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The curse of ABP
Oct. 16th, 2007 11:15 amAdBlock Plus is a very useful Firefox extension. Except when you're laying out a page containing some ads, and spend ages wondering why the images are displaying properly in IE, but not in FF.
Graph drawing app?
Aug. 30th, 2007 04:09 pmDo any of you tech-savvy types know of a good free app that generates a graph from a table of connectivity data?
I am a lay person in this area, so it'll have to not require me to gain significant understanding of graph theory just in order to use it[1]. What I want in the simplest version is to be able to feed in a CSV or similar table of A -> B, C -> B, C-> D, etc, and get out a nice network diagram in some straightforward graphical file format. If it's also able to represent direction, strength etc of relationship, that'd be a bonus!
1 I found the CPAN Graph module fairly heavy going in places in this respect, so that gives you an idea of my lowly level of understanding. But I will end up using that to write something myself if there's nothing handier out there.
I am a lay person in this area, so it'll have to not require me to gain significant understanding of graph theory just in order to use it[1]. What I want in the simplest version is to be able to feed in a CSV or similar table of A -> B, C -> B, C-> D, etc, and get out a nice network diagram in some straightforward graphical file format. If it's also able to represent direction, strength etc of relationship, that'd be a bonus!
1 I found the CPAN Graph module fairly heavy going in places in this respect, so that gives you an idea of my lowly level of understanding. But I will end up using that to write something myself if there's nothing handier out there.
My Tiny Footprint is frozen
Apr. 23rd, 2007 02:41 pmQuite a weird situation just now where my Task Manager (in XP) lost its menus, tabs, and the stuff at the bottom. I assumed it was the manifestation of some hideous system error, but no, apparently it's deliberate and is called Tiny Footprint mode. You can toggle in and out of it by double-clicking on the border of the Task Manager window. Why anyone would want to I'm not sure, as it's a bit of a misnomer -- "About 90% of the Usual Footprint but with Vastly Reduced Functionality" would be a better name for this mode.
Presumably I double-clicked on it by accident at some point and didn't notice. Well, if it happens to you, you know now. Or if you knew about it already, or are unnerved by the mere mention of Task Manager, please retrospectively ignore this post...
Compare:
( Tiny )
vs.
( Normal )
Presumably I double-clicked on it by accident at some point and didn't notice. Well, if it happens to you, you know now. Or if you knew about it already, or are unnerved by the mere mention of Task Manager, please retrospectively ignore this post...
Compare:
( Tiny )
vs.
( Normal )
Password panic!
Mar. 21st, 2007 03:54 pmHmm, Firefox seems to have gone naughty on me (after a browser crash) and is refusing to access my remembered passwords.
I've upgraded to the hyper-new 2.0.0.3 which apparently fixes a related bug about not populating password fields, but it hasn't helped.
The annoying thing is I can see them all sitting there (encrypted) in my signons2.txt file, but for some reason neither Firefox itself nor the Password Exporter extension is able to read them out -- apart from my LJ one, which I've just now re-entered so as to be able to post this.
I found some online discussion of an edit to signons2.txt that might help (putting the url at the foot of each block as well as the head), but no help.
I wonder if the encryption key's got screwed somehow...
Anyone else seeing this problem, or are you all too security-conscious to be letting it remember your passwords in the first place?
Edit: I've recreated signons2.txt, and new passwords I have Firefox remember into it are read back out fine. But pasting in, some of the old ones out of the previous signons2.txt, they're not recognizd. This seems to support the idea that the encryption key has unexpectedly changed. Bah!
I've upgraded to the hyper-new 2.0.0.3 which apparently fixes a related bug about not populating password fields, but it hasn't helped.
The annoying thing is I can see them all sitting there (encrypted) in my signons2.txt file, but for some reason neither Firefox itself nor the Password Exporter extension is able to read them out -- apart from my LJ one, which I've just now re-entered so as to be able to post this.
I found some online discussion of an edit to signons2.txt that might help (putting the url at the foot of each block as well as the head), but no help.
I wonder if the encryption key's got screwed somehow...
Anyone else seeing this problem, or are you all too security-conscious to be letting it remember your passwords in the first place?
Edit: I've recreated signons2.txt, and new passwords I have Firefox remember into it are read back out fine. But pasting in, some of the old ones out of the previous signons2.txt, they're not recognizd. This seems to support the idea that the encryption key has unexpectedly changed. Bah!
Foxtrot tango, papa?
Aug. 22nd, 2006 09:12 amDoes anyone know of / can recommend a good free / cheap FTP client that'll do reasonably clever and option-laden synching of directory content? Something like WinSCP, only for FTP?
Edit: Being more specific, features I'd like to see include:
* with a small number of clicks, it compares a remote directory (and recurses down into subdirectories) with the previously-specified local equivalent, presents me a list of which files are newer at which end, and will then (again with a small number of clicks) upload or download as appropriate to sych the ones I want to be synched;
* options to include hidden files in the comparison, exclude certain types of files by extension, ...
* remember directory presentation options;
* refresh local directory automatically when changes made in other apps (this seems a simple feature, but I've yet to find it);
* can keep conections to more than one server open at once;
* can configure keep-alive options;
* can synch (as above) remote servers with each other (via invisible local temp copy, presumably);
* easy to chmod, chown, chgrp;
* keps informative log of operations;
* make coffee.
Edit: Being more specific, features I'd like to see include:
* with a small number of clicks, it compares a remote directory (and recurses down into subdirectories) with the previously-specified local equivalent, presents me a list of which files are newer at which end, and will then (again with a small number of clicks) upload or download as appropriate to sych the ones I want to be synched;
* options to include hidden files in the comparison, exclude certain types of files by extension, ...
* remember directory presentation options;
* refresh local directory automatically when changes made in other apps (this seems a simple feature, but I've yet to find it);
* can keep conections to more than one server open at once;
* can configure keep-alive options;
* can synch (as above) remote servers with each other (via invisible local temp copy, presumably);
* easy to chmod, chown, chgrp;
* keps informative log of operations;
* make coffee.
Font manager recs
Aug. 3rd, 2006 03:23 pmAnyone out there use, and can recommend, font manager software for Windows? I've been mstly using Extensis Suitcase v9 for the past few years, but am getting increasingly fed up with its non-friendly aspects. What I'd like ideally would allow you to tag and group fonts by assigning keywords, would transparently handle system fonts, would allow assignment of aliases / manual resolution of name conflicts, would have file-manager-like capability within its own listing window...
Previously I've used Xerox Font Manager, which was pretty hopeless*, but I'm hoping that the market has moved on somewhat since I last made the decision. Any tips?
Edit: as was Adobe Type Manager, I'd forgotten about that one.
Previously I've used Xerox Font Manager, which was pretty hopeless*, but I'm hoping that the market has moved on somewhat since I last made the decision. Any tips?
Edit: as was Adobe Type Manager, I'd forgotten about that one.
http://www.roamdrive.com/
Lets you use your Gmail account etc as (something like) a remote hard drive. Easier way of storing backups etc than mailing yourself huge attachments!
Has anyone used this? -- problems, praise?
Lets you use your Gmail account etc as (something like) a remote hard drive. Easier way of storing backups etc than mailing yourself huge attachments!
Has anyone used this? -- problems, praise?
