch screen computers

>> Would installing Linux on such a machine take away most of the advantage >> to the touch screen? (These machines typically come bundled with things >> like photo viewing apps and the like that are purposely designed for >> touch screen interaction.) >> >> Anyone tried Linux on one of these? > I

Re: apache/dns question?

On 5/24/11 7:51 AM, Myrle Francis wrote: > ello all and thank you in advance. (also sorry GAF, I sent you this question > directly on accident :) ) > > > I have learned to set up apache to that each user can have their own webpage > (ie http://mafmanet.us/~user1,http://mafmanet.us/~user2 etc) >

Re: [Discuss] Good hosting service for web application

I use webfaction. Good support, ability to configure things through the web i/f or do custom apache config on the command line. $10/month. I specifically did *not* want to have to deal with OS updates myself or installing and maintaining the full LAMP stack I was going to be using. Ian

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

FF5 can be a huge memory hog. I stick with it because I make heavy use of the extensions, however I am constantly experimenting to find out which extensions may be causing the extreme memory consumption and constant CPU load (assuming it isn't just JS/AJAX automated content reload/refresh, or

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

On 7/21/11 12:57 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > Rich Braun wrote: >> I can make it go away for that short amount of time by killing >> and restarting the browser, but a day later Firefox is /always/ painfully >> slow >> -- thrashing through memory (not disk) in some inefficient piece of core >> code. >

Re: [Discuss] Python script question

On Wed Aug 3 10:44:43 2011, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:28:20AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> A coworker of mine has a Python script set up as: >> #! $PATH_TO_PYTHON/python Another option is to simply have the version of python you want to be at the head of the system path

Re: [Discuss] 30% Apple

On 8/11/11 9:41 AM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:48:46PM -0500, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: >> As soon as I heard about Apple's 30% take and price-matched inside/outside >> app purchases, I figured Amazon must have a roomful of coders trying to >> build Kindle Reader as an HTML 5

Re: [Discuss] disk space analysis tools

And a few more: multi-platform GUI-based: jDiskReport for a java-based disk analyzer. I've also written my own tool for doing this (single Python script): https://github.com/ijstokes/duscan This had the advantage of being runnable from a cron job and the results were always available to me (inc

Re: [Discuss] Virtual hosting provider (me too)

On Fri Oct 28 14:28:13 2011, Jack Coats wrote: > My old friend with the ISP used to keep > a logged on computer at home. If you called support in the middle of the > night, it might take him 2 or 3 minutes to get online and wakeup enough > to use a keyboard, but you got the guy that was VERY INT

Re: [Discuss] Google Contacts on Web and Android

While people are on the subject of contact management and synchronization, can anyone suggest a good way to 1) remove duplicates and 2) keep multiple contact lists synchronized and integrated? Best I've seen is "motoblur" on certain Motorola Android phones, but I have an LG Android (2.3). I a