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[link] 2006-09-06T10:01:30 hiding firefox bars: There are some web pages that I want to leave on my screen a lot, e.g. my tiddlywiki page. I would like a firefox command to hide all menus/toolbars/statusbars at once, and only for my selected windows. The closest I have right now is some menu options that turn off most of the bars, but I can't turn off the top menubar. But, the settings affect future windows I create unless I undo them, and that workflow is a pain. I'd prefer one key to show/hide the UI, like photoshop's tab key (toggles all palettes on and off). While we're at it, there should be a page mangler that collapses any empty elements so that my always-on-screen page can take up minimal space. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/786/ may be relevant, haven't tried it yet. also http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=36979#4
[link] 2006-09-07T22:45:49 procmail lock failure: My procmail runs every 2 min and gathers an mbox (over nfs) from one box and delivers maildir on another box. The procmail-runner uses lockfile-create/touch/remove to supposedly protect from repeated processing of the same mbox contents, but that lock failed somehow. Cron jobs piled up, and the same message got delivered dozens of times. Every message was going though spambayes, which helped throttle things. So thanks, fdupes author and ubuntu packagers, for helping me get everything cleaned up in about 10 minutes. I just ran "fdupes -f .path.to.affected.folder/cur | xargs rm" a few times, slowed the procmail down until I feel like looking into that problem, and everything's fine again. I used to use fslint a lot, but fdupes showed up first in a package search. I'm also using delicious now (http://del.icio.us/drewpca) since bloglines screwed up and is hiding my hundreds of saved articles. Delicious looks like a better way to gather articles, and they're probably less likely to screw up on their core function than bloglines is to screw up one of its side functions. Bloglines, if you at least send me the links to all the articles I had marked as keep-new, I'll post an update here saying that you did.
[link] 2006-09-28T21:25:38 new monitor: For the third time, one of my two CRT monitors broke and I got a replacement via craigslist.org for about $100 (and a few hours of driving). This one came from Mountain View. I now have a
http://www.superwarehouse.com/NEC_MultiSync_FE2111SB-BK_Black_22_CRT_Monitor/FE2111SB-BK/p/203914
and a
http://reviews.cnet.com/NEC_MultiSync_FE1250/4507-3175_7-1524466.html?tag=nav The dead one (FE1250+) never matched in color very well, but the new one matches very well. Stores really aren't carrying CRTs anymore, so I hope that when my craigslist sources eventually dry up, I can get the same resolution with a few LCD monitors. Today, a 1920x1200 LCD monitor is about $800.
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