I’m feeling extra geeky lately, so I’m going to install Fedora Core 3 (whenever I get some time, that is).
I think I’m going to set up an extra computer and install it so I can use it as a development server (leave it running for others to have access too), with no monitor. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll just use VMWare.
With Firefox approaching 10% of the browser market, the browser war debates are reaching an all time high — especially on the tech sites and forums I visit.
IE still holds about 90% (possibly above, depending on what sources you look to), but FF is the first browser to threaten IE’s dominance.
I realize arguing about what browser is more 1337 then the other is plain stupid, I still like to know why anyone would use IE. Page rendering? No… Standards support? Definitely not… Features? Not that either… Then why? Are people just too lazy to switch? With all of the serious IE holes, and the time it takes to patch them, I would at least switch because of that. I mean, FF has its own share of bugs (which is acceptable, considering it’s still not gold yet), but the most serious of them are fixed fairly quickly.
So if you are an IE user — tell me, why oh why do you still use it? There are countless articles reviewing browsers, and there have been countless times where people have recommended to ditch IE (ditch IE plain and simple, to switch to any other browser — not only FF).
With the tech-savvy population, the stats indicate a percentage of over 20% of people use a non-IE browser. I wonder if the trend will catch on, especially with the rumors about a Google browser based off of Firefox.
Well, it’s reached the point where Chroder.com is getting spam comments. I’ve put in some filtering to try and stop some of it, but if it get’s bad I’ll have to enable comment moderation. Most of the comments are on older submissions (I guess for Google bots to pick up or something), so I doubt you saw any.
*sigh*
The next two weeks are tough. There are soooo many things we gotta do with school. It seems like all the teachers ganged up and went, “Yeah, lets piss off those damn kids and give all the unit tests and mid-term tests within a 2 week period. Hell, let’s throw in some assignments too.”
I know it, they’re all against us.
I went out and bought a new hard drive today. A nice WD 160gig S-ATA drive 
I’m so dumb too. My mind was somewhere else… I installed the hardware, then the RAID controllers, but it wasn’t showing up. I started thinking I was forgetting something — and I was. Duh, it has to be formatted first. 
Tomorrow I’m going to install Windows on it. It’s a little more tough because you’ve got to load extra drivers onto a floppy. Maybe I’ll just slipstream the drivers along with SP2 onto a CD. Depends on how lazy I’m feeling.
It’s about time for a fresh install anyway 
I’ve got a cold, and it makes me sooo sleeeeeepppy…
Chroder.com recently hit the 10,000 page load mark. Woo!
Canadian money is cool I got some new twenties (as in, the newer designed ones) and took a pic of them. They’re so cool, all colorful and shiny Click.
Well, it’s the weekend! Woo I can catch up on sleep now. Why the hell do all things start in the morning?
I wonder if there’s a study or statistic about the percentage of the population that are “night” or “morning” people. I’m definately a night person. When I wake up, I’m grumpy for a good 45 mins.
The last two weeks have been really busy, I think it’ll die down soon though. School is taking up a huge part of my time, which I really really hate. Then on the side I try to get as much work done on things that need to be done (DB3 mainly) while trying to maintain a life
Nothing bad about being busy though, makes you appreciate being not busy once you get some time
Of course, playing Pool with Dave is fun
Thought I’d add a cool little emotion up top, represents the daily mood. If anyone cares Click on the little caption under the image to read about my complaints
Also got rid of the “post overview”, moved Google ads to bottom. Cleaner IMO.
Well, our new name is Outershift (that’s Outer Shift, not Outers Hift :-P). Doesn’t have “soft” or “ware” in it, but it’s a dot com and it sounds cool
So whenever we release anything, it will be under the name of Outershift. The DNS’s haven’t updated yet, so I put up a little temp page to show off my leet placeholder clickety.
I was just fiddling with mod_rewrite, so if you saw lots of error pages that’s why
The reason being, I wanted to put all the files for chroder.com into a different directory and have all the URL’s rewritten to it, that way my home directory is nice and tidy against all the other addon domains I’ve got.
But it didn’t seem to want to work!
Well, I ordered the free SP2 on CD from MS about two weeks ago, and it came in today.
I don’t know why I ordered it, but I did and it’s here :-P.
Today was the first day back after the 4 day weekend, and we didn’t feel like doing work again in programming class. Today, I went above and beyond the last “version” of the Tubgirl popup script. The only real change to the script was a little bit of code I added to randomly focus different windows (which combined with the lag of the slow school computers, made it very difficult to ALT+F4).
To be extra annoying, we set the “Active Desktop” (where you can specify a web page to act as your desktop) to a custom scripted web page. With the background of the web page identical to the real default background on all school computers, you couldn’t even tell the difference. With some tricky JS, I got the popups to begin in 5 second intervals. This time the popups were full screen too.
So we all had a good laugh, again. I think I need to stop now, though, because if the school finds out I’ll be banned from the computers.
I found this site today, isn’t that super cool! There have been countless times where I want to sign up quick for something — now you can! Stick in any email and read the mail instantly, no more signing up for multiple hotmails
Well, it’s Thanksgiving tomorrow. But since it’s Monday and everyone has to go back to work/school on Tuesday, we always have our Thanksgiving dinners on Sunday.
So my grandparents came, Kelli and Ryan stayed too, then my parents and me. The dinner was pretty good, though I’m not a big fan of turkey (I’m a steak person :-P). Nonetheless, I ate a lot
So all you fellow Canadians, I hope your Thanksgiving will be great. And for the Americans, get with the times — Thanksgiving is in October!
I registered my-specs.com tonight.
I’m going to set up a site… Well, it’s quite a stupid idea but it might just catch on. People are always putting their computer specs in their signatures on computer forums, so I’m going to make it so users can create a list of their computer specs and they can use a generated image in their sigs. Beside being used for that, they have a place that lists all their stuff. So when they post a “I need help”, they can link to their my-specs profile and list it all.
So a pretty dumb concept, but low maintenance and it might catch on.
I’ve got an extra vBulletin license hanging around and I need a use for it. Any idea’s?
Those are the things that would be the best, but I can’t think of an original topic that fits into any of them.
If you have any idea’s, let me know!