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The Firefox Switch Back

January 5th, 2012 No Comments

Early in 2011 I switched from Firefox to Google Chrome. Just before the end of 2011 I switched back. I switched back because I had ignored Firefox for so long, I was almost damned sure that they should have fixed a few issues I had in the 3.1-3.6 releases. And sure enough, they have. In [...]

Posted in random poop | Tags: browsers, chrome, firefox, Google, mozilla

I Dislike Like Gates So Much…

October 6th, 2011 No Comments

I dislike a “like gate” so much, I’ve conditioned myself to do battle against them. Here’s what I do: Like the page. Go to my profile, remove the announcement that “Darryl Likes [insert like-gate here]“ Do what I need to on the page. Unlike the page. What is a “Like-Gate”? A like-gate is effectively a [...]

Posted in random poop, socially inept | Tags: facebook, like-gate, likegate, metrics, rant, social

Facebook Timeline isn’t “New” #f8

September 22nd, 2011 No Comments

This timeline feature isn’t the first timeline that Facebook will have attempted to use. Once upon a time, at least 4 years ago, when you joined Facebook and added friends it always asked “How do you know this person?” and “When did you meet?” Those questions as well as many other little things within Facebook [...]

Posted in random poop, socially inept | Tags: backtrack, dev, f8, facebook, fb, history, rant, timeline

You Want Us To Be Secure…

August 4th, 2011 No Comments

But you make it so complicated. From a technical standpoint, I understand how simple it is to create certificates for SSL/TLS and put them into configs and use ‘em. From a user standpoint, I can not understand the who/what/when/where/why as to the whole security industry and being so damn complicated. So many SSL providers out [...]

Posted in linux, random poop, security | Tags: annoying, blog, rant, security, ssl, whatever

Random Late Night Meta Post

July 13th, 2011 No Comments

Recently it seems that every time I post here it’s because I started a new job or there was a new release of Ubuntu. I decided to not post one at the beginning of June because it would be exactly the same as my previous post with the exception of a slightly different second paragraph [...]

Posted in random poop | Tags: blog, update, useless