ivan stojic
life is a low fidelity experience

Googling for Dojo Toolkit pitfalls

July 7th, 2008, 01:32. Uncategorized

Just fething forget it. Most of the stuff that Google will locate is based on Dojo 0.4 or 0.9. It should be against the law to keep that old stuff about.

 

Heads up on scripting the context menu in Firefox 3 with SnapLinks add-on

July 7th, 2008, 01:27. Posted in Programming

The Firefox add-on “SnapLinks” will, when active, play havoc with the context menu scripting.

Specifically, even though you allow context menu scripting in your Firefox settings, create the proper blocking for event propagation and whatnot, SnapLinks will show the context menu.

Disabling the SnapLinks add-on resolves this problem.

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BoingBoing’s “Rule 34″ IRC game

April 19th, 2008, 01:52. Uncategorized

I was there, I logged it. So, here’s the log in all its NSFW glory!

 

OMFG…

January 16th, 2008, 15:00. Posted in Linux

Sun has acquired MySQL AB. From the report:

But the biggest news of the day is… we’re putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP.

Blergh.

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Asus EEE PC emulation

January 14th, 2008, 02:37. Posted in Linux

I’ve taken the time to torrent a rescue CD for Asus’ Eee PC. On it, there’s a complete disk image which I used to configure and run the Eee software inside a Qemu.

From what I have seen in the first hour, the system looks pretty messed up. It’s running Xandros Linux, which is in turn based on Debian. It eschews running the normal boot process through /sbin/init, and instead relies on a binary called /sbin/fastinit. It simply runs startx as user “user”. The terminal is available by hitting Ctrl-Alt-T, defaults to an UTF version of xterm. User “user” is in the sudoers file, so you can just sudo whatever you want.

I’ll be playing around with the default installation for a few days before I decide if it’s of any use or if it should get junked. In the meanwhile, I’ll try to explain to my girlfriend why I need another gadget and maybe even buy it.

The thing that I like the most is that it’s a piece of complete, self contained hardware for a meager price. I mean, I always wanted to have a go at laptop case modding, but price was always an issue. This thing, hell, this is practically free for a PC of these (quite decent) properties.

Anyway, here’s a screenshot of the interface running on my Debian Linux laptop:

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