Tech
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Two firefox tips
While doing some reseach, I discovered that the “leak” is acually a costly feature (aren’t they all). It has something to do with cacheing closed tabs.
Anyway, to fix it, just follow the instructions on this LifeHacker page. Also, I’ve heard good things about about Tab Mix Plus.
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SQL Server Errata
As everyone should learn from my 3 hours of Sql server frustration… Sql Server returns different values when you run a CheckSum on the same text for varchar and nvarchar data types.
The above probably isn’t interesting to any of my readers, but should I forget it later I can find it again.
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Monday link roundup
- An in-depth examination on how to build an energy efficient house
- Robot snipers in Israel
- Strobist begins Lighting 102
- No one thinks seriously about alternative energy. Check out this post from TreeHugger “New Battery Pushed Prius to 125 MPG“. It’s a great idea and invention, but it’s a plug-in hybrid. The motion is coming from the power grid. Granted electricity is usually more efficient than gasoline, but that’s like saying that a diesel engine gets infinite mileage because it doesn’t burn any gasoline at all.
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Sunday link round up
- A creepy collection of suicide notes
- Google used this camera to create their new “Street View” feature (which is not in Atlanta, yet).
- Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin explains why the lessening of racial majorities is a bad thing for diversity. Really.
- There’s a new, free version of Refactor! specifically for ASP.net. It’s pretty cool. When I installed it it deleted all of my toolbox snippets in Visual Studio, so be careful about that.
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Thursday link roundup
- Ala. Officials Probe ‘Monster Pig’ Saga
State wildlife officials said Wednesday they want to know how the huge hog dubbed “Monster Pig” got into a fenced hunting preserve where it was chased down and shot to death by an 11-year-old boy.
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weighed 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet, 4 inches from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.
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Jamison was hunting with his father and the guides on May 3 when he killed the giant pig. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50-caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot. - Are you a good liar?
- Microsoft Surface
- Popular Mechanics how to videos
- Ala. Officials Probe ‘Monster Pig’ Saga
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A retort I didn’t say
While I was in Borders today I overheard someone say “I wish they’d just get what they have right instead of coming out with something new”. I think she was talking about Microsoft Vista. I thought, “That’s what they’re doing, they’re just adding a new skin and saying it’s new.” The the “fixed” features create other problems because that’s just the way technology works.
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Random Thursday links
- How to fix the Microsoft Home Page
- Robert Conquest’s 3 Laws of Politics
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
3. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. - More Stirling Engines how to guides – this one looks a bit better than the last one I posted. Here is another one.
- The top 100 web apps for freelancers – mine is not on it, yet.
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A needed innovation
Last night I spent about seven hours trying to get a particular Microsoft web product to work, only to discover at the end of a long search that you simply couldn’t make it work that way. I was trying to update the error message dynamically and have it appear in the VCE
It would be quite handy to have a list of things that a product CAN’T do, it would save so much time trying to prove negatives. Perhaps that should be a new site idea.
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Monday link roundup
- A useful post from CodingHorror.com on interface friction
- Al Gore, like Ann Coulter, seems to be a mac person
- A blog for women! And one of the editors might be someone I went to high school with.
- Kuler! The Adobe web color harmony tool – via this site
- Co-Mapping (mind mapping software) looks cool
- Properly bashing ethanol
- HiddenUnities and PurposeSlog have posts on the Wire and 24. I helpfully added the Shield in the comments. All excellent programs, though 24 is basically a commercial for the cell phone industry, not torture.
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Firefox tip
(via CodePoet) To speed up Firefox
Open Firefox, type about:config into the adress bar, filter on “v6” (this should easily find the ipv6 setting)
Right click it and choose “toggle” and the FOX is back in business.It works quite well.