Wandering Words

Installed Firefox 3.5 Release today and was immediately annoyed at the extra "New Tab" or "Create Tab" button tab that they added to the tab bar. No config option anywhere to turn it off. If you'd like to manually make it go away, you can do so in the userChrome.css file in your Profile directory. You can Google away for Mozilla Profile information and for userChrome.css files if you like. Basically, find your profile directory, add a directory called "chrome" if one doesn't exist and create or edit the userChrome.css file. Insider of it, make sure you have the following:

.tabs-newtab-button {
  display: none;
}

Voila, no more extra tab to create new tabs in Firefox 3.5. Hopefully they add a preference for that, or make it available at least through about:config if no were else.

Have to come back and edit further later...

I was talking to my mom this weekend and she was telling me how my step-dad was planting just a few tomato plants this year for their garden. That lead to the discussion of what you "have to have" in your garden. I realized growing up planting a garden every year was something I was very happy to have done as a kid. We were poor, so it was actually important, more important than I knew then, but looking back on it, it wasn't just a luxury having all of those fresh vegetables, it was a necessity.

So, when I finally find the time (more importantly gumption) to plant a garden as adult what do I want in it? I think we can do most of this in raised beds, so space doesn't seem to be an issue.

Vegetable Garden:
(2) Heirloom Tomato
(2) Cherry Tomato
(2) Cucumber
(2) Yellow Squash
(2) Zucchini
(2) Green Bell Pepper
(2) Okra
(2) Green Beans
(2) Lima Beans
(2) Green Peas
(2) Black Eyed Peas
(2) Watermelon
(2) Cantaloupe
(2) Honey Dew Melon
(6) Celery
(12) Carrots
(12) Romaine Lettuce
(12) Scallions
(12) White Onions
(12) Red Onions
(6) Yukon Gold Potatoes
(6) Red Potatoes
(24) Corn Stalks

Herb Garden:
(2) Basil
(2) Oregano
(2) Thyme
(2) Mint
(6) Garlic

This morning when I woke up and picked up my BlackBerry Bold I noticed something I hadn't seen before from my home here in Winchester, VA... "3G" instead of "EDGE". I was ecstatic... and amazed! At first I imagined that the "3G" just got stuck from my commute from the other side of the Blue Ridge mountains, but turning off the WiFi connection to check out the speed easily proved to me that I really did have a speedy connection.

Of course, the AT&T coverage map isn't updated yet, but it really is here! Yay! Searching the Internet I also found a new blog, GottaBeMobile. A local gentleman, who is the Artistic Director at a local theater in the area, is one of the editors there. Good to see other folks who love technology here in the valley.

A friend turned me on to The Omnivore's Hundred which is a blog post about the 100 foods that every omnivore should try. The instructions were as follows:

Here's a chance for a little interactivity for all the bloggers out there. Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a good omnivore should really try it all. Don't worry if you haven't, mind you; neither have I, though I'll be sure to work on it. Don't worry if you don't recognize everything in the hundred, either; Wikipedia has the answers.

Here's what I want you to do:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you've eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

I also numbered the entries I hadn't tried yet. Those are the numbers to the right in parenthesis on some items. One item I couldn't find on the first page of Google results and the entry on Wikipedia seemed to indicate it was NOT something edible. I also added my own addition to the end which I think should have made the list.

I've went through and tagged every previous entry with various keywords. I noticed one thing very quickly, I have a lot of meta posts (just like this one) about the blog itself. It was also interesting to see that I posted more personal (feelings, not data) stuff than I'd ever planned on doing. I thought about going back and deleting it, but with the Wayback Machine archiving most if not all Internet content for everyone to view... why bother. I'll leave them here. I'm a human being, just like most folks reading this blog, so yes, I have feelings and have been in love and have folks that taught me things growing up. :)

One of the tags I used was "high horse" these are the entries where I pontificate on one subject or another. I'll be upfront and state that my opinions may come across stronger (or weaker) than they were and they might be totally different now... so read what you will into them.

Enjoy!

Thanks to our local Blog Admin Wizard, Chip... we have a new version of Movable Type up and running. I love the new interface, it rocks. :)

Wow. What a weekend. Decided to upgrade MySQL to allow the upgrades of a couple of other things on the server, and it was a "downhill" event. Everything looked good when I went to bed last night at about 1am. But then when I woke up this morning, Apache was down.

Too long of a story to post, but let us just say that there are many things now upgraded and all once again working in harmony.

I've updated my Wireshark Coloring Rules. They work on a 2.6Ghz Mac Book Pro running 10.5.4 and Wireshark 1.0.2. I had to remove some of the Analysis Flags due to TCP & CRC Offloads of the Mac Book's Ethernet NIC... well, I think. :)

NANOG43 is in Brooklyn, NY this year. These are my rough notes if I have any. Also, I'll not link to every topic if I'm not all that interested in the subject. You can find the agenda with links to most if not all of presentations. If you have questions about any of them, feel free to seek me out.

Security BOF
Updates from various Security groups and call for participation.

Community Meeting
Pretty quiet meeting actually. MLC wasn't nearly the hot topic that I believe everyone was expecting.

Keynote
Jay Adelson, CEO of Digg
Views from the Other Side: Confessions of a Guilty Customer

Lots of discussion about being the customer side. Mostly light like the Keynotes have been at NANOG so far, but had some nuggets as all things can. Jay is a very good speaker, but being a serial entrepreneur he kind of has to be.

Coolest thing from pres was at the end when he put up: http://labs.digg.com/swarm/

Peering Wars: Lessons learned from the Cogent-Telia Depeering
Martin Brown, Alin Popescu, & Earl Zmijewski, Renesys Corporation

Favorite quote: "Being a tier 1 is not easy. You will be punished if you are perceived to be in a position of weakness."

Internet Traffic Trends -- A View from 67 ISPs
Craig Labovitz, Danny McPherson, Mike Hollyman & Scott Iekel-Johnson, Arbor Networks

78 ISPs now... sharing data every hour, 5 minute aggregate data
5 MSOs, 4 Tier1s, 15 Tier2s, 4 Content Providers, 1 R&E, rest did not self-classify
1300 routers

Every time I get a new Mac, I always end up losing the line drawing font in X11 for some of the older ANSI apps that I still use. Fortunately I Google search and find the same post that tells me how to do it on Slashdot.

So, I'm tired of having to search for that every time, plus the answer is buried deep in standard Slashdot "First Posts" and other drivel, so hopefully this entry gets picked up by Google for a good simple place to answer the question of: How do I get ANSI line drawing characters in Mac OSX or at least Mac OSX X11?

And the very simple answer, by an anonymous coward who I can never thank enough:

1. Go download sabvga.pcf at: http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/ansifont.html
2. Place sabvga.pcf in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
3. cd to that dir and run "sudo mkfontdir"
4. Fire up X11 in your Utilities folder
5. Open an Xterm and run "xtern -fn sabvga"