Rinaldi’s Random Rants

Yeah just want to remind you all about Firefox download day 2008 to set the World Record! we hope Make your pledge now, and wait for the download day which is some time in June. If you just love this apps, let’s join

What the hell is this?!

Apparently it’s the new invalid certificate warning from  Firefox 3, very much different than the previous version 2 which consist of Accept, Do Not Accept, Yes, and Cancel button on a pop-up window. It’s good, though for some average Joe this might seem a little bit confusing. Some might think there’s some connection problem or something and don’t know how to move on.

Here’s another one. What’s wrong with people and using the right certificate?

And.. for all of you who still using Firefox 2, why don’t you give it a little test drive for Firefox 3 RC 1. It’s waaaaaayyy better than Firefox 2 in the term of performance and bugs. Much lower memory usage, and you will never think a crash as a usual thing again like the previous version Mind you, still a lot of addons don’ t compatible yet, but then again this is a Release Candidate, so be patient If you still love your addons, just the portable one, no problemo.

Don’t ask me why, maybe fajran knows. All I know is, sometimes it gave me a frustatingly 5 to 15 Kbps speed only. How about other “officially” Indonesian mirror? PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia, IndikaNet, and Ubuntu.indika.net.id-archive2 each have one week behind update, so they may not too appealing for you omg-i-need-the-latest-update-now-fast people.

What you want is NCHC server from our Taiwanese friend, with 20Gbps and only one day behind update. I got 150+ kbps with this one. Here’s the address you might want to try.

deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ YOUR_DISTRO_SERIES_HERE main
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ YOUR_DISTRO_SERIES_HERE main

Solution taken from: http://linuxfud.wordpress.com/2006/08/13/gdm-login-screen-resolution-too-big-to-fit-screen-try-this/

When I upgrade my Gutsy into Hardy, my login screen went crazy. It’s resolution changed so it seems like cropped from the monitor. Dunno what’s went wrong since I never changed the xorg.conf file. This is one solution that you might find handy.

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Choose the resolution you want for the login (say, 1280 x 1024)
edit your xorg.conf file.

In the Section “Screen”, SubSection “Display”, you have two entries:
Modes and Virtual.

For the login, X will default to the first resolution defined in the “mode” entry. Thus, you must select the resolution you want (say, “1280×1024@60?) and move it at the first position.

Next, the “Virtual” entry is used to have a larger desktop resolution than screen resolution (you can reach the zones “outside the screen” by moving your mouser pointer to the edges). Your Virtual section should have the same size you want for the login resolution (say 1280 1024).

Well on my case, apparantly the “Virtual” section was missing from my xorg.conf . After a little fix, my login screen was smooth as ever

Yeah, you can see for yourself. I’m not saying anything about Windows or anything here, just want you to see picture

Why I want to sign up for Windows Live? It’s because I think I’m gonna need it someday. But then again, who chat with Live Messenger anyway? at least here in Indonesia, they use Yahoo! (warning, smart ass assumption without proper research background )

Talking about messenger, you should try Digsby. It’s totally great and has some features that I think way better than Pidgin.

Lets start with a quote from a great man, sir Sherlock Holmes.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Taken from The Five Orange Pips, page 225.

Sounds great, but how in the world we implement such a thing? How we divide information bits by bits and separate them to be useful or less useful? But then again, useful or less useful in the term of what? job? personality? one human being in a community? lots of question here.