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browse happy!

Posted on April 12th, 2005 by john.
Categories: FOSS, internet.

See that link at my links list.. browse happy!
Visit browsehappy.com to see the testimony of many people who switch to other browsers other than IE, and why they did it.

I’m not anti IE or M$, but if there are better browsers, why use the inferior one?
for me, IE is inferior in the case of standardization issues. IE has many flaws in keeping itself up-to-date following the trends and new features in web technology.
This Eric Meyer’s website should show it to us. Try loading the website and parts of it using IE and compare the result with other browsers (e.g. Firefox). IE is like a stupid red-nosed fat stinky and ugly clown ) , while firefox would shine like barney (the barney series, my son loves this character). I like the quote on WordPress‘ site, “Code is poetry, (use) valid (X)HTML(eXtendible HyperText Markup Language), and valid CSS(Cascading Style Sheet)”.

And I haven’t mention anything about security yet..

Anyways, browse happy, don’t use IE for everyday browsing, use them _only_ for updating your Windows, if you have one that is..

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ntfs-linux

Posted on February 21st, 2005 by john.
Categories: FOSS.

It all started with the unability (by default) of Fedora Core 3 to read ntfs partition. I wanted to watch some movies that lies peacefully in my ntfs partition.. So, I installed the kernel-ntfs module for my kernel. Add a few lines on /etc/fstab, and there it was, a nice mount point called /mnt/winxp and others..
sample of the added line in /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1 /media/c_drive ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0

got it from a resourceful website. Actually, I got mine from another website, but the website above is better

Then, there was this unability of reading MP3 files. I downloaded xmms from xmms’ website, installed it along with a package of xmms-skin.. At first, it still won’t read my ntfs partition’s mp3, but that’s not xmms’ problem, it turn out that i haven’t put some beautiful lines of options in my /etc/fstab.. after putting the options, the reading was great.

The last part was watching movies.. I installed xine, which I also download from xine’s website. Make a hard link for /dev/cdrom with the command:

# ln /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

in which /dev/hdc was my cdrom’s device name
then, make a link at the “Quick Launch” bar, for xine, but alter the command to be ‘sudo xine’, so it can read through filesystems more easily.
But in order to do ‘sudo xine’, it turned out that I have to be a valid ‘sudoer’ first.. so I add a line in /etc/sudoers that said ‘my username’ can do all things using sudo …
then, it was great. This configuring things makes me realize that linux isn’t that difficult, I was just not used to it as it is in my M$WinXP..

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ubuntu linux

Posted on February 12th, 2005 by john.
Categories: FOSS.

ubuntu linux..
good linux for good reason..

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