"Murphy was an optimist!"
Car accident gleason and gallaher view November 11, 2008 5:25 pm
Posted by utterz in : Daily Life, Podcasting
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Is hate worth the trouble? November 11, 2008 3:28 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cathy, Communications, Daily Life, Family, TechnologyI’ve just been on the phone with Sprint because one of their customers has left a pseudo-threatening/hateful comment on my wife’s blog. They advised immediately filing a police report so that their corporate security department could escalate the issue faster than if I handle it myself. I really don’t like giving hateful people this much attention. It’s best if they just go away. People, the Internet is far from anonymous! In cases like this, you don’t leave a bread crumb trail; you leave a paved boulevard.
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Back in Business November 11, 2008 1:22 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeIt could be that Firefox kept running my machine out of memory. I’m going to be watching its memory usage closely to make sure on of the many plugins I use doesn’t have a memory leak. Additionally, I have never cleaned out my bookmarks. That means, every url I bookmarked since Firebird version 0.7 I still had. Also my history had every day’s usage remembered back through June. I deleted every bookmark (since those are all duplicated on Delicious anyway. And I cleared my history (which was a little disconcerting because I do go through that history regularly and pull things out that I need). Back to work.
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Tired of Daylight November 11, 2008 11:44 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeI’m seriously thinking of flipping days and nights. I’d much rather sleep through the day and work through the night.
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3rd crash November 11, 2008 11:04 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life10am and the machine just crashed again. Time to take it apart and troubleshoot.
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Firefox Crash Recovery Fails November 11, 2008 11:01 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Communications, Software, TechnologyMy workstation is having trouble. I suspect a piece of hardware is dying or a huge dust bunny is wrecking havoc inside the case. It spontaneously reboots a few times a day which is not really a problem because I wouldn’t take breaks otherwise and Firefox always comes back in the same state as before the crash…well, almost always. I don’t help myself because of the way I use the computer. I have many apps open at once and typically will have multiple Firefox windows open with 10 to 20 tabs open in each one. This is how I do research and it is typically work related or blog related. In today’s instance I had 4 windows open. 3 were work related and 1 was filled with information I might one day blog about. These are usually just bookmarked at Delicious for that day I finally get a round to it. Considering my machine was having trouble and I had far too many tabs open, I was just starting to bookmark everything and reduce my windows down to the very few I needed when the computer crashed hard. Upon coming back up, Firefox opened to just a single blank window…no tabs. I needed that work related research! I can reproduce it but this is just frustrating!
So, is there a way to tell Firefox, "restore the previous, previous state?" I think I’m faced with scrolling through the mornings history and pulling up pages one at a time.
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This pit is bottomless November 11, 2008 9:43 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : PhilosophyNo one told me Sh*t Creek had waterfalls! And tall waterfalls. With rocks at the bottom. Where’s that paddle?!
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