I noticed after I upgraded my desktop from Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” to “Gutsy Gibbon” that Firefox’s “Send As Link” had stopped working, but it took me until now to take a look at why. I love “Send As Link” - unlike Internet Explorer it fills in the email “Subject” line correctly, and sends the URL as a plain-text user-visible link, unlike IE’s freaky .url attachment.
It wasn’t until I noticed that MailTo: links were broken that I twigged what was going on. Somehow in the upgrade Ubuntu had lost track of my “Preferred Email Application”. To set it correctly:
- Go to the “System” menu, select “Preferences” and then “Preferred Applications”.
- Change the mail reader option to “Thunderbird” in the drop-down list.
Restart Firefox and you should be good-to-go.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Liaison with Other Organisations
Since the negotiation of a Memorandum of Understanding with Ninemsn Pty Limited in August 2004, the next stage of the ‘corporate community partnership’ with Ninemsn has been progressed. A joint website on the Ninemsn network promoting NetAlert and Internet safety was developed during this period. In-kind support being provided by Ninemsn under the MOU includes editorial and advertising support both online and through the Ninemsn network and offline through PBL editorial support, media promotion and introductions to the Ninemsn media network.
…an interesting little quote. from DCITA’s “Six-month report on the online content co-regulatory scheme”. Link
Saturday, October 20, 2007
I had the radio subsystem lock up on my Nokia 5300 the other day. The rest of the phone was fine - I could write SMS’s, listen to MP3s, even copy data via the USB port - but I couldn’t get a signal. I figured the tower near my place of work was down, until I rebooted the thing, and suddenly received a day’s worth of messages, voicemail etc. It was definitely the phone - I’d driven through at least a dozen cells in the course of the day.
I guess as phones become more like general-purpose computers, they’ll become more like general-purpose computers.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
From an article in ComputerWorld:
In June, four people were charged in Texas with operating a chat line where they taught people how to make false 911 calls, sending emergency response teams to targeted victims, a practice known as “swatting.” In a June 12 swatting incident, a swatter called the Cleburne, Texas, 911 dispatch using a commercially available spoof card and Skype, and then “stated that he had shot and killed members of the family, that he was holding hostages, that he was using hallucinogenic drugs, that he was armed with an AK-47, and he demanded $50,00 and transportation across the U.S. border to Mexico,” according to court filings.
I always thought that emergency lines had deeper access to the phone system than the rest of us; that they wouldn’t be fooled by the caller ID info sent down the local loop. I guess I was wrong.
Does this actually work for anyone? It keeps pitching somewhat random suggestions to me, even after I’ve taken the time to rate my favourite books, and with three years of purchasing history plugged into it. Either my tastes are too eclectic, or there’s something b0rken in its algorithms.
Oh, and if Amazon’s “Today’s Deals” would actually offer me something that Amazon are prepared to ship to my country, that’d be great. It knows my name when I log on, and they have my last couple of addresses - why not pay attention to that data, and pitch me something they’re selling?
Trying to get Gnokii working with a Nokia 3310/3315? Works fine for one message, but then refuses to respond?
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Mine asploded the other day, on a weekend no less, so it became a Matter of Urgency to buy a new one. Most of this stuff I thought of prior to rushing out and buying one, but I missed a couple of things, and I’d like a complete list for next time.
- Water inputs
- I have a small hot water tank; I think I’d better off with an in-built element.
- Depth, width and height
- I thought of this before I left - I’m just adding it for completeness.
- Size
- Two wet bath sheets weigh 5kg (I weighed ‘em). If you regularly need to wash more than this…
- Half-Wash
- Mine seems to measure out water according to how much washing’s on-board - stuff seems damp, rather than underwater.
- Lint Catcher
- I’m damned if I can find the one in mine - I mean, it’s got to go somewhere, right?
- Time Delay
- The best bit about modern washing machines. Having the thing kick off while you’re at work, so you get home just as it finishes is genius.
Friday, September 21, 2007
From the Wiki:
The PIT maneuver is a method, popular with US police departments, by which one car pursuing another can force the pursued vehicle to abruptly turn sideways to the direction of travel, causing the driver to lose control and stop. The acronym “PIT” stands for either Precision Immobilization Technique, Pursuit Intervention Technique, or Parallel Immobilization Technique, depending on which police department is using it. Other names for the same maneuver are Tactical Vehicle Intervention (TVI), “tactical ramming,”, “legal intervention” and fishtailing. This method is mostly used to end a car chase more safely.
I’ve only heard it called the “Police Tap”.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
From: Warpath O. Pelvises
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Since I am the only person on earth to have ever received this error message, I thought I had better blog about it.
I’ve been playing with AJAXTerm, which could potentially be very useful. It’s a web-app that takes HTTP requests, and pipes them through to SSH. In short, you could log on to an SSL-secured webpage, and get console access to the server. Handy.
There’s a short install guide on the AJAXTerm website, but it’s missing a couple of steps (Continued)