Reign Drops Fall... » Computers http://www.reigndropsfall.net Ramblings from a hacker in Iowa Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:02:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 It’s for the little foxes http://www.reigndropsfall.net/2007/03/27/its-for-the-little-foxes/ http://www.reigndropsfall.net/2007/03/27/its-for-the-little-foxes/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:03:05 +0000 Bryan Forbes http://www.reigndropsfall.net/2007/03/27/its-for-the-little-foxes/ Brought to you by the Mozilla Developer Center:

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  • IRC: this I can see why since they probably want their employees to focus on work
  • SSH: port 22 seems to be blocked which means I can’t port forward around the IRC block.
  • Update my time using NTP: it seems they block the incoming ntp packets… no clue why they do that…

Other than those anomalies, I’m thoroughly enjoying the conference!

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]]> http://www.reigndropsfall.net/2005/04/21/untruths/feed/ 2 The wait will kill me http://www.reigndropsfall.net/2005/04/21/the-wait-will-kill-me/ http://www.reigndropsfall.net/2005/04/21/the-wait-will-kill-me/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:56:46 +0000 Bryan Forbes I just ordered a new iBook battery from the Apple Store (since after running a script in OSX that someone told me about, I found out my battery is at around 39% capacity) and I have to wait 2-3 weeks for it to ship. That’s nuts. I also ordered Radtech’s Pawz to replace my iBook’s non-existent feet. This should help with the heat of my iBook a lot. I had to refrain from buying any other cool toys for now… at least until our tax returns come in ;) .

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I’d like to point out one entry that Jakub liked that I don’t think met the criteria. This entry doesn’t conform to the “No English text” rule. I know, it’s sign language; but the sign language used is American Sign Language. This is a specific language to the American deaf community and is NOT universal. There are many different sign languages around the world with their own alphabet. Some, like British Sign Language are very different from American Sign Language’s alphabet. I know it’s a nitpick, but if we’re going to say that the splash can’t have English text because we don’t want to translate the splash for users that speak another language, then we can’t have a language other than English (ASL) on our splash because we’d have to translate that as well.

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