Posted by tHeSiD
on August 28th, 2008
Now that Firefox 3 has been out for a while, most of the extensions that you used in Fx2 will work in Fx3. Here is a list of all the extensions that I use and recommend to others. They are many, but they are all worth it. Here is the list :
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Out of those I would strongly recommend all Adblock extensions, Gmail Manager, keyconfig, Liveclick, Piclens (CoolIris), Secure Login, Tab mix plus. And if you are a web devloper, Firebg and Web Developer toolbar are a must. The others are just either cosmetic or tweaks, but they make a hell of a difference when browsing.
Firefox extensions in action
Posted by tHeSiD
on December 5th, 2007
WOW! Amazing game really. The gameplay is impressive and the graphics are amazing. But the game is really buggy, it gets really annoying. It swaps even on a 2Gig machine resulting in a choppy movement.
The worst issue of all is the disappearing saved games. I don’t know where they are stored. I completed almost half the game in Hardcore level and when I restarted the game, puff! all the saved games vanished. I did create a live player profile. It worked perfectly till act 2. I entered Act 3 and then they vanish. Some people say they are stored on a Live account, but I don’t think that is my case because I don’t have a live account nor I let it connect to the Internet. I’ve been searching online for a good explanation and hopefully a fix, but found nothing yet.
Its a great game no doubt, but these small issues are really annoying and spoil the fun!
** Just installed the new Gears of Wars Patch #1, Hope this works, will install the live redistributable and see if anything works out.
Posted by tHeSiD
on January 27th, 2007
Someone has to design a garbage collector for Firefox, Its eating every byte I have! All the other browsers are under the same conditions.. 1/2hr of browsing each. Opera lowest as you can see.. and VirtualDub running encoding a RAW AVI didnt need any memory. It doesn’t matter to me but on slower systems its a pain. People of the Moz! fix the damn leaks! please!
Posted by tHeSiD
on November 16th, 2006
Well just installed Office 2007, don’t ask where I did get it from. Its amazing though. It looks great, feels great, and is much easier to use. Being an irregular Blogger I was always interested in applications integrating blogging, long ago found one or two but they weren’t that easy that they could replace the web UI altogether. Word 2007 has it built in now, so its nice that I can write blogs offline save them and then post them. There is one down side to all this though, all the new office applications are huge memory hogs, and even Outlook takes a lot of memory. Even on the monster with 1.5G Dualchannel DDR400 it feels sluggish. Maybe I have to defrag and optimize my sys to see if its any better.
Also finished downloading the new Windows Vista RTM and I’m dying to test it, but there is no way in hell that I would do it on the monster, so lined up Vik’s and my dad’s sys to test it. Wait, dad’s systems got only 512M RAM, damn it, VIK your sys is my only test bed now don’t let me down!! I shall get back to playing NFS Carbon now. Yes yes I have exams, screw them. Its Advanced data structures exam the day after anyway. It is an area where I’m so good that if you wake me up in deep sleep and ask me some strange question in that subject I’ll probably answer it.
In the end overall reviewing of Office results in a 8/10 rating from me. Good job M$! hope your Vista is better.
“Why does this happen every month? It seems like right about the same time every month, Kyle’s mom gets a hair up her @ss about something, and I always end up getting screwed by it.” – Cartman
Posted by tHeSiD
on November 3rd, 2006
I installed Fedora Core 6 on my monster. Finally… after 2 and half years since I bought this babe, I have a dual boot. At the expense of a RAID0 set though.
FC6 is almost same as all the other FCs but… it now has the AIGLX (Accelerated blah blah.. ) which makes it more Vista-ish. I tell you its just amazing. The window animations, the water/rain effects, the whole virtual desktop cube concept.. everything. I would recommend everyone to install it and check it out at least once. Downside though is that the installation and configuration process for AIGLX will take you through a complete Intermediate user tour, a boon and also a bane if you consider the time it takes.
Above all that, I had a serious problem, none of the apps, Yum especially seemed to connect to the internet, except luckily firefox. After hours and hours of troubleshooting, googling foruming, the I diagnosed it as a DNS malfunction on Linux’s side. Well Linux has problems with my Router being a DNS forwarded instead of a DNS Server. I took almost 8-9 hours altogether to figure the problem out and solve it. It was only after that I was able to setup AIGLX n other stuff.
I wanted to write a complete tut and a demo on that.. will do that soon ;) just gotta find time.. driving a lot lately…
Posted by tHeSiD
on July 21st, 2006
It all started when I wanted to search for a document I stored a month ago. I couldn’t find it anywhere as I couldn’t remember its name, so I used the built in windows search. I disable the indexing engine as soon as I install the OS, and so none of the files on the disk were indexed and the normal search couldn’t find what I was looking for. It was then; I felt the need of a desktop search tool. Once on Slashdot I was reading an article on some topic related to desktop search wherein a hippie wrote that Google should be scared about X1 Desktop search engine being made free. He also bragged about how great an indexing engine it is. I was convinced and decided to give it a try, a 12MB download which took almost a full night to finish on my gay ass connection, I was all set to install it.
That evening I installed it and set it to the recommended indexing aggressiveness. It was running all night, the next day morning and also even when I came back home the next day. It was almost 20 hours since it started and it was still indexing, saying “Optimizing file index”. It used almost all possible resources available; I decided to free all the resources by rebooting the system.
It shut down and restarted posted well and everything was normal till the Intel RAID (ICH5R) bios showed up. It was showing the HDDs’ status as “Unknown” for both the 160G 7200.7s on the controller. In my experience I have seen “Normal” and “Error Occurred” but I have never seen “Unknown”. After a couple of reboots one disk showed up as “Normal” but the other didn’t, even after checking it with 4-5 HDD diagnostic tools like Sea Tools, MHDD etc. The “Unknown” status was holding back the controller in detecting the RAID0 (Stripe) Set. As a last attempt I used Norton Disk Doctor, and NDD without any user intervention, said something about fixing the drive and started doing something all on its own. I lost all hopes at that moment, I had to wave goodbye to my 320GB data. All the little hopes I had of retaining the data were lost when the RAID bios reported both the disks as “Normal” but wasn’t able to detect the previous RAID set. I was mortified! All the 320GB data gone! Vanished!
What was the reason? X1. It tried to index every byte of the files in the RAID partition; the HDDs couldn’t take that torture and failed one after another. All the 320G data was nothing but videos, yes 95% of the data was either movies or TV series, and I still don’t know what X1 was indexing in those files. Key frames? What ever it did, it was the reason I lost 320Gigs of data. It didn’t really bother me because I have seen almost every byte on those disks, so I am not that disturbed as I was be when I lost my 5600XT. Fortunately both the disks are under warranty and I am absolutely sure ill be getting new disks when I claim the warranty, some good news at last.
X1 will never be forgotten. It reached the top of my “Worst Software ever” list, right above Norton Antivirus 2002. The next time I see such suggestions by hippies on Slashdot, I’ll openly flames their asses.
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