Compatibilizer Update

My Compatibilizer extension, in dire need of an update, has gotten it! My bad bash skills when I made the first script are now better, so it works a lot better.
The big change is that now it accepts a filename as a parameter. Multiple .xpi files will not affect it at all.
Also I made the [...]

Tips for downloading Hardy

Here are a few tips for those of you about to download Hardy and do a new install:

Use a Mirror! Find one near you so as not to stress the Ubuntu servers too much. If you are at school (like me), try mirror.anl.gov, the mirror of Argonne National Laboratory. Much faster connections on school networks.
Use [...]

Hardy is OUT!

Well, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is officially out! I have all 3 i386 releases downloaded from my nearest mirror already. And a few minutes ago I saw this:

w00t!

Ultimate Claws Mail 0.5

Due to the recent release of Claws Mail 3.4.0, my Ultimate Claws Mail theme looks good now! It is PNG, a native export of SVG, so expect great things.
The size of the theme is increasing steadily. It has it’s own Google Code page (which is very nice, btw.)
That page is here. Excerpt below:
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The Ultimate Claws [...]

Claws Mail Update!

I’ve noticed that lately the Claws-MailGutsy repository I had set up wasn’t responding to apt-get. Then today I saw that there is a new version out. After a bit I found the proper repositories.
Here they are:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/claws-mail/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/claws-mail/ubuntu gutsy main
Those work fine, and after an update the new version should install fine.
This version [...]

Haha

Just received the following email:

email= **************@aim.com
Good day.
I am presenting a very good opportunity for you to represent our
company as a liaison and payment receiving agent in your region.
I am Mr. James Harold Haworth, Executive director, Chief Executive
Officer and president of a newly incorporated International and
Multinational Private company; Chia Tai Enterprises International
Limited Hong Kong, Incorporated in [...]

Installing your own extensions in Firefox 3 beta 5

I’m sure that many of you noticed that in the new Firefox beta 5, there is no ‘Install’ button in the addons dialog. Although presumably for security reasons, it is really useful to have if you, say, manually change extensions to make them compatible…
Here is how to re-enable that button:

Open ‘about:config’
Find the key named extensions.hideInstallButton
Double [...]

WordPress admin interface restyle

As any of you with a WordPress blog knows, they redid the entire admin interface a few weeks ago. I can’t stand most of it, so I restyled it using the Stylish firefox extension (which I am hooked on…).
The restyle is posted on userstyles.org. Here is the summary:
This is a style I wrote to restyle [...]

Accident or easter egg?

After seeing the tip on Lifehacker about a FF3b5 easter egg (type about:robots), I was bored. So I typed ‘about:’, and came to this.
First of all, it’s formatted really weirdly. Most likely meant to be seen in the ‘About’ box? But the really interesting part is the picture. Look at the text…

For some reason, it [...]

Fixing the dropdown bug in FF3b5

In my last post I noted that there is a bug in firefox 3 beta 5 (not really, the bug is unintentional, as a result of a code cleanup) that causes the dropdown menus, including the url bar, to hav really bad animations.
To fix this until the patch comes out:

Open up the Advanced Compiz Settings. [...]