Archive for September, 2008

Getting rid of Live Bookmarks in Firefox

Published September 15th, 2008 in Techie. 0 Comments

I was playing around with Netstat* the other day (Does that sound geeky to you too? Nah,  I didn’t think so either.), and realized that whenever I opened Firefox I was accessing tons of web sites. I looked them up and discovered that they were all the RSS feeds I had bookmarked in Firefox and used in Sage (simple feed reader).

There was no reason for them to keep loading and getting refreshed so I decided to clean them out, and here is how I did it.

Sage can display live bookmarked feeds an regular bookmarks of feeds, so since I didn’t need all of them to be live I opened up  C:\Documents and Settings\MyUserNames\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profilename.default\bookmarks.html (the parts in Bold Italics will need to be changed to match your installation) in a text editor and replaced all instances of FEEDURL with HREF. Oh, and you will want to copy that file first as a backup.

Firefox seems to load much faster and run a little more smoothly.

*Netstat is a program included on Windows and can be accessed from the command line. It displays all the systems your computer is currently (well, very recently) connected to. If you are worried that some program is contacting undesirable systems, you can verify that here.

Open a “Run” box (either from the start button or by using [Windows Key] + R), type cmd and press enter. Type netstat to run netstat or netstat ? to learn how to use it.

Using Google Chrome

Published September 2nd, 2008 in Arena and Techie. 2 Comments

I am writing this in Google Chrome right now.

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13]

Unfortunately, Chrome has some issues with the wordpress post entry text box, but it is more of an annoyance that a big problem and they are very annoying.

It is fast, but not smooth. It is more stable than Safari on Windows (as far as I can tell), but not great. It does at least work with Arena (which Safari does not).

I brought it down to a lack of responsiveness trying to download 7 podcasts from Bloglines, I dislike the tabs on top of the address bar, the download page cannot be cleaned up (as far as I can tell), New Tab is not letting me open my homepage instead of recently visited pages, and it is lacking important features (I really miss my FF extensions too).

Something interesting, about:memory brings up a lot of memory information. I found this by middle clicking on the top bar, selecting “Task Manager” then “Stats for nerds.”

I may use Chrome for GMail or just another browser option, but it is not ready to replace FF or IE (well, duh).

UPDATE: I won’t be using it for Wordpress posts any time soon. I am editing it in Firefox because Chrome completely goofed the posting.

And, I’m back

Published September 1st, 2008 in News. 0 Comments

So, the site went down for part of Saturday and all of Sunday. now I am trying to figure out if I need to block a particular search indexing robot. Some unidentified robot actually passed up Yahoo!’s Slurp as the biggest bandwidth hog.

I’ll have to see if this is going to be a continuing problem. If so, I will need to allocate more bandwidth to this site.

I am thinking about blaming Cuil. Fortunately, I won’t be missing much traffic if I block them.

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