bugs

NativePE XP bootable is a great promise, but doesn't work!

 Basically this was supposed to create me a bootable CD with all the recovery apps handy. Also I wanted to see my hard drives. I wish it went smoothly for me, but nope... nothing works. The project is a great promise, but still very undercooked http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1662 read more »

Firefox slow to open a new tab

Ok , this is some new behavior i'm experienceing with FF 2.0. When I double-click in a tab bar to open a new tab it take up to 8 seconds to open it. Sometimes it goes away after restarting the FF ... sometimes it doesn't. Looking in task manager all I see is that FF consumes huge amounts of memory (up to 200 MB working set). I'm at a loss here!

Firefox toolbar tooltips missing

 I am spending lots of time tweaking FireFox recently, so I figured I will gripe about the things that annoy my the most. I noticed several weeks ago that yellow mouse tooltips stopped showing. It manifested in ForecastFox, Google Calendar weather icons and Google Calendar Notifier extensions.  Searching the web did not help, because I was getting tons of irrelevant info about FF displaying TITLE , but not ALT in tooltips. Eventually  read more »

Programmers curse!

Boy, do I hate software glitches! But not as much as those annoying mistakes introduced on purpose by some narrow-minded a…holes! There are numerous occasions when developers implement some features “in good faith”, which make absolutely no sense to users, are tremendously confusing and even incorrect from the every user’s standpoint! Here is another little example which I would laugh at another day, but combined with a sh.t load I went through it just totally pissed me off:  lists or data rows are numbered starting with 0 (Zero!).  read more »

Mac web browsing experience

I ocassionally have to use a Mac in my university's sports complex....gosh, what a drag. When I type in address line it shows about one char a second. Two browsing experiences so far: (1) Opened Safari, did some google local search (maps), the addresses in the left panel are invisible. Switched to Mozilla, works ok. (2) Opened Mozilla, went to blogmad.net.... crashes. Never even thought about such problems on XP.