Archive for January, 2009
Frustrated With Firefox Failing To Properly Render Web Pages?
Jan 6th
The Firefox add on IE Tab solves this problem, though with a continued frustration. With IE Tab you can embed IE in tabs and see web sites as they should be seen. Just click on the IE Tab icon, and the rendering engine switches to IE, while you remain in Firefox. For sites regularly visited, their URL’s can be added to the
IE Tab Site Filter. Neat, but I found myself frustrated with having to frequently add URL’s to the filter. (Go to the IE Tab options, check the enable box under Site Filters, then add URL’s as necessary.) After adding a URL to the site filter, each time you visit that site Firefox and IE Tab will automatically display that site, and all of
its pages, as if in IE Explorer. But you will actually still be in Firefox with all of its benefits.
Frequently adding sites to the site filter is a time consuming step I wanted to eliminate. Then, one recent morning, it struck me how simple this was going to be. I went to the site filter, deleted all those URL’s and added *.* as the only filter. Voila! The best of Firefox and IE together in one place. Now all the foxes are happy. And, by the way, if this slows my computer it isn’t enough for me to notice it. Pages still appear more or less “instantaneously” on my DSL connection.
When did I take that picture? Mark your printed Photos
Jan 5th
Ever wonder when you took that digital picture you had printed?
I haven’t printed any digital photos through my local photo lab in quite a while and my wife recently asked me to get some of our Christmas pictures printed. I pulled out the last batch I had printed and noticed that the file names were printed on the back of my prints by the photo lab. That gave me a good reference point on what I had printed last time and gave me a great idea. If I renamed the pictures to contain the date and time they were taken when I had the next batch printed, I would be able to flip it over and see the date and time I took that picture.
When most digital cameras take a picture it will store the camera model, date/time taken, as well as lots of other stuff in the picture itself in what is called the EXIF data. Now I needed to find a program to read that information.
So I pulled out my favorite file renaming application, ReNamer (http://den4b.com), to see if it happend to know about EXIF and lucky me, it did. So I set up it up with a rule to rename my photo’s. The steps I used are available after the jump.
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Surpress Vista’s Remote Desktop Warning Message – I know already!
Jan 5th
Right out of the box good old Vista will get the following warning every time you try to connect to a Windows 2003 server using Remote Desktop included in Vista.
Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the computer you want to connect to. Yeah and? This is really annoying as most of the machines I connect to are older servers and client workstations – not on VISTA!
If you are in a work environment where you trust the Windows 2003 servers you connect to, you can safely remove this warning by adding an entry to your Vista machine’s Registry:
1. Open Regedit
2. Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client
3. Add The DWORD (32-bit) Value AuthenticationLevelOverride and give it the value 0
That’s it! No need to restart or logout; you can just open a new remote desktop connection to test your changes.
How can I view a web page that used to be there but isn’t anymore?
Jan 5th
Don’t you just hate those Four Oh Four errors? This page can not be displayed…
We wont judge you. Whether it be porn or work related. For good or evil…
The page used to be there. But where did it go? Who cares – We are going to show you how to bring it back!
After being overwhelmed with emails, from amazed readers, after we resurrected the website about the torrent tracker infiltration by a security company. Reader after reader sent us emails inquiring about this magic cache and how to access it.
See the black circle around the word cached? Yup that is your time machine. You will get a snapshot of the page the last time Google crawled it.
Hit this trick/feature up after take down notices or traffic prevents you from seeing what you want to see… Get rid of that a big 404.
Its not always 100 percent functional but it will get you the guts of the site.
How long before Google gets those take down notices for their cache?
Ubuntu Quick Tip: Missing Minimize and Maximize Window Buttons?
Jan 3rd
Hello out there in admin land!
It is I, El Di Pablo here to bring you a quick Ubuntu tip for the week. I haven’t written on aTa in a while due to my hectic schedule, but I am sure you have seen me milling about the comments quite a bit.
Anyhoo, so there I am last night, screwing around on my Ubuntu laptop surfing porn doing homework when I noticed that all of my minimize and maximize buttons were missing from my windows.
The only way to minimize and maximize my windows were to right click on the bottom task bar and select it from the menu. WTF?!?!?
Well, it turns out that those buttons aren’t completely controlled by Gnome. For those buttons, Gnome uses a windows manager call Metacity. To get those buttons back I had to open a terminal and run the following command:
metacity –replace
Once I did that, my buttons came back, and I was able to minimize and maximize like a mofo! Do you have any good Ubuntu tips/tricks you want to share? Hit us up in the comments!
By El Di Pablo of Bauer-Power
Add a different search to your firefox toolbar.
Jan 3rd
Did you know that you can add or change the search engine that sits in your upper right corner of your fox browser?
One of our readers, Alex wanted to replace his default live search with ask or Google. What you have by default depends on where you downloaded your fox from.
Are you always the last to know?? This should help you on your quest for porn Knowledge
