| Closing time. |
[May. 25th, 2012|08:22 am] |
It's the end, I have reached my end with Chrome, I will no longer even be testing it as my browser on my person computer with most o my social tabs. That is how I run it right now on a computer that is to be my main desktop. I don't use this computer as much as the other one, the DVR, but I do brows it just about every day and have a ton of tabs on it. However in working with chrome over the last few years has just been, well work, and I have finally had it.
First I used chrome just as a regular browser. Let me just first say that I am a tab junkie, I know this, no I don't want help and I love it - Embrace the beast! Now with knowing that, when I say regular browser I just opened it, opened my wanted sites one at a time or a few at a time and read them, closed the browser and forgot about it.
As I became more comfortable with chrome I looked at more features and found that it could save you session. So I tried it, opened a few tabs and maybe windows and exited the browser. Came back and so did the tabs, Great! I used this method for a while, then one day chrome crashed. All tabs were lost, I thought, that's okay I can just keep chrome from crashing I'd be fine.
I had made a mistake, how could I keep chrome from crashing? I had zero plugins installed, I didn't browse weird or harmful sites and I had less tabs I had fingers and toes! I didn't think about this, I just kept using it and as you can guess it, it crashed again. However this time in its development plugins weren't a beta option, anyone could use them on the latest version, So I went looking for a lifesaver type plugin I have in FIreFox, a session saver.
I found a session saver! It was/is rudimentary, it will save sessions and it will restore sessions - when you tell it to only, this is booth good and bad. In comparison the session manager plugin I use in Firefox does that as well, but it also auto saves sessions, over time and, or, upon closing the session. It also has backups, local and remote, crash protection as well as other advanced features like the ability to select what to restore or not, concatenization of windows or sessions as well as single window saving.
I didn't feel this was too much as of an issue as most of the tabs I worked with on chrome were static, I didn't open or close the much of the time, all I needed were for them to re-open. As one could expect I started to again feel more comfortable with chrome and used it more. I opened new tabs all the time, sometimes new articles or long ones that I need them to reopen to the exact page, back to the exact point or I may have to reread as I knew what I had read but not really where I stopped. This was fine as I now had a session saver, and while it was terribly painful to find out the only session saved was VERY stale I just kept stupidly dragging on and told myself to just make more backups, I did think to find a more advanced session manager but couldn't find one and chrome started to help by getting better crash protection, all was well, not really but that's what I told myself.
Between backing up more, when I remembered, crash recovery from chrome I was doing fine and hadn't had too many problems. Most were easily over came by one of the two and the only time I'd have an issue was possibly between updates... something that chrome might do every few days.
So frequent sessions saved, crash recovery and I was sitting pretty. My saving strategy first went from sporadic to every month and when I still lost tabs it went to every week. This is STILL not enough! Today, I lost a ton of tabs, maybe a few windows. Since last Saturday night I have been browsing a new site, hitting a load of articles that I want to read, some I did some I could hold off until this weekend or more. However between last night's regular shutdown, today's reload chrome saw fit to just... not save anything. I have two "pinned" tabs, one of them being this site - I'm not going to even go into about how they don't work the way they should but I do know that they reopen every time you reopen chrome. No, they too were gone, the browser open, had my history but noting else. So I go back to my last save, but it's too stale at a week old, not having any of the new stuff I had been working with.
That's it, I'm done! Sure I could just save a session before I close, or I could once again look for a better session manager but that doesn't address the other little issues I have with chrome. To say nothing of the fact that I don't find any benefits from it either. I don't find it super fast, I sure don't find it more stable than anything else, it's built in flash support is buggy in that it conflicts with the system as it use the system version of flash too. It does not warn me of closing a window with multiple tabs so when the mouse slips and clicks close on a maximized window I have to reload it.
Maybe I will see the difference when I load the same session with FireFox but there are no ram and CPU savings either. Sure this could be marked as personal preference and the Base FireFox isn't actually doing much better either but FF's HUGE plugin repository is more than making up for it too.
Using FireFox for me, a tab junkie, is simply just less work, I can style it batter, more to my liking and with session manager I have not lost a tab in over 5 years. I have had issues with session manager, and some recently where tabs were restored but when you clicked on them they went blank, however with its multiple backups it was easy for me to recover from.
I can recover from this, I think, however when I do, I will save a session, open a new tab, install firefox (maybe I will give a third party build a try) and begin duplicating windows to FireFox. |
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| File this under TMI and possibly gross. |
[May. 15th, 2012|11:35 pm] |
So My Nails, all of them, were too long. As I was fresh out the shower and relaxing, drying off and what not. I stubbed my toe, whilist looking for my clippers *rolls eyes*, and I pulled off some of my toe nail.
Seriously I ripped off like 1/3 of my Toenail from my big toe, no, there will be no pictures. I think this happened mostly because I believe this was the same toe that I ripped like 2/3rds off in my sleep one day. I was so tired I went to sleep with my pants around my ankles, shook them off later and one time in the night I lifted up my leg, let it go and felt this pain in my toe but figured, oh well I'll deal with it later. Then thought, "Hmm that feels somewhat wet... yep its wet, must be beading, *SNORE*
So I say bah for get it I'm going to get the other 19 done and come back. When I do there is like so much blood that I had it pressed in a towel and there was still a nice huge bead of blood sitting there. I thought, well I was clean, it was a clean rip no need to do anything... well the towel wasn't super clean.
I pour some peroxide on it and POOF! That was so much bubbles it looked like foam! I mean seriously it was thick! I let it dry and did it three more times but I'm just going to let it go now.
I could say more, I even made up a joke but its Wayyy past my bedtime,
Goodnight. |
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[May. 5th, 2012|11:01 am] |
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Okay universe, I quite, I give up, now be nice. |
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| DId you reboot? Do you still have the issue? |
[Apr. 26th, 2012|04:22 pm] |
I will tell you a secret, as a worker in the IT industry I am amazed at sometimes how far rebooting will go. Sure we tell this to people and honestly it is not a blow off move it can correct some serious and tiny issues and more times than not its what we'd do anyway. If you ask I can try and go into detail about why rebooting fixes things.
Anywho Today was a very trying day, first I find that the wireless access isn't working in a building, we just upgraded the server to 2k8r2 and to be honest I've never done radius and that's why we contracted it out. Since we have had it for a while and had problems I am pretty good at trouble shooting them with IAS, but IAS is not in 2k8, its NAP. I, didn't even know this, I am not going to go into why. So I was mucking around, found out EAP is the issue and tried to recreate EAP and ran into not having a certificate to work with. Then... the VOIP phone system seemed to crash.
Longer story short, after hours of AT&T not getting back to me, well they did but for the circuits which weren't the issue. I had an idea: The T1 circuits are fine, the CSU's are being controlled by the Phone switch... what if the phone switch has gone nutters and is making the CSU's fail, since we have rebooted the CSU's multiple times.
So After they guy says you lines are clean and I walk him about the building I ask my boss, lets reboot this sucker, worse thing can happen is we need a tech visit and right now we already have one. We have tons of backups and everything needed to rebuild it.
So we did, Trouble light goes away! Then comes back, We reboot one CSU... Fine, seems to start that way, I test still no calls, Reboot the other, fine, stays, I make test calls RING RING!
I seriously did not expect it to be that easy. We probably could have just reinitialized the two controller cards but the thing is we don't know that system, its why we pay for support that has yet to show up.
We will have to speak to our rep about this. From what I was told is that because we have to pay for Time and Materiels that we can not be made a priority although our tickets were in as such. As it stood I didn't get a call from the case manager until 3:26 and my first call was 11:17!
So to take a moral from this story, reboot. Don't say you did and you didn't, doesn't matter if you don't think it will help. Please just try it, and you might have to do it more than once. |
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| Sometimes I want to Jump in... |
[Apr. 16th, 2012|03:47 pm] |
However I am not sure if I am really doing the right thing or being a Jerk, but I'm truly concerned sometimes.
I went to the store this weekend and the lady that rang me up; After getting into her line and asking if she was open, I noticed that her hands were somewhat trembling while she was moving my items. I wanted to ask if she was okay but I didn't know if it was a medical condition or perhaps she was not right but hoping no one would notice.
Later the same weekend I went to Burger king (the cashier was cute) and I noticed a lady with very long nails and she was sucking on her thumb, sideways like maybe she was licking something off her thumb. Did I mention she was a worker? So I figure well you know I won't go nuts, maybe after that she will quickly hit some sanitation or maybe wash her hands... Nope. I don't care if she mostly takes wrapped food and shoves it in a bag and works with bottles, cups, and lids, I don't want to touch food products that have been touched after you've had your digits in your mouth! I didn't take pictures, I didn't complain, and I'm pretty sure she was the manager. |
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| Outlook 2010 Account weridness |
[Apr. 12th, 2012|05:03 pm] |
Anyone dealing with office 2010 and outlook should be aware of an issue that can give you headaches and make you look stupid.
We have a BESX server, so we have a user Badmin that has read access to every account, Well we also share public folder contacts by that account so when I went to setup my account I decided to add it to the list so I can manage that public folder (I can't find it by my account, I don't know why) Also I admin I'm not an exchange or Outlook admin of great skill
Anyway in outlook 2010 you can specify other accounts, no big deal. However you can log in, I'm using windows 7, and and when you pull up the second account if the account you are using doesn't have the ability to pull up the account its requesting it will ask for another ID. At that time you can specify save my credentials. Well I thought this would just be used whenever I went for that account. WRONG!
If you save you credentials it will use them every time for ALL accounts! If in this case you use the credentials that have read access to everyone like besadmin, and save it you'll pull up your accounts just fine and not know there is an issue... until you try to send a message then you think that exchange has just told you that YOU can send messages as YOURSELF. Which I guess is possible.
So How do you know this is what you've done? I haven't figured that out yet, but I have found out how to fix it:
Hit file,
Select Account settings
Select account settings
Double click the account you want to send from, note this account is going to be used for access, unless you want to put in a few different accounts every time you open outlook, make sure this account has read access to all other accounts you will pull up.
Hit more settings on the change account box
Select security, Click "Always prompt for logon credentials" under User identification.
Okay, next, finish. Now when back to outlook close it.
Reopen outlook put in the credentials you want to send from and select remember my credentials
Now repeat the above steps accept uncheck always ask, close, restart outlook
If it didn't just log on enter the sender account information again and set it to remember, it will hold this time.
You should be able to send as the account you want but not others, unless that account has the appropriate permissions in exchange.
Why didn't you just use the load other mailbox section of your own account?
Good question!... I did, but something else is weird with the contacts I'm looking for. They are listed with a shared icon under besadmin's account but nothing is in there. Then under "other contacts" is the same group again with the contacts listed. So I have to load the full account to get at the "other contacts" list.
Like everyone else we will soon be ditching BB for Android which starts another headache, we don't want an apps domain, and I still have yet to figure out how to upload an updated contact csv and have it update and not create duplicates, not to mention deleting a contact from gmail doesn't delete it from the phone.
Ummm... hey buddy did you know that you can just use active sync to do that? If your contacts are in AD just add the needed info and cachow! Very true, however try using voice dial to call a corp. contact (actually I haven't tried since voice search updated a few days ago) It simply ignores them, well can't access them. |
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[Mar. 5th, 2012|09:57 pm] |
WTH!
I just saw a commercial.... from Microsoft, here is an outline of what ticked me off.
1. Wub wub, wasn't full dubstep but a crossover?
2. It wasn't for the Zune or Zune marketplace
3. It aired on A&E during intervention?
4. It was for IE9
5. It was for IE9
6. IT WAS FOR IE9!!!! WHAT THE HECK!!!
1. I don't like dubstep and everyone that knows me should know it. It also bugs me that its getting so much attention.
2. *sigh* I can go on and on about this for a while but basically this is a great service and store they have but they don't promote it at all. The latest news is that there are news reports that they are making perhaps a new service or even more so drastically change it.
3. People on the inside would know more than I but I wouldn't think that Intervention or A&E would be where you'd find the most technical people or people likely to go for the pitch.
4. IE9? Are you serious, it's got the Largest market share of all browsers, we aren't talking installs we are talking use. Yeah if you are talking about versions of IE then IE9 probably isn't that far up there but hey the family has the record.
5. IE9 Seriously? The ONLY people that can runt this Windows 7 users, not even vista (I believe, don't think they changed that) So... that is a captive audience, why are you advertising for this?
6. IE9 ARE YOU SERIOUS!! its... its... IT'S FREE GOSH DARN IT! You just spend advertising dollars for something no one has to pay for! It's considered an update for windows 7 and... YOU DON'T PAY FOR IT! There will be some flaw, some feature or some other reason that will require people to use it so... why did you do this?
Boggles the mind. |
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[Feb. 29th, 2012|09:40 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Madness (Nitrous oxide remix) | ] |
I had a whole way to poetically state this but forget it, I have.
I wonder when i die will I found out that I have been just, that I have done things that have made a difference or have I just been the sucker all my life. I don't mean will I get into heaven or not. I don't, really, have a worry about that. I mean have I actually made a difference, have i made things better or have I knocked off some of the crap that is so abundant in this world. OR. did I just bring suffering upon myself and prolong the strife of others.
I'm so tired of fighting, I tired of making things work and fixing everything. I know there are people way worse than I, however I am just tired, exhausted and upset.
I saw a deceased Kitten in the street today, she was the same kind as Sara, same colors and everything. She (rather it) was about 1 year or 8 months younger that Sara. It made me extremely sad. |
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