Geek Thread

[Brettski]

For any of you database guru's out there...this is gonna get interesting

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/08/11/7516.aspx

 

[bvibert]

I'm bumping this thread because I've been spending way too much time screwing around with FF extensions lately. I spent a while this morning playing with one called Stylish, it allows you to over-write a site's styles with your own. I don't see what practical purpose this has, but it was fun screwing around with it for a bit.

An AZ twist...

 

[Paul]

I'm bumping this thread because I've been spending way too much time screwing around with FF extensions lately. I spent a while this morning playing with one called Stylish, it allows you to over-write a site's styles with your own. I don't see what practical purpose this has, but it was fun screwing around with it for a bit.

An AZ twist...

Actually, that is really cool. I use the Redshift theme in FF, and it would be nifty to make the whole window match. It appeals to my OCD.

 

[bvibert]

Actually, that is really cool. I use the Redshift theme in FF, and it would be nifty to make the whole window match. It appeals to my OCD.

I tried Redshift V2, but it was a little too dark and cluttered looking for me. I settled on Blue Ice because it was clean and simple. Redshift is what got me going on the darker colors right now though, including switching to a modified Zune theme for Windows XP after using the classic Windows theme forever. I can't stand the default XP theme. uke:

It was a bit of work getting AZ to look like it does in the picture, and there's still a bit more to do to satisfy my OCD. I found using the Web Developer extension helped because it allowed me to easily see the IDs and classes of the divisions and whatnot. The two problems that I ran into that kinda dissuaded from going further was that the blue icons don't really go with the dark theme and they have a white halo around them. The other thing that irritated me was that I couldn't seem to change the text ads in the posts to match the new colors.

 

[BeanoNYC]

Decent proxy for those of you who are firewalled. Caught one of my students on facebook using this one today.


http://www.teheyes.com/proxy/

 

[dmc]

i just installed our product onto a Teradata database for a customer...
We we're getting well over a million encryptions a second on a 850,000,000 row table...

So cool...

 

[BeanoNYC]

Safari just came out for windows. If someone gives it a try please let me know how it runs.

...on another note, I just partitioned my Playstation 3's hard-drive (60 gig) and will be installing a linux distribution in a few days. I'll post as soon as I can with the results.

 

[andyzee]

i just installed our product onto a Teradata database for a customer...
We we're getting well over a million encryptions a second on a 850,000,000 row table...

So cool...

We've had Teradata installed for the last 2 years, maybe I'll see you at my place one day. :lol:

 

[bvibert]

Safari just came out for windows. If someone gives it a try please let me know how it runs.

My initial reaction is that it is faster than FF to load pages, I only played with it for a few minutes on a few different sites though. It doesn't seem to be nearly as customizable as FF though, which is why I use FF over Safari on my Wife's Mac as well.

 

[dmc]

We've had Teradata installed for the last 2 years, maybe I'll see you at my place one day. :lol:

When your ready... We're ready..

Headed down to Arkanasas next week to work with a rather larger company...

 

[andyzee]

When your ready... We're ready..

Headed down to Arkanasas next week to work with a rather larger company...

Oh, that lil ole store?

 

[ctenidae]

When your ready... We're ready..

Headed down to Arkanasas next week to work with a rather larger company...

I'm going to guess you'll be in lovely Bentonville. Being from Arkansas and all, I have a sense for these things...

 

[dmc]

Oh, that lil ole store?

A little retailer... Nothing big...

Psyched!!!

 

[JimG.]

A little retailer... Nothing big...

Psyched!!!

Wear your Kevlar vest and a helmet...the Walton gang likes to beat the hell out of vendors.

I know, we sell to them and they are very high maintenance.

 

[dmc]

Wear your Kevlar vest and a helmet...the Walton gang likes to beat the hell out of vendors.

I know, we sell to them and they are very high maintenance.

We're actually going through another vendor. if it is indeed the company your talking about.. which i can neither confrirm or deny.

 

[JimG.]

We're actually going through another vendor. if it is indeed the company your talking about.. which i can neither confrirm or deny.

Very good...but remember that sh*t always rolls downhill.

 

[dmc]

Very good...but remember that sh*t always rolls downhill.

I'm covered with it right now...

this will be HUGE for my company... Psyched...

 

[JimG.]

I'm covered with it right now...

this will be HUGE for my company... Psyched...

That's a good sales attitude...revel in the dirt!

 

[dmc]

That's a good sales attitude...revel in the dirt!

i get a chunk of each deal...

 

[MRGisevil]

Let's use this thread to share all those little geeky programs, utilities, Web sites, Firefox extensions, system add-ons, etc. that you find useful. One neat little utility I use is ePrompter:

http://www.eprompter.com/

I've got a number of Email addresses and this nifty little tool checks them all for me automatically in the background. If any account has new mail, a little color coded icon with the number of new Emails is displayed in the system tray. I don't use it to send mail, but it's a nice little tool for monitoring Email.

Greg- You rock, man. For whatever reason, I have 8 email address. This thing makes it so much freeking easier to monitor them all!