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Watching the Clock
May. 8th, 2008 02:51 pmWow, all this potential work that might make me busy one day, and customers who want tight time frames, but still nothing of that I can actually do. I guess I'll have to blog and read more abut PHP.
I've been trying to install Flock on Ubuntu Hardy. It's slightly harder than one might expect because the Hardy distro comes with Firefox 3 Beta 5, and Flock is only compatible with Firefox 2. Tried first with the binary from Flock itself, installing the necessary 32-bit libs. Ran but wouldn't find sites. Found a 64-bit version on getDeb, it also ran but wouldn't find sites.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ferrouswheel suggested trying a raw IP URL, and lo and behold it worked. So it was merely that Flock couldn't resolve domain names. But why? Firefox was having no problem, and all the command line tools worked fine. In the end, after a few googles and some guesses based on DNS problems other people had had with Ubuntu, I traced it down to the about:config setting in Flock network.dns.disableIPv6 that was set to false, enabling IPv6 DNS. Disabling IPV6 made it work fine. Now to try and get Google Browser Sync working properly to download all my links etc, and I should be ok, though if that fails I should be able to import them from del.icio.us
I've been trying to install Flock on Ubuntu Hardy. It's slightly harder than one might expect because the Hardy distro comes with Firefox 3 Beta 5, and Flock is only compatible with Firefox 2. Tried first with the binary from Flock itself, installing the necessary 32-bit libs. Ran but wouldn't find sites. Found a 64-bit version on getDeb, it also ran but wouldn't find sites.
ferrouswheel suggested trying a raw IP URL, and lo and behold it worked. So it was merely that Flock couldn't resolve domain names. But why? Firefox was having no problem, and all the command line tools worked fine. In the end, after a few googles and some guesses based on DNS problems other people had had with Ubuntu, I traced it down to the about:config setting in Flock network.dns.disableIPv6 that was set to false, enabling IPv6 DNS. Disabling IPV6 made it work fine. Now to try and get Google Browser Sync working properly to download all my links etc, and I should be ok, though if that fails I should be able to import them from del.icio.us- 50 (really basic) Ways To Reduce Consumption.
Many of us over here in NZ, and probably elsewhere, are doing most of these already. For instance I never bath, except on the odd occasion when a lover and I want a special experience, and my shower's are already pretty damn short due to how little time I leave myself between getting up and needing to be on the train, but I bet there will be something in there for most people to improve on. I'm a little leary at the accuracy of the savings statistics blithely quoted, but the ideas still make sense. - 5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed
Just to prove (in case there was any doubt) that humour can be used to educate, this is article from Cracked.com rounds up all those annoying little experiments most of you have already heard about. Though I hadn't heard about the Sheridan & King puppy extension to the Milgram experiment. I think the final phrase of the article sums it all up very nicely :Think about that when you're walking around the mall : Eight out of ten of those people you see would torture the shit out of a puppy if a dude in a lab coat asked them to.
