I was looking at the stats for this blog.
The most common keyword search for this site is:
shop to earn compensation plan.
That implies that my posts about Mary Kay, and Shop To Earn http://plainsofninsianna.blogspot.com/2008/07/shop-to-earn.html are what gets people here.
However, my post about Thunderbird is the one that has the most views.
This is not from "All Time", where older posts might reasonably be expected to have more views than newer posts. This is from last month's stats. OTOH, I haven't been posting much to this blog recently.
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Friday, 15 April 2011
A Media Centre
I setup a Linux Box to use as a media centre.
Then bought a big screen TV for it.
Problem: The TV does not have a VGA port for the computer.
Solution # 1: Buy an Android tablet with an HDMI out. Use VLC to stream content from the Linux Box media centre. Watch content on the big screen TV.
Solution # 2: Buy an Android tablet and NSA. Connect the two together. Watch content on the big screen TV.
The real irony is that Android Gingerbread is a better server than Microsoft's Home Media Server 2011 is. (Fewer bugs, and more out of the box functionality.)
Coming soon to a tablet near you: AAMP.
AAMP := Android + Apache + MySQL + Python/PERL/PHP.
Then bought a big screen TV for it.
Problem: The TV does not have a VGA port for the computer.
Solution # 1: Buy an Android tablet with an HDMI out. Use VLC to stream content from the Linux Box media centre. Watch content on the big screen TV.
Solution # 2: Buy an Android tablet and NSA. Connect the two together. Watch content on the big screen TV.
The real irony is that Android Gingerbread is a better server than Microsoft's Home Media Server 2011 is. (Fewer bugs, and more out of the box functionality.)
Coming soon to a tablet near you: AAMP.
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Obama Care
I've been reading through the ObamaCare bill.
A couple of things to note:
* It makes homelessness a criminal offense;
* It reduces the amount of health care coverage offered by employers as a fringe benefit;
* It raises insurance premiums for everybody, whilst reducing the amount of coverage;
All that the kenyan citizen that occupies the white house is doing, is replaying the mau-mau revolution in the united states.
A couple of things to note:
* It makes homelessness a criminal offense;
* It reduces the amount of health care coverage offered by employers as a fringe benefit;
* It raises insurance premiums for everybody, whilst reducing the amount of coverage;
All that the kenyan citizen that occupies the white house is doing, is replaying the mau-mau revolution in the united states.
Saturday, 9 October 2010
eSnips
Once upon a time, roughly five years ago, esnips was worth attempting to use.
But now, as this screenshot shows, it requires one to login, even when one is already logged in.
If you look at the top right hand part of the picture, the sign out link is clearly visible.
Next to it, is an equally clear "My Menu" link.
The login stuff is equally visible on the left hand side.
I call that a fail.
But now, as this screenshot shows, it requires one to login, even when one is already logged in.
If you look at the top right hand part of the picture, the sign out link is clearly visible.
Next to it, is an equally clear "My Menu" link.
The login stuff is equally visible on the left hand side.
I call that a fail.
Thursday, 9 September 2010
64 bit video
Flash is A11Y hostile, and as such, web designers who use it should be required to have both arms, both legs, both ears, and both eyes removed before being allowed to design another website.
But there is another problem with flash as well. It is not cross-platform. Flash is stuck in a 32 bit world. A world that died in the previous century. Technology that is more than a decade out of date. The only people that use 32 bit operating systems are people that run virii that masquarade as trojans that masquerade as operating systems.
The image below is of the page at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html.
Which is why FLOCK, a so-called social browser, fails to cut it as a social experience:
Whilst Minefield almost passes that test:
As does Namoroka:
Epiphany doesn't have any issues:
Galeon displays the same error message as firefox:
It is hardly surprising that Konqueror exhibits the same failure to display flash:
And for those of you who want to torture your ears, listening to what to has to have been one the worst songs to ever come out of Bulawayo, it can be found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWDAPFU19GI .
But there is another problem with flash as well. It is not cross-platform. Flash is stuck in a 32 bit world. A world that died in the previous century. Technology that is more than a decade out of date. The only people that use 32 bit operating systems are people that run virii that masquarade as trojans that masquerade as operating systems.
The image below is of the page at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html.
Which is why FLOCK, a so-called social browser, fails to cut it as a social experience:
Whilst Minefield almost passes that test:
As does Namoroka:
Epiphany doesn't have any issues:
Galeon displays the same error message as firefox:
It is hardly surprising that Konqueror exhibits the same failure to display flash:
And for those of you who want to torture your ears, listening to what to has to have been one the worst songs to ever come out of Bulawayo, it can be found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWDAPFU19GI .
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Thunderbird
Today, I concluded that there is no way that I can accept Thunderbird as having anything that even remotely resembles an email client.
It is, at best, a toy for people who never receive email. A category that I am not in.
A pity, because that means that there are no email clients for Linux that use a GUI.
It is, at best, a toy for people who never receive email. A category that I am not in.
A pity, because that means that there are no email clients for Linux that use a GUI.
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Thunderbird bugs
Way back in 2006 I filed a bug report for Thunderbird using the mozilla bugzilla.
Today it was closed due to insufficient information.
What they wanted was a copy of the logs that Thunderbird generates.
Between the fact that I turn Thunderbird logging off, and that my workaround consists of either doing everything sequentially, or using different email clients to retrieve email, I did not have the logs they requested.
I was under the impression that the bug report was closed years ago, as "will not fix". One of the developers told me that the described scenario is outside of the design specifications for Thunderbird. As such, Thunderbird is not a suitable email client for me, and the patch I requested is not suitable for including in Thunderbird.
I am at a complete loss as to how having log files --- any log files --- would help them code the requested patch. Especially since the parameters are provided in the original bug report.
And people wonder why I don't recommend Thunderbird, on the basis that it does not retrieve email.
Today it was closed due to insufficient information.
What they wanted was a copy of the logs that Thunderbird generates.
Between the fact that I turn Thunderbird logging off, and that my workaround consists of either doing everything sequentially, or using different email clients to retrieve email, I did not have the logs they requested.
I was under the impression that the bug report was closed years ago, as "will not fix". One of the developers told me that the described scenario is outside of the design specifications for Thunderbird. As such, Thunderbird is not a suitable email client for me, and the patch I requested is not suitable for including in Thunderbird.
I am at a complete loss as to how having log files --- any log files --- would help them code the requested patch. Especially since the parameters are provided in the original bug report.
And people wonder why I don't recommend Thunderbird, on the basis that it does not retrieve email.
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