Gallery is a steaming pile of monkey poop.
A few months back, I found traces of an attempted hack via Gallery. After doing some investigation, I found that my version had some serious gaping security holes.
Today, I happened to notice that within the last week, my entire Gallery installation had deleted itself (in a fit of existentialism, no doubt). Poof. Gone. There was no longer a directory called gallery/ .
Yes, Outlook Express sucks monkey nuts.
Sadly, there’s not a better email client for Windows .. or at least one that will work with my broken work mailserver.
OE has been taking three to four minutes to start up for a while now, and I just discovered why: it’s attempting to load all of my Instant Messaging clients, and is failing because I’ve manually removed Microsoft Messenger.
In some versions of OE, the option for disabling this ‘feature’ is missing. However, you can edit the registry to prevent OE from attempting to start messaging clients.
Robert wrote a great response to the previous post about proxies:
Just wanted to remind all you firewall busters out there that this doesn’t actually obscure your traffic at all. All this does is get around corporate firewalls with stupid restrictions. They can still see what you’re doing and you still get fired for looking at porn.
The reason for this is obvious after thinking about how the proxies work. The site mentions that some of these anonymize your traffic and thats true. The remote host may never know where you connected from. But in order to connect TO the proxy you still need to go through the firewall at work. That’s why they can still see what you’re doing.
Here’s a list of open proxies, for all your firewall-busting needs.
I’ve been playing with Unsanity‘s Window Shade X public preview. One of the nice new features of version 3 is “Minimize In Place”.
Suggestion for WSX3:
MIPed windows should [do something] when their dock icon is clicked. Right now I can’t decide what that something is; I think that perhaps a double-click should maximize all of them.
MIP iTunes, and open Safari. Now, consider your mouse movements. In order to maximize the MIPed iTunes, if the Safari window hides the iTunes MIP, you must first either cmd-tab to iTunes or click the icon, then click the MIPed window. Thus your mouse at worst travels from the center of the screen to the bottom of the screen, then almost to another edge of the screen, just to maximize a MIPed window.
Saturday, Laura told me we had mold in the hallway. Even though I wanted to keep it for a pet [“Sparky! Play dead! Now make penicillin!”], she said we had to get rid of it. My response was “I have no idea how to get rid of mold.”
This is why I have parents, I guess. And Google.
Upon the recommendation of Mom and Uncle Google, we had to do several things to remove the mold, and to keep it from coming back. First, as the mold was on the ceiling and the upper parts of the walls in the hallway, Laura had to scrubbed the area with bleach water. Next, we’re leaving a light on in the hallway.
This page has a manual and a quick reference guide to Picazo phones.
Answers to Tara‘s interview questions:
1. What’s your favorite potato dish (for example, mashed potato, loaded baked potato, scalloped, etc)?
1a. Mmm, mashed taters. Mashed taters is good taters. Gotta fear them unmashed taters. They might rise up and overthrow the gubmint. They’d be dictaters then.
2. Describe the weirdest experience you’ve ever had while driving.
2a. Stop signs. I just noticed them last week. Really annoying. You people have put up with those things for how long?