What Browser do you Use?

Hmm I was thinking it is really important now as to what browser you use as some websites still "favour" one particular browser or another browser...
I personally use Firefox, IE 6 (Upgraded from 5), Netscape 7.x, Opera 6..
Why all these different browsers well I want to know what my home site looks like in the various browsers, seeing how it looks in each after i've done small changes to the html/javascript/css code.. Sometimes it work sometimes it don't..
FYI - Opera is the most pain in the ass to get "non simple" stuff to work in..
Personally since Firefox came out I've used it pretty much exclusivly to browse sites, however I've come across one or 2 that differ from how they look in IE / NS and one that didn't work until I installed one or 2 Extensions to FireFox ;) (IMHO Firefox Rocks)..

How easy is it to get firefox: Get it here: http://www.getfirefox.com/
The extensions (checkable via Tools > extension) I have "installed" are:

• Adblock - Does what it says blocks page ads, you need to play around with this as it doesn't come with any rule book, you create the rules as you surf, you can choose to block or not.


• Chatzilla - A nice IRC chat client has it's uses


• Download Manager Tweak - Tweak to the download manager that lets you show what's been downloaded in a sepertate tab / windows - most useful


• Foxy Tunes - Lets you have Firefox and your favourite music player open, with the player minimized out of sight, this gives you control over it (supports a large varity of players


• PDF Download - Only just found this one, useful if you want to save a pdf document rather than view it in your browser..


• BlogThis - Also just got this and not tried it, but it apperent it link stuff back to your blog..


• MediaPlayerConnectivity - autodectects (or you can manually set what it does) where quicktime / real player / media player / you favourite mp3 player is installed and then (once you've select its behaviour) automatically plays / smart play (which I use) /gives you a choice of what link to play / etc..


• Play Launch - Gets past a "bug" of Launch.com which requires you to use IE or Netscape 7 and you neeed to have the latest media player installed as well - not with this plugin ya don't - just need to set it up for your connection speed and how you want it to launch itself and away you go on launch.com

Firefox is nice, can be skinned (unlike IE) - i.e. you can change the look of it just like you can with Netscape and Opera (what is it with MS and not being able to change the look of stuff)
It supports the standard plugins - if you don't got them it tells you and offers you links to get 'em which is sweet - integrated updates which is useful:) - also stable it's been used in Linux for ages - well the Mozilla Browser it's based on has anyway :) - instead of having 10 windows you can have 10 tabs - a definate Plus

Okay I think that about says it all for firefox... I can't recommend it enough, someone one day recommended it to me and I eventually got it to see what all the fuss was about and haven't looked back since - only on a few sites do I still use IE but only because they are in my IE favourites (which you can import into firefox if you wish)

Addendum: Erm I didn't include Safari as I don't have a mac and it appears to be a mac OS only browser...

An Invitation...

Now since this blog is still "relativly" new (even if it does have stuff that goes back to 2003 - from old DD) I've decided to allow my readers (how ever many there maybe to leave a question in comments...
Looks at Moogie and Sharon, I'm blaming you 2 for me doing this as I can't think of anything to write and though what the hey.. if this all goes wrong you 2 are to blame...

Monday, Monday....

Well hmm now lets see what can I say about today but ARGH!!!! Hmm I need to persude the boss that we need shelves for a load of stuff mainly alarm boxes as they are sitting literally all over the place there is like about 200 of them all on the floor of the lab area which is now my workarea / storage + I'm trying to clear a space to put stuff 2 19" rack mount cabinets in.. It's big enough but there is one corner that is full of stuff that I can't move... It just looks a mess... I just not long had it tidy but because I've got cables everywhere (see early entries in my DD) which i am in the process of transfering from the beginning (it seems the sensible way) - copy and pasting it from an exported xml file. Unless of course someone can think of a way I can erm do it quicker, I'll be doing it that way (so expect some randomly added entries over the next few days / weeks)

The Dawn of a new Era...?

Okay.. It's time to expand outwith my Dear Diary, Slowly over the next few days / weeks I'll be "importing" most if not all from my DD site (gotta love cut & paste). I will probably loose the comments unless I can get them across as well (wish me luck)...
I know this is one of default templates and I'll be looking for some help from people to help me play around with the set up of my blog..

Title: TBA

I can't actually think of a title that remotely makes any sense but then again often when I do put one in, it doesnt' always make sense..
What a interesting few days I've had at work, I actually did some work that is, not that I didn't do work before you realise just this is different..
Finally getting around to moving the Call Centre or as I like to refer to it the Central Monitoring Station around, now you can imaging how much cabling is required to monitor 20+ sites on their own monitor, each site has reciever and recording units it goes like Rx > Recorder > Monitor..
So Coax needed from Rx to recorder > monitor and erm we have some in 1 proper 19" Rack, some recorders in another smaller Rack + Recievers and other DVR's stacked up - not very nice... + it's a NIGHTMARE cabling wise...
Well Enter Solution 1 of 1: Move Monitors to other side of room where more sockets have been provided, move all the Rx / Recorders out of the room and rearrange them in the existing cabinet + 1 other 19" rack cabinet (both of which are full - or will be once addition units come on line..
Sound simple enough, okay just need to cut 28 lengths of coax - why 28 well each keypad we use supports 14 Recivers don't ask why they just do... so 2 keypads = 28 , now you can't just leave that laying around nope it's all in trunking on and through the wall.. Also we are adding a spot monitor so we can see what site the keypad is looking at rather than having to turn and find the correct one...
It's all in hand well almost the "spot monitor" requires a bit of hardware that erm although simple in principle, I can't find it anywhere (or maybe I'm being silly and not typing the correct magic words into google)
I just want the bloody thing to go from Site A to Site B by pressing buttons on the existing keypad no fancy stuff no need to record it, or do this that or the next thing to it (all of which adds to overall £££ :|)
Onwards to tomorrow where I can finish off the cabling, only started it on monday but I am getting a hand (just about)...

It's a Funny Old World ain't it...

Knoppix

Well finally got it working after a while, swapped the dvd drive for the cd-rw that burned the cd - i have a feeling that somehow either the CD wasn't closed properly or it was burned too fast (weird burned @ x20- most odd) never mind it works. Now all i need to do is learn where everything is in knoppix and how to start / stop / show processes. Need to update / install java so I can run d2ol and also somehow patch it into the windows drives current d2ol cache so that it picks up where the windows one left off and such like...

What an Interesting Week

Well things is moving along at work...
Actually got some contructive stuff done this week...
My Work Area is almost sorted, just got a few things to resolve like where to find a Dual Monitor PCI Video Card... as the PC don't got no AGP slot it's old but I have to use it lol...
I'm not going to attempt to install linux on a machine for a while I've had erm a "interesting" time of it, Simple install failed - 1st Downloaded CD fails - error in the ISO, redownload a newer version checked the ISO - passed md5 check, and then I hit problems with my Video card... darn it need to find away of getting the drivers in...
I think Im gonna dig out my Rad 7000 and install that and replace the drive that annoyed me because it won't play nice when I attempted to boot Knoppix (which is Debian Linux based but has smart autodetect)

Snow..

I'm not joking ya...
Just as I was leaving work what starts to fall but Snow, nice sunny day as well cold but I didn't think it was that cold, but it must have been.
Hmm also me isn't feeling 100%, darn cold that someone gave me..

Temporary "Something"

I have no earthly idea where my head was on Saturday / Sunday apart from UP ones own ass... Maybe as someone wrote I need to lighten up, maybe I don't know, I truely don't...
I'm like a caged tiger who's cage bars have been removed yet who doesn't leave the "cage"... It's like I don't know I'm missing some part of me or maybe its there but...... I say I'm strong but days like that I'm not, I just want the world to go away just for a while I just want to hide away I think... Is this wrong?
Am I going nuts / mad / insane / ......
Or is this perfectly normal..
I don't know who am I or do I and just don't realise it..

I feel on days like that about as stable as Urinium-235

A Small note to vistors (Edited)

< INSANITY MODE ACTIVE >

This diary is full of some pretty personal stuff so could users please remember to not kinda spread most of this shit around... If I find that this is happening and I start getting shit from people about it I'll make my Diary Private and Private it will stay...

3 Apr 2005 - I'm Sorry but the requested.....
Dear Reader, I'm sorry but erm I've decided to give up on DD period..
I might at some point in the future reserect this DD or maybe I'll move it else where but I'm going to slowly remove entries from this diary month by month maybe doing 2 monthes a day I don't know until it's all gone...
Thank you for reading... Oh and erm In a few days I'll be turning off anon commenting so if your not a registered on DD and you wanna post a comment (sensible ones only - any nasty one's get Vapourised and if it's repeated I'll turn off Commenting period)

Last of the big spenders

Well it's true,
All I bought to day was the latest Kinsey Milhone Dectective Novel and a new pair of shoes, the shoes were a must however as the last pair, well lets just say the left shoe talked to person behind as I walked along... not bad for £20 I think they lasted year at least... not bad ehh.
Well like I said I got a book too, wasn't actually looking for that particular book didn't know it was out, it must have been out a while as it was in paper back not hardback... speaking of that I also pre-ordered the Next Harry Potter Novel :P I know but heck I read sometimes...

What a week again..

Well this week has been interesting to say the least at work..
I'm still doing the bloody "Stock check" it's not that there is a lot to do it's just so mind numbingly repetatatative that erm I sometimes end up literally feeling like I'm going around in circles and getting nothing achieved.
Of course this has to be done around my "normal" job which is monitor the companies alarms in other places + monitor the barrier on site which means I have to move between rooms with boxes so I can count / check / re-check / give the smeg up checking it for the nth time and note it down... I'm *Thud*......
Sorry fell asleep there need caffine... I've got numbers and stock items going around in my head forwards, backwards and sideways too..
Argh! Thankfully I got paid this week so I have some money for erm well 5 minutes..