To fix it, in both Firefox 3 or Firefox 4, type ‘about:config‘.

Next, search for ‘browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent‘, set the value to ‘false’ as shown below.

This tip is brought to you by the number 4 and the letter F.

Cheers,

Herlo

Cheers,

Herlo

Report: OLPC may eventually switch from Linux to Windows XP
Nicholas Negroponte on Sugar and One Laptop Per Child

It appears, that Greg DeKoenigsberg responded (it appears) to these two articles with a great rebuttal in this article:

OLPC Developers are *not* fundamentalists

Thank you Greg, thank you for saying what I feel inside.  As an open source advocate, I see the value and benefit of free software and its power.  I feel good inside when I contribute and don’t feel anything like a fundamentalist.

Again, thank you Greg.

Cheers,

Herlo

While this is hilarious, its shouldn’t happen.  Any ideas?  I know it didn’t take 28927 seconds (or about 1/3 of a day) to download that foomatic package.

Cheers,

Herlo

My reasoning is that its pure laziness on their part, mostly because I am the guest and shouldn’t have to be greeted with a tub full of shower water after a couple minutes of letting it get warm.

Anyway, just a small gripe I had to get off my chest today.

Cheers,

Herlo

BUT!

Why is it that a bug that has been logged for some time can go so long without being fixed. It sure seems like a very simple fix, but no, its still broken.

What, you ask, am I talking about? Well, its this bug on mozilla’s bugzilla that’s bugging me. While its not a major bug, its annoying and causes me heartache every time I look into my /tmp directory.

The problem is that as Thunderbird creates and moves data around when using a filter rule. It creates temporary files which is all fine and good, but the problem is the code is broken that removes the temporary files. My /tmp directory just fills and fills with these useless little files. It’s driving me insane. Every time I go into the directory to look at something, I’m bombarded with files that are named tmprules-##.dat , where the ## is a number.

Have a look into the directory:

$ ls /tmp/tmprules*.dat | wc -l
492


Why do we need to have 492 files in there? I don’t even have 492 messages I read each day. Come on Mozilla Foundation, take a few minutes and fix this annoying little bug that’s been hanging around since this March!

Cheers,

Herlo

The point of this post is to ask a simple question, however.  During the promotion of this event, I’ve received suggestions beyond the three big versions of Linux that are being released close to one month from each other.  For example, OpenBSD will be release soon, and Apple released Leopard for Mac OSX, among others.  And while every operating system is welcome to participate in the MDRP, I can’t help but wonder about certain definitions.

My question is what counts as a distro?.  I mean how do you classify yourself as a distro?  Is it a Linux only thing?  Or, is it just Open Source OSes?  Maybe its nothing, and I’m just bringing this up for no good reason.

Your comments are appreciated and encouraged.

Cheers,

Herlo

Except when the link starts with https!

Why is this!

I’ve hunted high and low, searched google for terms like “GNOME click https” with no luck. Frustration has really set in for me, because its not something that majorly affects me but its just enough of a bother. I’ve waited to see if someone else got frustrated enough and wanted to fix this problem as well. So far, no dice.

So, I’m looking for answers to this eternal question. When I click (or ctrl+click) an https link in any application, why doesn’t it automatically load into my browser? Is there a solution to this? Please comment, they are much appreciated.

UPDATE: It seems that from the suggestions I was given, things are working much better now.  Originally, I had the custom option chosen in my preferred applications, and that was pointing to Firefox.  At a whim, I changed it to actually be Firefox, and all is well.

Thanks to everyone who commented on this.

Cheers,

Herlo

For your entertainment, I took some interesting, pics:

I also took some pretty pictures of fall in New England. Not being from here, its amazing how beautiful the leaves can be.

Cheers,

Herlo

BUT

I’m curious as to the history, a farce or truth as to why blootbot is considered a female in Utah? Is there some long truthful story that can be told, or is it that someone just decided? Is it like naming a boat? a hurricane? Call it a fascination, a fanaticism, crazy or whatever, I just want to know the history.

In a recent interview with TimRiker, the maintainer of blootbot, I asked him some tough, hard questions:

16:37 <@herlo> TimRiker: so do you know the history of why ibot/infobot/jbot is a girl?  I'd like to learn it...
16:46 < TimRiker> herlo: infobot is not a girl. well, not all the time.
16:46 < goozbach> don't let Charity hear that
16:46  * maquis sends an email to charity....
16:46 < TimRiker> is Charity a girl all the time? :)
16:46 < TimRiker> ~gender
16:46 < infobot> I'm hermaphroditic
16:46 < TimRiker> ~gender
16:46 < infobot> I'm hermaphroditic
16:46 < TimRiker> ~gender
16:46 < infobot> I'm female
16:46 < TimRiker> ~gender
16:46 < infobot> I'm pregnant
16:46 < TimRiker> ~gender
16:46 < infobot> I'm pregnant
16:46 < TimRiker> ~gender
16:46 < infobot> I'm gay
16:47 < TimRiker> etc.
16:47 < TimRiker> depends on her mood.

I’d like to hear your opinions, or share your fantastic story of how she became the woman she is today. We love our bot, we do, tell the infobot story…

Cheers,

Herlo