My favorite Firefox Add-ons

This is about the Firefox Add-ons I use. This really is a complete list, I like to keep my browser lean. I’m fully aware that most people will miss things like Adblock, Pixel perfect and greasemonkey, but I don’t use them. (more…)

Accents in xorg

Most of the time I’m a very happy vim user. Vim has superb support for inputting all kind of characters, see :help digraph and :digraphs. But from time to time I need to input accents etc. in other GUI apps. (more…)

PPC Mac partition oddity

I have an old Powerbook and wanted to mount a USB drive I formatted with it on a Linux box. The Linux computer had a custom kernel with mac partition support (CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION). Oddly, the kernel didn’t recognize the partitions on the drive. (more…)

Switching to Openbox

After a decade of windowmaker and fluxbox I’ve switched to openbox. I was motivated by the fact that some recent fluxbox upgrade left my decor-less urxvtcs visible on all desktops which was rather annoying. Somebody on irc suggested openbox, and after a few minutes I started to like it a lot! (more…)

Git clone, ssh: Could not resolve hostname

Now this was annoying. I tried a git clone ssh://user@my.host:/path/to/repository and it failed with

Initialized empty Git repository in /current/path/repository/.git/
ssh: Could not resolve hostname my.host:: Name or service not known
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

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About the nonsense of blocking and annoying IE6 users

I know why most people who do web design, JS coding etc. loathe Internet Explorer 6. I hate having to fix stuff for any IE at all, the web would be a better place if that piece of software just died. I welcome efforts to decrease the market share of IE6, I support nagging warnings for IE6 visitors. But what’s with these nonsensical ideas of making websites look worse in it or blocking it? (more…)