December, 2006 | bitpost.com/news

AccessKey in Firefox 2.0

I haven’t been in a rush to upgrade to Firefox 2.0, mainly because I’m doing fine with 1. Now that extensions are getting updated, I’ve been moving over on some of my machines. Here are the essentials:

I’m a keyboard junkie – moving your hands off the keys is so tedious – so one thing about Firefox 2.0 drives me nuts – the “accesskey” option of the INPUT form tag now apparently requires Shift+Alt instead of just Alt. To change it back to just Alt, you browse to about:config and change the ui.key.generalAccessKey from integer value -1 to 18. Ahh.

Comments | Sunday, December 24, 2006

Duelling Wireless Routers

From the “better than banjos” department… (continued…)

Comments | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 [ hardware * lan ]

Keeping Gentoo Humming

Knocked out my mythtv box with a hasty half-finished emerge, making the whole family disappointed in the loss of movies and TV. Here’s how to stage an upgrade properly. (continued…)

Comments | Sunday, December 17, 2006

Ignorant Vista x64 Installer

Once again, it can only be intentional.

The Vista x64 installer allows you to set up your drive partitions, but it will likely just give you fits. (continued…)