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My favorite mozilla button

The “Never for this site” button is my favorite button to click. That’s lucky for me, because I get to press it over and over. For the same site! Not content with knowing that I don’t want to ever save POST information for a given domain, it will check back with me [...]

Worst word from the internet boom

I think it has to be “webinar”. I don’t know who came up with it or who decided it was OK for large companies to use something that sounds that idiotic, but it must be stopped.
Another one, though not really internet related, that’s all over now is “comcastic”. They really didn’t think that [...]

Open source ipod?

According to slashdot, there’s an open source ipod brewing. I can’t see how this will end well.
If there actually were one, a few things would come of it:

They’ll find some way to confuse Backspace and Delete on their open source iPod
You’ll download new music and if the music was made after 1999 it will [...]

Decent SCSI raid controller with CLI monitoring that doesn’t fail after a while?

We’ve tried many of the regular SCSI cards (lots of adaptec cards, mylex), and if they do have something that lets you check the raid status via the command line, it’s a proprietary binary that uses something asinine like shared memory, which will eventually lock up.
The problem is that most of the time when there’s [...]

What’s up with gnome-terminal’s copy/paste?

It used to be that gnome-terminal was the best terminal (IMO) because of nice font handling, the control-click opening of URLs, a good termcap for use with screen, etc.
Then at some point (a couple years ago), it started going downhill. The biggest problem is the cut and paste. It often misses line feeds, [...]