Marky’s Web Log

Being a zealot rules! Especially when I am zealous for some (I admit not all) of the right reasons.

I am running a beta and is is good not great but good. Final should see some nice improvements. There are so many reviews out there. I am just going to drink a martini and tell you to go find them.

No bull shit this really happened.

I am in the back yard b-s’ing with my $WIFE. Talking about nothing important, just enjoying the weather.

This is the chicken $WIFE caught.

$DOG is just walking around then out of no where $DOG goes absolutely ape. I mean hair is flying everywhere. I yell to tell the dog to shut the hell up. Then $WIFE goes over to see what $DOG is so upset about. Then $WIFE says “oh my $DEITY a chicken!” I say to $WIFE shut the hell up. I walk over to the area that $DOG is still going ape over. Sure enough, there is a flippin’ chicken. A real live black chicken.

These are the bonds I am referring to

$WIFE deftly catches the chicken. The Chicken went docile and all was well. Until we notice, the chicken has its legs tied together. What the hell is up with that? I don’t get why someone would tie the legs of a chicken together.

I love chicken. I love the taste. It is awesome. Treating animals like that before you kill them makes absolutely no sense. Were they trying to fatten it up?

I then called the local animal services center. We cut the bonds and they took the chicken.

Whether you find this story tragic or funny as hell I have to say yesterday was an odd day!

I use a netbook and desktop real estate is at a prime with those wonderful little tools. Firefox likes to use its share of real estate too. So here we can auto hide the bookmarks toobar.

 /* Auto-hide bookmarks toolbar */
#PersonalToolbar {visibility: collapse !important;}
#navigator-toolbox:hover > #PersonalToolbar {visibility: visible !important;}

My desktops are all huge monitors. Thus I don’t suffer for real estated on those so here is a way to make your bookmarks toolbar show multiple rows.

/* Multi-row bookmarks toolbar for marky*/
#bookmarksBarContent
{display:block !important;}
.places-toolbar-items
{display:block !important;
height: 35px !important;
overflow-y:auto !important;}
#bookmarksBarContent toolbarseparator
{display:inline !important;}
#bookmarksBarContent .bookmark-item
{visibility: visible !important;}
.chevron {height: 0px !important;}

Be sure to change your height to fit your individual setup.

http://www.programmerfish.com/roffice-2007-in-linux

So, I use newsgroups with APN.  They rule… Anyway when I am at $DAY_JOB I can saturate the network with NNTP.  That is no Bueno.  I have been using Wondershaper to prevent this this @ $DAY_JOB.

there is a good and a bad

the good:  a simple sudo command and I can’t saturate the network.

the bad: Ubuntu uses NetworkManager to control Interfaces.  That means I have to re-set the command any time I reboot.

sudo wondershaper eth0 1000 1000

So that really means sudo wondershaper <interface> <downspeed> <upspeed>

Awesome eh?  I love it but like I said I have to reset that everytime I reboot.

I have always had a bit of an issue moutning my windows images made from Alcohol 120%, since MDF’s usually seem to work the best.  Here is what I have found.

 sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 <image path> <mount point>

And that is that.