Author Topic: A random thread for small computing things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 300362 times)

vorsprung · « **Reply #925 on:** 14 November, 2017, 10:01:27 pm »

I've taught myself go and put a project on github with the go stuff in https://github.com/vorsprung/parameter-ssm-template

fuaran · « **Reply #926 on:** 16 November, 2017, 08:39:00 pm »

The new Firefox Quantum seems to be rather fast.
Though the square tabs look ugly. And it seems to have messed up the font sizes on some sites. Especially YACF - everything is rather small. Zooming in works, but it forgets that when I refresh the page.

dave r · « **Reply #927 on:** 17 November, 2017, 06:23:25 pm »

Quote from: fuaran on 16 November, 2017, 08:39:00 pm

The new Firefox Quantum seems to be rather fast.
Though the square tabs look ugly. And it seems to have messed up the font sizes on some sites. Especially YACF - everything is rather small. Zooming in works, but it forgets that when I refresh the page.

I've installed it on my Lubuntu box but cant open it as it gives a parsing error, XML Parsing Error: Undefined Entity location: Chrome:// Browser/content/Browser.xul line number 1165, column 7:

dave r · « **Reply #928 on:** 18 November, 2017, 08:59:28 am »

Quote from: dave r on 17 November, 2017, 06:23:25 pm

Quote from: fuaran on 16 November, 2017, 08:39:00 pm
The new Firefox Quantum seems to be rather fast.
Though the square tabs look ugly. And it seems to have messed up the font sizes on some sites. Especially YACF - everything is rather small. Zooming in works, but it forgets that when I refresh the page.

I've installed it on my Lubuntu box but cant open it as it gives a parsing error, XML Parsing Error: Undefined Entity location: Chrome:// Browser/content/Browser.xul line number 1165, column 7:

Sorted it, uninstalled it, removed the PPA, then installed the normal firefox and upgraded it. Its running OK now, its quick but looks a bit like a tonka toy.

T42 · « **Reply #929 on:** 21 November, 2017, 09:31:59 am »

The provider for our club website changed the handling for .htaccess/.htpasswd some time in the last couple of years, but it went unnoticed because in the meantime El Prez got Serif cut-rate via the FFCT, decided it was the bee's knees and clobbered everything in the www directory. Now he's realizing that he can't put club docs on line for anyone and wants to resurrect the old system I put in, which is still there in a protected subdirectory.

Trouble is, the provider's description of his implementation of .htaccess/.htpasswd doesn't match what the server actually does. I've been batting my head against it for a couple of days and getting nothing but #500.

And fwiw I agreed about FFQ's square-cornered tabs. OK, they want speed and curvy ones take a little longer to draw, but surely not that long.

Noticed in passing that refreshing a page does not refresh the page icon, which is annoying when you're trying various designs.

T42 · « **Reply #930 on:** 21 November, 2017, 09:49:10 am »

And as usual, no sooner bitched about something than the solution emerges: typo in our domain name in the AuthUserFile line.

Now I need to sort out all the dislocated paths... oh Mother.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #931 on:** 24 November, 2017, 12:48:12 pm »

Hurrah: DJ Random has played all the musical tunes in my iTunes library

Bah: A lengthy session of tag-jibbling can no longer be put off

Pingu · « **Reply #932 on:** 25 November, 2017, 11:07:40 am »

Been frobbing with OpenLayers2 and the Flickr API. Wondering if I should try learning OpenLayers3 or just get a life

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #933 on:** 25 November, 2017, 02:22:10 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 24 November, 2017, 12:48:12 pm

Hurrah: DJ Random has played all the musical tunes in my iTunes library

Wow—how many days/weeks?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #934 on:** 25 November, 2017, 06:34:12 pm »

Somewhere north of two years off and on.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #935 on:** 03 December, 2017, 03:29:53 pm »

I have just fixed my Android keyboard not working in Chrome on the Facebook page issue that I've had for aeons, just by turning off auto correct (tho it works fine with predictive text). I wish I'd found that out ages ago.

T42 · « **Reply #936 on:** 04 December, 2017, 08:45:13 am »

All of a sud my W7 will not overwrite a strip the height of a horizontal scroll bar, just above the task bar. Maximized windows stop there, leaving a strip of the background image visible. It'll probably fix itself when I reboot, but ICBA just now.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #937 on:** 05 December, 2017, 07:30:56 pm »

Trying to jibble an Excel spreadsheet to generate something that can be used to create a Several of text files is giving me a headache.

Zipperhead · « **Reply #938 on:** 05 December, 2017, 11:43:30 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 05 December, 2017, 07:30:56 pm

Trying to jibble an Excel spreadsheet to generate something that can be used to create a Several of text files is giving me a headache.

Grasshopper, you need to study harder https://youtu.be/OrwBc6PwAcY

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #939 on:** 06 December, 2017, 05:46:57 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 05 December, 2017, 07:30:56 pm

Trying to jibble an Excel spreadsheet to generate something that can be used to create a Several of text files is giving me a headache.

I have achieved a minor degree of success in that text files of the appropriate format and - crucially - prettiness, can now be produced. With an awful lot of copying and pasting. Now I just need to repeat the exercise four times and hand-jibble about 18,000 numbers

mcshroom · « **Reply #940 on:** 30 December, 2017, 09:09:29 pm »

Why does my computer think it's always in Sunderland? As far as I'm aware it's never even been to Sunderland, and for that matter I don't think I have either

woollypigs · « **Reply #941 on:** 30 December, 2017, 09:11:09 pm »

I either live in outer Manchester or central Bradford according to my IP.

Kim · « **Reply #942 on:** 30 December, 2017, 10:13:33 pm »

Arnold, Nottingham. Which does at least make sense, in a not-really-at-all kind of way.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #943 on:** 31 December, 2017, 10:23:52 am »

Mercifully, Farcebok seems to have got the message that I don't live in York. But it still tells me that I'm simultaneously logged in from London, York and Santa Clara CA

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #944 on:** 31 December, 2017, 10:50:03 am »

Someone keeps attempting to log in to my apple account in Middlesborough. It took ages to work out it's actually me but somewhere else entirely.

Trip Advisor regularly congratulate me on being one of the top reviewers in Sutton. This despite the other part of them knowing exactly where I am and barring me from reviewing local businesses.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #945 on:** 09 January, 2018, 05:40:43 am »

Gentlemen, if your The Product dishes out so many error messages that notepad++ cannot open the log file, because it is too big, there is probably something very wrong at a fairly fundamental level.

Zipperhead · « **Reply #946 on:** 09 January, 2018, 02:06:11 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 09 January, 2018, 05:40:43 am

Gentlemen, if your The Product dishes out so many error messages that notepad++ cannot open the log file, because it is too big, there is probably something very wrong at a fairly fundamental level.

You might wish to meet some of our web developers. They switched on some extra "diagnostics" on all of one of our customers web servers. 20G per server per day. Did they bother to read through all those logs to find what they were looking for? Did they buggery.

Is your bear peckish?

Ham · « **Reply #947 on:** 18 January, 2018, 08:49:35 am »

Fucking Amazon Fucking Search. How the holy hell can they get away with something quite so shit? In here rather than rant coz I might be missing summat essential that might help. Plus it's all a bit of a laugh really.

Previously, I'd really only noticed how shit the book search was. For a purveyor of the written word, this was a bit on the odd side. You want to search for books by Michael Bond? Certainly sir, here are three hundred results including tomes by Dan Brown and Charlotte Rampling. In German. Oh, you've found our little button that specifies the author? Aren't YOU clever. but if you think we're going to help you by taking away the foreign language results or giving you a way to display the results more usefully or even to page through the results faster, you've got another think coming.

Anyhow, I'm after one of the volumes of Atlas des cols des alpes (vol 3). Logical then, I search for it, eh?

(which is a bit of a laugh from the resulting French) OK. Challenge. Let's put quotes around the phrase, that should work eh?

Right Amazon you fuckers. Atlas +des +cols +Alps Yesssssss!!!! Still no useful results on Amazon UK (>£30 for the volume) but I won.

Amazon.fr was my friend, search worked normally and I found someone with a copy for €12

ian · « **Reply #948 on:** 18 January, 2018, 09:00:39 am »

Yes, Amazon.

Looking for a new portable hard drive the other day. Select all the options, select 2TB, sort by price.

Why do I then have to navigate through pages of leads, caddies, plugs before I find an actual entire portable drive?

woollypigs · « **Reply #949 on:** 22 January, 2018, 10:38:18 pm »

Learned something today and confirmed something I knew.

Fired up a guest OS in virtualbox that was created in Linux, on my windows rig. Rather cool that, me thinks, first time I ever tried and needed to do so.

Though I either need to do this more often or have a guest OS without various programs that need to sync and update ever few minutes. As dropbox, skype, outlook and the OS itself etc. Went into up update mode and drained the bandwidth, RAM and CPU while it is trying to figure out what I have been up too in the last five month. So I went to make a cuppa while I wait ...

Author Topic: A random thread for small computing things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 300362 times)

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