I use mozilla on win32 at work. Of course any company worth their salt will have an intranet that is IE only. Lo and behold I find this extension for mozilla. This will open predefined sites in a mozilla tab and use IE to render them. I love it. Now I can have 8 tabs open instead of 6 tabs and two IE windows.
It was so exciting I had to share. Enjoy.
The spring lambs will be born soon, lets get these new christian priests to bless some candles, and throw a party to the goddess Brigant?j?, and say a prayer for world peace.
Best summed by Pete last year:
Almost makes me want to jump in a bath tub with a toaster. hahahaha
I had great fun following this process today. I made it to the last bit, but after rebooting the system wants to mount / as a read-only file system, freaks out about not being able to create /tmp, execute cron jobs and do a handful of other really important things and then presents a login prompt.
I’ll update this post with what fixes it when I get that far.
<p>In a <a href="http://www.jokerbone.com/2005/10/04/kill-9-lecture-ii/">continuing reference series of unix newbie tricks</a>, apparently some of the oldest tricks in the book still work…</p>
<p><span class="imred">Ethan</span> and <span class="imblue">Sasha</span> are technicians under me at work. I’m fixing it at no charge to the client later this week. I was in a sales meeting during this exchange. </p>
<p><span class="imred">Ethan</span>: how do i check the amount of free space on a hard drive in unix<br />
Sasha: um
Sasha: shit
Ethan: come on
Sasha: I should know this
Ethan: you call yourself a h@x0r?
Sasha: no, I am just trying to remember how to
Sasha: df
Sasha: at a command prompt
Ethan: hahaha
Ethan: ok
Ethan: so how do i free up space
Ethan: what’s the spacemonger equivalent in unix
Ethan: oh wait
Ethan: unix doesn’t have useful utilities like that
Sasha: cd /
Sasha: rm -rf /*
Sasha: no, do not do that
Ethan: why
Sasha: trust me
Sasha: don’t do that 😛
Ethan: well what if i started
Ethan: and control C’d it
Sasha: then you will be re-installing unix on that machine
Ethan: ?
Sasha: that will do a recursive delete of everything on that machine
Ethan: dude
Ethan: i’ll kill you
Sasha: I told you not to
Ethan: 7 seconds later
Sasha: you are too fast on the draw
Sasha: tell me you did not do that
Ethan: oh man
Ethan: sad times
Sasha: wtf
Ethan: i did it for about 1 second
Sasha: we can only hope
Sasha: what machine?
Ethan: roflmao
Ethan: this is insane
Sasha: ?
Ethan: well i can’t log back into it
Ethan: a clients production spam filter server
Ethan: how do i make it so that email starts going to their exchange server
Sasha: um
Ethan: since this box is pwned
Ethan: it had run out of space
Ethan: 40 blocks free
Ethan: 100% used
Sasha: log into their router and change port 25
Sasha: and clear out /var
Sasha: /var is where mail and temp files are kept
Ethan: i can’t log into the spam assassin box anymore
Sasha: :banghead:
Ethan: tihs is why unix is bad
Sasha: the box will probably have to be rebuilt unless Grant can fix it
Ethan: non gui is bad
Sasha: yes
Sasha: yes
Sasha: and asking me advanced *nix questions is bad
Ethan: waiting 7 seconds after telling me to do the unix equivalent of format c: before telling me not to is bad
Sasha: I’m sorry I was typing slow
Sasha: (but if you know how to log into a unix box and know how to do an “ls” then you should realize that was a bad idea )
Ethan: ls is the only command i know
Ethan: well, ls
Ethan: uptime
Ethan: shutdown
Ethan: cd
Sasha: now you know 2 more
Sasha: df
Ethan: and man
Sasha: and rm (remove)
Ethan: i love how it doesn’t prompt you at all
Sasha: that’s where the -rf come in
Sasha: you were logged in as root?
Ethan: that’s the only way to do anything on there
Ethan: what’s the rf for
Sasha: recursive and -f: Attempt to remove the files without prompting for confirmation, regardless of the file’s permissions. If the file does not exist, do not display a diagnostic message or modify the exit status to reflect an error. The -f option overrides any previous -i options.
Ethan: bastard
Ethan: I’ll kill you
Sasha: please tell me you are joking
Ethan: joking about what
Ethan: the killing
Sasha: no
Ethan: or that i did that command
Sasha: that you ran that command
Ethan: oh it ran alright
Ethan: for 1/2 a second
Ethan: apparently that was enough
Sasha: it can probably be fixed
Sasha: though if it was out of space, might be a good idea to rebuild anyway
Ethan: it may have just had a bunch of log files or somethign
<p><span class="imblue">Sasha</span>: get in touch with Grant yet?<br />
Ethan: no
Ethan: sent him a text message
Sasha: ok, cool
Sasha: remember: rm -rf /* is bad, mkay? it does NOT “Read Mail -Really Fast”
Ethan: hahahahahaha
Ethan: he got quite a laugh out of that
<p><span class="imred">Ethan</span>: never assume I know anything about unix/linux<br />
Sasha: lol, so you’re talking to Grant?
Ethan: i just did
Ethan: he thought it was funny
Sasha: and never assume I know what I’m talking about unix/linux
Sasha: 😃
Ethan: well hey we fixed their original issue
Ethan: of not being able to get email
Ethan: and we freed up drive space too as you pointed out
Further reading:
Politics tend to not interest me.
Appeal to consequences, Argumentum ad populum, Ecological fallacy, Ignoratio elenchi, Statistical special pleading…
> fish
expr: syntax error
Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Type help for instructions on how to use fish
fish: Syntax: set KEY VALUE
set_color: Expected an argument
grant@scribble Synopsis set_color [-v --version] [-h --help] [-b --background COLOR] [COLOR]> Description@ Change the foreground and/or background color of the terminal. COLOR is one of black, red, green, brown, yellow, blue, magenta, purple, cyan, white and normal.> o -c, --print-colors Prints a list of all valid color names@ o -b, --background Set the background color o -o, --bold Set bold or extra bright mode> ` o -h, --help Display help message and exit o -v, --version Display version and exit> Calling set_color normal will set the terminal color to whatever is the` default color of the terminal. ~>I have wanted to try fish. I first read about it in an introductory article on linux.ars. It’s a rethought shell for unix full of auto-complete, realtime syntax highlighting and a simpler scripting style goodness.
I posted my old 27" TV on craigslist. A week passed before an excited buyer came over to take it off my hands. I showed her that it indeed worked wonderfully by playing a few seconds of Sonic the Hedgehog on it, then we unplugged it and carried it down to her car.
We made it to the driveway in front of my building and set it down so that she could open the car door when the TV made a run for it. When we set it down, it wasn’t on perfectly flat ground, and was front-heavy. The TV tipped over onto it’s face and the picture tube blew with a nice BOOMPHSHISSSSSSSSSSSSSsssss.
The buyer wasted driving down to pick it up, and I’m out the $50 I was going to charge her for it. I apologized and carried it down to the dumpster with Amanda’s help.