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Moment of sadness and coincidence

Channel 2 showed Zero Hour‘s episode of Estonia (ship, not country) today. Very sad to watch even if I was only attending first grade at that time and had, thankfully, no personal contact with this catastrophe.

That reminded me of a picture I have of the memorial in Stockholm. Before I went to look it up in my photo album, I did a Google image search. The first picture on results page was from mereblog.com, site I don’t think I’ve visited before. To my surprise one picture used there and the one found in Google search is from 7is7.com, web page of Otto, active Mozilla contributor from Estonia. Odd. Not the picture or the taker but that I arrived there doing a random search. Perhaps randomness hard to reach is not only an issue in computer science but also in life in general.

The picture itself is another story. After 11th grade I got to participate in an award trip to Sweden with other more-successful-than-average students. After having visited Vaasa museum I was walking around the place as I had some extra time. I didn’t know where the memorial was as nobody had told us it’s nearby so it caught me by surprise when I suddenly realised I had just walked into it (it’s three stone walls in a triangle-like shape). Didn’t have much time, but managed to shoot one picture still, text is completely unreadable though.

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Bad, bad Kubuntu

My Kubuntu occasionally finds it hard to hibernate. First I thought that the swap partition was too small and this was reported in system log too sometimes. But this is not always the case. It was happening in Karmic and continues to happen in Lucid that I installed week ago. This is mostly annoying only though. I should really try to find out the real cause.

As it didn’t hibernate again last night I went for shutdown. All seemed fine. My first boot this morning was to Kubuntu, check email, hibernate, done. The second boot was into Windows 7 because TTCN-3 tool I need for class only works in Windows. Still all good, working, applying Windows updates, reboot, shutdown.

And then I booted to Kubuntu again. Whole networking system was down. Right-clicking network manager reveals “Networking disabled”. iwl3945 driver does some tricks at times, so I unload and reload that driver. Nothing. Iwconfig. No interface. Ifconfig. Nothing except lo. Ok, so I have a laptop that does no networking at all and I have no idea what’s wrong. Sure, this is a beta, but first reboot after last updates worked fine.

This time booting with live version on USB. Short search on Google suggests that /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state might have NetworkingEnabled set to false. To my surprse this is exactly the case. Set to true, restart network manager and it’s all working again.

What I don’t understand is how the heck did it get set to false first place?

Oh, and does anybody know where screwdrivers like to hide? I had one around and can’t find it any more. If you’re Kadri then no, it’s not the one I borrowed from you, it’s the other one.

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Kolm Mozilla parandust, mis kohe tuju heaks teevad

414520 – Lõpuks ometi tuleb Sertifitseerimiskeskuse juursertifikaat kohe Firefoxiga kaasa. Ei pea enam lisama id-kaardi kasutamiseks ega muudkui Firefoxile kinnitama, et https-ühendust krüptiv sertifikaat on ok kasutada. Ja selleks on vaja vaid viimast stabiilset versiooni kasutada.

495020 – Ma loen pidevalt Thunderbrdis meile selles kaustade vaates, kus kuvatakse ainult need kaustad, kus lugemata poste on. Ja kui keset postituse lugemist muutub iseenesest aktiivseks teine kaust ja loetav materjal kaob eest ära, siis ei ole väga tore. Tundub, et kuigi püsisin mõnda aega beeta-liini peal, siis nüüd on kiusatus uuesti arendusversiooni kasutama hakata. Pealegi pole ükski senistest arendusversioonidest ühegi suurema prohmakaga toime tulnud. Teatav tagavarakoopia on muidugi abiks riskide maandamisel :).

Ja viimaks 167951, millega Firefox sai omale tekstilahtrid, mida saab oma suva järgi suuremaks venitada, kui arvamus piisava suurusega kastist ei lähe kokku veebimeistri omaga. Ka see uuendus on hetkel arendusversioonis nagu eelminegi.

Kõige lõppu veel kaks prototüübi tasemel katsetust:
* Contacts ehk kontaktid brauseris. Esialgu piiratud teenuste toega ja mitte millegagi integreeruv, aga kujutate ette sama asja enamlevinud teenuste toe ja Thunderbirdi integratsiooniga?
* Account manager – idee sellest vaatevinklist, et erinevatel veebilehtedel sisse-välja logimine on nii tavaline nähtus, et sellega peaks üks korralik veebilehitseja ilma lisadeta sujuvalt toime tulema. Või siis sellest, et su brauser saab aru, et andsid sülearvuti parajasti sõbrale ja tahad korraga kõigil veebilehtedel välja logida.

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Kirjavead ja täpitähed

No ei jäta just kõige paremat muljet, kui firma kodulehel täpitähed puudu on või kirjavead vastu vaatavad. Ja nii peaaegu kõigil lehtedel, kus viimase paari päeva jooksul käinud olen. Vahest ma käin valedel lehtedel või peaks tüüpklient ainult pilte vaatama? :D

Näiteid ka siis:
Nod32 – Litsentsi ilmselt võtaks, aga litsensi jätaks võtmata.
Samsung – Klintidele? Ja mitte klientidele? Ma tõesti ei kujuta ette, milliseid elektroonikakaupu ühel klindil tarvis võiks minna.
Canon – Olin unustanud kui ebamugav on täpitähtedeta teksti lugeda. Ajal, mil pole ühtki head põhjust, miks veebilehele täpitähti panna ei saa.

Tegelikkuses otsustan ilmselt ikka hinna/omaduste alusel, aga kergelt tõrvane on see mesi siiski.