Into.the.Void.

Hello all, this is my first post with the Opera Browser. It’s the first time I install it and I only did it because yesterday Opera celebrated it’s 10th Birthday and gave away registration keys for free. I would never install a browser that’s adware, and now that I had the chance to legally have the full browser in my hands…I thought I should give it a shot.
My first impressions are quite good. It’s certainly faster than firefox, eats less memory, it’s quite stable with plugins like acrobat and mplayerplug-in…and it has a nice interface. I can also visit some webinterfaces of machines like cisco 340AP that firefox could not. Firefox needed to enter the login/password everytime I went to a different page in the webinterface…but Opera does not have a problem with such things. It also has built in mouse gestures, where in firefox I had to load an extension for this.
I had around 7-8 extensions in firefox that made my life easier. The only thing that I really miss in opera is the BugMeNot extension :(. I haven’t really looked into Opera so I don’t know if it’s possible to load “extensions”…if there is a way…I am sure someone will write a BugMeNot one.
The only problem I faced so far was at my e-banking site. It did not load the menu right…I don’t know if this is an Opera fault or mine. Maybe some javascript setting. I will look into it though.

That’s it for now…I go back to studying…September exams are coming. Good luck to everyone.

Filed by kargig at 12:52 under General,Internet,Linux
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I’ve lately noticed that my fluxbox was a bit slow…when opening up terminals, when opening up firefox, or even when entering the wm.

I did some changes and the problem has been significantly reduced:
1) edit /etc/hosts and make sure there are lines like these:

127.0.0.1 localhost
1.2.3.4 koko.lala koko


2) re-emerge fluxbox with disablexmb flag:
#echo "x11-wm/fluxbox disablexmb" >> /etc/portage/package.use
#emerge -Dv fluxbox


3) check your font paths inside xorg.conf for any incosistencies and symlink loops

4) if you have a system with a lot of ram change vm.swappiness. I use:

vm.swappiness=40


inside my /etc/sysctl.conf

5) I’ve also done this to fine tune my memmory settings, if you feel brave enough..you can do that too:

echo 4096 >> /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes


my system now boots faster and I whichever application I use has a noticeable speed difference.
Have fun with gentoo!

Filed by kargig at 15:37 under Linux
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Today I had my first, and hopefully the last, christian spam.

From : Meet Christian Singles
Reply-To : return@knockoutgamesmail.com
Sent : Thursday, August 18, 2005 6:12 PM
To : xxx@xxx.com
Subject : Christian singles. A match made in heaven.


As promised, your faith and perseverance will pay off. Finding the right match is no different. Sign up now and choose from thousands of possible like-minded singles looking to share their life with you.


YIAKS! I am no christian and I am not a single. I don’t believe in heaven and crap like that.

now, GET OUT OF MY INBOX!

just pathetic…

Filed by kargig at 17:31 under General
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