Technology

One of my favorite tools just went one point oh! - An oh what an upgrade! Firebug went from totally cool, to insanely great - if you haven’t upgaded already then hurry up, if you haven’t installed it, the do it - you won’t regret it! It has even obsoleted a couple of other plugins as you can now do inline editing of CSS and lots of other cool stuff! For users of lesser browsers, there is even a lite version so they can develop with Firebug and use all the cool features on their development site that we can use on any site! Oh… did it forget to mention it is free ?

For a long time I have been using lori - Life of request info with much joy. - Then came Firefox 2.0 … Nice browser, but lori stopped working… :-( Today I really needed it, so I unpacked it and changed the max version from 1.5 to 2.0, and now it works again :-) You can download it here, but I can’t guaranty it won’t blow up you your computer, but it works for me.

I have great news for all you new Mac convertiees who dislike Apples Terminal.app for one reason or another. ITerm has just been released in version 0.9.0

All new *Books from Apple has a build in motion sensor that is there protect the harddrive for harm, should you descide to hurl your *Book through the room. Some clever guys wrote a piece of software that that allows you to use the sensor to perform actions in DesktopManager like “go to the next desktop”. Some other clever guys wrote another piece of software that does the same for VirtueDesktops, which is a much cooler fork of DesktopManager and my perfered virtual desktop program. Now that is cool! =)

Kevin Kelly from Wired magazine has written an article about quantum mechanic Seth Lloyd who says “The universe is one giant, hackable computer.” - Let’s hope it’s not running Windows.

I really dig Apple’s products, they look nice, they feel nice, they even work nice… But when things break, Apple sometimes sucks… I broke my arrow down key on my almost shinny new PowerBook, guess I read too much mail. I walked up to Apple’s booth on LinuxForum last saturday, and asked them how to get this fixed as easy as possible - I really just need the arrow down key - and they said: “You must send it in for repairs, we’ll change the entire keyboard”. How stupid is that? - I couldn’t even buy the missing key, and I can’t live with out my laptop as it is my main workstation for both $work and $home. Come on Apple, you can do better than that!

Right now i am sitting in auditorium #1, listening to Dan Klein on Perfect Data in an Imperfect World. Great fun, and quite interesting! All in all it has been a great day here at LinuxForum.

I needed a cute countdown timer for my website, so I created one. You can download it here!

I have decided to use Firefox as my main browser for a little while

I finally got NSI to fix the glue record for ns.hashbang.org, so now everything should work as it should! - Sorry for the downtime. The whole thing is now running on 4 machines, with two more to be added shortly.