From: Geoff Richards Date: 18:32 on 28 Jul 2006 Subject: Firefox and/or Flash "blah blah unresponsive... Do you want to abort this script? [OK]" It doesn't seem willing to accept that it might not be OK with me to refuse to run the bloody thing.
From: Geoff Richards
Date: 12:33 on 04 May 2005
Subject: firefox, it's a fecking text area
I haven't been able to work out how to get Firefox into this most
special of modes, but sometimes, very occasonally, it enhances my
wiki-editing experience by providing an impromtu search facility
in the text area.
Which would be handy, if it wasn't initiated by the '/' key.
Which funnily enough I sometimes want to type. Now, I can see how
it might have got confused about when to recognise '/' and pop
up the (normally welcome) little search bar, but what the hell does
it think it's doing when the single quote key does the same thing?
There must be some sort of XUL keybinding, only enabled under 'special'
conditions, which is bound to a function like this:
void
fuckadoodledoo (char c)
{
textarea.insert(c);
if (c == '/' || c == '\'') {
search_toolbar.show();
search_toolbar.textbox.insert(c);
textarea.move_cursor_somewhere_uninteresting();
user.palpitate();
}
}
At least I was able to do my editing -- it just required lots of
mouse-waving and swearing.
From: Geoff Richards Date: 14:45 on 10 Nov 2004 Subject: email fuckage When a mail program quotes a message in a reply you might prefer it to use lots of pointies down the side, or to plonk it verbatim at the bottom. Maybe there are other designs that make sense too, but here's a method that has never occurred to me before: put the name and email address of the original's sender inside a big pile of misformatted ASCII-art boxes, followed by something similar to the content of the original message, except with a few null characters sprinkled in for good measure. Genius. The culprit looks to be one of these: X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.10 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router This wouldn't actually cause me a big problem, but our salesman couldn't open the message in Outlook, and our administrator couldn't edit the text in Gedit (it can't figure out what character encoding it's in, so it daren't let the user see it, in case it fries their brain Snow Crash stylee). Bloody email, hardly worth the trouble any more.
From: Geoff Richards Date: 01:36 on 21 May 2004 Subject: Firefox, it's a bloody quotation mark I've experienced the pure pain of character sets and character encodings by trying to write Perl that could countenance the possibility that there might exist characters outside of ASCII. For the programmer it can be hell. So I'm very appreciative of the Mozilla/Firefox developers, because they're web browsers usually get this right. Usually. So I can look at Japanese text, and all the most obscure kanji get displayed perfectly. But why is it that the opening single-quote (‘) eludes my web browser? Every other strange character it can display perfectly, but not U+2018. It is the one simple character that comes out as a box. Firefox seems to have some sort of blind spot for that particular glyph. My hate is dampened, though, by the joy of discovering optical mice. All those years of my mouse being gunked up and refusing to move to the one piece of screen space I most want to point at. But a cheap optical mouse makes life worth living again... ahhhh, point, point, drag, ... pure luxury.
From: Geoff Richards Date: 11:43 on 09 Apr 2004 Subject: Unlock Computer - please? Windows XP seems to have an equivalent of xlock. It's been suspended all night and now it comes up wanting a password: "This computer is in use and has been locked. "Only IBM-02Q0DRWJTLA\qef or an administrator can unlock this computer." That would be swell, if I knew what the fecking password is. And why do I have to type this mysterious password to unsuspend, but not when I boot the machine? Couldn't a cracker just reboot? Isn't that what I'm going to have to do anyway because I have never heard of having a password on this machine? Bah.
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