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Jul 10 2007
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Ugly Tri-Boot Transforms into Pretty Dual-Boot :D

I used a live ubuntu disk (6.06, 7.10 doesnt work for some reason) to re-install ubuntu (luckily there wasn’t anything important on there…except my plasma server….I let go of my last shreds of UU today…), and then once i got in there i manually edited my boot/grub/menu.lst to remove all the excess entries (the memory tests and the different kernels, i never use them anyway) and add my osx86. I was about to add the XP parition when I realized that I wiped it yesterday…I don’t remember why I did that, but it’s not like it worked anyway.

So now I have a happy dual-boot server chugging down some low-seed torrents for me so i am free to turn off Eve and stuff without worrying about losing data or something. Yay 🙂

Maybe someday I’ll try out windows again, but I don’t know how to make the internet work on it…

(Thanks for your suggestion, LA…I had already done the above stuff when I got your comment ^.^)

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Jul 09 2007
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Ugly Tri-Boot Situation

So my awesome windows/osx86/ubuntu tri-boot machine I set up many moons ago is now pretty much kaput. Reinstalling XP was a really, really, really bad move, it turns out. It overwrote my hacked GRUB menu, so I could only use XP. Then, to make matters worse, XP somehow lost its ethernet card drivers, so I can’t get to the intertubes from the XP partition. So after 30 days, XP commits seppeku since I never activated it, since I couldn’t activate it, since it couldn’t access the net.

So basically I was stuck with a computer with 3 operating systems installed, but the only one which was accessible was the one which didn’t work. Then I discovered that by putting in the OSx86 disk, I can re-access my OSx partition, and re-bless the hard drive to make OSx the default OS. Now this is an improvement over a broken windows, but what I’m really looking for is the Ubuntu. Actually, I want the GRUB menu back so I can pick whichever I want, but I really have need of ubuntu right now.

So I try re-installing ubuntu. Actually, first I try downloading my torrent via the live image (I’m trying to use it as a torrent server), but it can’t see the ext3 partition on the hard drive for some reason, and it can’t write to ntfs or hfs+, so it tries to write it to the live disk and of course that fails, but first it seeds for an hour and a half before telling me it failed. Whee.

So I go to reinstall GRUB, since I know how to do it in Ubuntu, but after about 5 minutes I remember that I’m in the live disk’s filesystem, not the hard drive, and not only is installing GRUB pointless on a CD, it’s also impossible.

Tomorrow I’m going to try…something. Maybe a hammer would fix it up? This could end with me wiping the hard drive and starting over…If all the OS’s used the same filesystem I wouldn’t encounter these problems, because I could mount the mac or windows partition from linux and write the torrented files to them, or edit the GRUB menu on the linux partition from mac…We should all just use zfs…

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Jul 05 2007
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iPhone activations hit a million?

Apparently, there have been 1 million iPhone activations since the start of sales last Friday. This (of course), would imply 1 million units sold, but doesn’t necessarily mean that. Hmm. Still, impressive figures.

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Jun 29 2007
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iDay (Guess which phone comes out today?)

So yeah, in about an hour (here on the East Coast, at least…it’s being released at 6 PM local time) the iPhone will be unleashed upon the masses. Reports of what the lines are like are somewhat disappointing, the longest being The Cube in New York at about 200 people (The Cube is the 5th Ave. Apple store). There’s some buzz about who’s in line in different cities, for instance the Mayor of Philadelphia is waiting in line, fully decked in his rain poncho and a fold-out chair. The Woz is #1 in line wherever he is, and apparently there’s a troupe of circus people with a mini golf rig in line in San Fransisco (No, the prize is not an iPhone).

iTunes 7.3 was released earlier today, adding iPhone support, since it’ll be managed like an iPod…I took the liberty of constructing a paper iPhone which I think does justice to the real thing:
iPhone

No, I’m not buying an iPhone, I can’t pull off $599 at the moment. Plus the data plan, and I’m completely screwed over. Oh well. I did take the liberty of laughing at each Sprint and Verizon store as I walked past them today to check out the line at our AT&T store. There was actually a little 5 person line outside it! 😀 Made me feel so cool.

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Jun 28 2007
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How to Unify Firefox (On Mac) (More Details)

Ok so after some prodding on my dad’s part, I’ve decided to (try to) show everyone how to unify their Firefoxes like I have.

First off, if you’re not using a mac, you’re on your own. I’m almost positive the base skin I start with is not windows-compatible, so you’re screwed.

So here’s the grand list of all modifications I’ve made to Firefox:

  • The base theme to install: GrApple (UNO). This gives you the basic Safari buttons and everything.
  • The contents of my UserChrome.css are here (just save that file to ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxx.default/chrome).
  • Place these 3 images in the above folder:


  • Place this search plugin in the ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxx.default/searchplugins folder. This adds the Google Image Search plugin to the searchbar, and hopefully uses the magnifying glass as it’s icon…
  • Install Fission (for the address bar loading, safari-style) and Stop-or-Reload Button (to swap the stop and reload buttons, safari-style).

If you do all of the above, you should get my unified Firefox. I also did a few things in the about:config window, but they were all performance things. Check it out

So try it out (at your own risk), and tell me if something is broken! 😀

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Jun 28 2007
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Firefox Unification: Complete

Firefox UNO complete

That, my friends, is an image of Firefox. I took it about a minute ago. Firefox Unification is now complete, as I figured out how to skin the tab bar. It required a third image, but hey, it looks fricken’ sweet.

I will probably continue modding it, get that active tab more blended, remove that tab bar menu, but it’s completely unified now. 🙂

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Jun 27 2007
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Happy Birthday, Eve!

Today (June 27th, 2007) is the one-year anniversary of Eve’s arrival! Yay! Since then I’ve had a ton of fun with her, and I worked out most of the problems. I’m a total machead now, thanks to her.

Sadly, she’s showing her age a bit…I have a bit of degradation where my right palm always rests, the ‘open’ button on the front is no longer shiny, and the bottom is as scratched as hell. I still love her. I cleaned off her screen today 🙂

Anyway, happy birthday Eve, and many more!

Oh, and here’s a picture of her in her natural environment 🙂

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Jun 24 2007
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Leopard Videos

The developers who were at the WWDC received beta copies of OS X Leopard, so they could start developing for it. Some developers were good, and kept it to themselves. Others released screenshots that they weren’t supposed to. Others actually released the OS itself onto the internet.

This guy decided to post some videos of it in action. You can see Spaces, Time Machine, Stacks, the new screensavers (cool stuff), and a lot more.

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Jun 23 2007
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Cleaning Out the Bookmarks Menu

In preparation for Eve’s 1st birthday (this Wednesday), I’ve been doing some cleaning up. One stage of that is getting all my programs to match (thus the craziness with skin modification in Firefox, etc.). Another part of the cleaning was wiping out all the stuff I never use from my bookmarks menu in Firefox. Before cleaning, the menu almost touched the bottom on my 1680×1050 monitor, and had one of those scrollies on my 1400×900. Now that I cleaned it out, I have 10 items on the list, and 2 folders. Impressive, I think.

Speaking of bookmarks I never use any more, anyone know what happened to Chugworth, the awesome webcomic I used to check loyally daily? It’s been down for like a month but I’m reluctant to remove it from my bar because I love it so much…

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Jun 23 2007
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How to Unify Firefox (On Mac)

If you want to have my unified Firefox (as discussed in my previous post):

  • Install GrApple (UNO).
  • Put this file in your Chrome folder (in ~/Library/App Support/Firefox/Profiles/XXXXXX.default/chrome):
  • Place the following files in the chrome folder:
    toolbar.png
    toolbar2.png

    • This should give you a nice unified Firefox 🙂
    (Note: Since I haven’t gotten the whole tab bar thing worked out yet, it helps to just disable the tab bar if only one tab is open. This can be done from the prefs for Firefox)

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