Monthly Archives: October 2004

Amazon.com + A9 Discount

October 7, 2004 – 1:24 am

So I finally decided to make use of this $50 gift certificate for amazon.com I got, and picked two things to order. The total ended up being $0.42 thanks to a suprise $0.80 discount I got for searching A9.com one time.
Just so nobody questions my integrity, the only reason I placed an order from amazon.com [...]

By FireRabbit | Posted in Computers & Technology, Me, Rants | Comments (2)

Doom 3 for Linux released!

October 6, 2004 – 1:08 am

ID Software released Linux binaries of Doom III today! Read about it here and download it here!

By FireRabbit | Posted in Computers & Technology | Comments (0)

Mozilla/Firefox sudo warning

October 2, 2004 – 1:44 am

Never run a mozilla browser using sudo, there is a bug that will indefinitely delete your bookmarks file (and possibly other files as well).
Hopefully this will be fixed before Firefox 1.0.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205053
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251456

There’s also a new security patch for Firefox, download it here.

By FireRabbit | Posted in Computers & Technology | Comments (0)

Debate & Volcano!

October 1, 2004 – 9:08 pm

In case you missed the debate last night, someone stuck a cupple torrents up on suprnova. I thought that both candidates sounded very confident with what they were saying, and find it hard to believe that either one was able to convince undecided voters (although many people say Kerry came out on top). The only [...]

By FireRabbit | Posted in World News | Comments (0)

GNOME File Assoceations

October 1, 2004 – 1:50 am

I was having a problem with gnome not letting me change the assoceated application for a filetype with the “Open With” tab in nautilus.
I found out from someone in #gnome that GNOME (which is using the very poorly documented Freedesktop.org shared mime spec) stores this information in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. The directory this file is in also [...]

By FireRabbit | Posted in Computers & Technology | Comments (0)