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Automatically insert furigana / ruby / rubi readings in Firefox #
Furigana Injector looks up the readings for kanji words and inserts them as furigana. Optionally install XHTML Ruby Support for rendering furigana above text instead of inline.

/misc | Mar 07, 2010

Gitso (remote support for Windows, Linux, OS X) updated to 0.6 #
Aaron Gerber kindly informs us of an update to the insanely awesome, open source, cross-platform remote support app that he and Derek Buranen (along with several other contributors) have continued to craft over the past several years, Gitso:
  • Complete rewrite of processes
  • Stop VNC Processes (Windows)
  • Support loading remote hosts file
  • Command line switches
    • --dev
    • --listen
    • --connect IP
    • --list list_file
    • --version
    • --help
  • Man page (Linux)
  • Support for .rpms
  • Native VNC listener (OS X)
  • Better process management, user gets notified if connection is broken
  • Licensing updates (across the board)
  • Many bug fixes

/misc | Feb 21, 2010

Keynes is whack, yo. #

/misc | Jan 30, 2010

Dell MFP 3115cn network scanning error: Network Not Ready 016-790 #
When connected to a network, the Dell 3115cn can send scans to a SMB share or FTP server. The setup process could be clearer, as evidenced by posts like these: We resolved a "Network Not Ready 016-790" error message from the panel: SCAN > Scan Defaults > Network Port > changed interface from the unused wireless to wired. This can also be done from the web interface: Printer Settings > Printer Settings > Scan Defaults > Network Port. While you're there, here are the SMB settings that worked for us:
  1. Address Book > Server Address > Create
  2. Name: enter a short, friendly name
  3. Server Type: SMB
  4. Server Address: use static IP of SMB server
  5. Server Port Number: 139
  6. Login Name and Login Password: account which exists on SMB server and has access to the shared directory
  7. Share Name: name of shared directory
  8. Server Path: blank

/misc | Jan 23, 2010

Google does the right thing #
A new approach to China: "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."

UPDATE: Apparently this was all talk, no walk:

Google co-founder: Maybe we'll stay in China after all - A month after storming the moral high-ground over China's hacking activities, Sergey Brin has declared the firm is happy to get off its high horse and kick its heels in the country a little longer.

/misc | Jan 13, 2010

Two newly-added floppy OSes #
  • Green Award KolibriOS 0.7.7.0 [1440k] {S}+ A small x86 assembler hobby operating system, forked from MenuetOS in 2004.  Screenshot
  • Green Award Visopsys 0.69 [1440k] {S}+ A fully multitasking, 100% protected mode, virtual-memory, massively-monolithic-style kernel with a bare-bones C library and minimal suite of applications.  Screenshot

/misc | Dec 31, 2009

Black screen with many white exclamation points / marks on boot... #
was due to a failing EVGA e-GeForce 8800GT video card. Pulled the card and exclamation points were gone for good.

black screen with white exclamation points

Could not find any definitive information or solution on the web, though there were a few similar complaints:

/misc | Dec 29, 2009

Downloading DjVu files from Internet Archive (archive.org) #
Clicking DjVu book links on archive.org opens them in a Java applet within the web browser, with no option to save. Right clicking and "saving link as..." results in a tiny HTML file being downloaded instead. Here's how to download the actual DjVu file (we'll use H.G. Wells' The wonderful visit in this example):
  1. Right click and copy the DjVu link: http://www.archive.org/stream/wonderfulvisit00welluoft/wonderfulvisit00welluoft.djvu
  2. Paste the link into your browser's address bar
  3. Add an extra forward slash before "stream": http://www.archive.org//stream/wonderfulvisit00welluoft/wonderfulvisit00welluoft.djvu
  4. Press Enter to begin downloading the DjVu file
UPDATE: The DjVu file can also be downloaded from the directory listing: simply click the "HTTP" link to the right of "All Files:" to access.

/misc | Dec 27, 2009

Reading HTML files on a Kindle #
  • Kindle 1: Change HTML extension to TXT and copy file to the Kindle's documents folder - it will appear on the Home screen. Simple HTML formatting is preserved.
  • Kindle 2: Copy HTML file to Kindle's documents folder, launch Basic Web browser, and enter file URL as follows: file:///mnt/us/documents/filename.html
(Via Kindle browser to read html files)

/misc | Dec 27, 2009

Ensign, Demint to force vote on health care bill unconstitutionality #
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and John Ensign (R-Nevada), raised a Constitutional Point of Order on the Senate floor against the Democrat health care takeover bill on behalf of the Steering Committee, a caucus of conservative senators. The Senate will vote tomorrow on the bill's constitutionality.

"I am incredibly concerned that the Democrats' proposed individual mandate provision takes away too much freedom and choice from Americans across the country," said Senator Ensign. "As an American, I felt the obligation to stand up for the individual freedom of every citizen to make their own decision on this issue. I don't believe Congress has the legal authority to force this mandate on its citizens."

"Forcing every American to purchase a product is absolutely inconsistent with our Constitution and the freedoms our Founding Fathers hoped to protect," said Senator DeMint. "This is not at all like car insurance, you can choose not to drive but Americans will have no choice whether to buy government-approved insurance. This is nothing more than a bailout and takeover of insurance companies. We're forcing Americans to buy insurance under penalty of law and then Washington bureaucrats will then dictate what these companies can sell to Americans. This is not liberty, it is tyranny of good intentions by elites in Washington who think they can plan our lives better than we can."

Americans who fail to buy health insurance, according to the Democrats' bill, would be subject to financial penalties. The senators believe the bill is unconstitutional because the insurance mandate is not authorized by any of the limited enumerated powers granted to the federal government. The individual mandate also likely violates the "takings" clause of the 5th Amendment.

The Democrats' healthcare reform bill requires Americans to buy health insurance "whether or not they ever visit a doctor, get a prescription or have an operation." If an American chooses not to buy health insurance coverage, they will face rapidly increasing taxes that will rise to $750 or 2% of their taxable income, whichever is greater.

The Congressional Budget Office once stated "A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States."

A legal study by scholars at the nonpartisan Heritage Foundation concluded: "An individual mandate to enter into a contract with or buy a particular product from a private party, with tax penalties to enforce it, is unprecedented-- not just in scope but in kind--and unconstitutional as a matter of first principles and under any reasonable reading of judicial precedents." (emphasis mine)

Source

/misc | Dec 22, 2009

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