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BBC News Stylish script
The new BBC News layout seems to be causing some people to stress out a bit – but then all new redesigns do until they get used to them. I quite like it, but for a friend I knocked this up quickly to get rid of the two banners across the top of the page.
You’ll need Stylish and then stick this in a userscript for it. You may need to adjust the domain (2nd line) if you don’t use news.bbc.co.uk to access the site.
irssi and ZNC
ZNC is an IRC bouncer with some pretty nice features. For a number of reasons I wanted to move my ircing from home to a shell, so I decided to give ZNC a try. ZNC isn’t in ports, but compiles fine using gmake.
The only problem I encountered was getting it set up to work with multiple networks in irssi. Configuring ZNC itself to put me on many networks was easy enough, and when I connected irssi to it for each network using /connect it worked fine. Using /server add to set up irssi’s server list didn’t work out so well.
Every time I tried to add another server (for connecting to another network), irssi would remove the first one. This is because irssi only considers a server’s hostname and port when trying to work out if it’s unique. When I added another server which differed from the first only by password and associated network, irssi assumed I was updating the existing one and changed it. Putting the required entries in irssi’s config by hand also didn’t work.
The solution was easy enough; one ZNC instance can listen on multiple ports, so I got it to listen on a selection of ports using multiple Listen directives in its config file, and then added each network’s server to irssi using a different port number.
Now I can take advantage of cool things like buffer replay and detaching from channels. Sorry, irssi-proxy – you don’t quite cut it now :)
Thunderbird’s RSS reader
Having previous tried getting Thunderbird to behave as an RSS reader on FreeBSD and failed (the option didn’t show up on the Add Account wizard), Roz asked me today about getting it going.
A quick Google search this time lead me to this post which gives the answer:
cp /usr/local/lib/thunderbird/defaults/isp/rss.rdf /usr/local/lib/thunderbird/isp/rss.rdf
and suddenly it works! :hellyeah:
Testing posting from Vimpress
Is this thing on?
It looks like I can post from vim, but there’s something in one of my posts that makes Python’s xmlrpc library burst into tears and I can’t view a list of my posts :(
When opers are bored
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[+ JamesOff] HI I'M BARRY SCOTT
[+ alz] JamesOff (james@im.barry.scott)
[+ JamesOff] \o/
BARRYS joins [HI@IM.BARRY.SCOTT]
limescale joins [ground@in.dirt]
* limescale pokes BARRYS
limescale quits IRC [ground@in.dirt] [Killed (BARRYS (BANG! And the dirt is gone!))]
windowtidy for irssi
Finally got around to writing a script for irssi which closes all empty windows.
Reformatting SomethingAwful forums
I’ve just found the Stylish extension for Firefox, which is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript, or something. It lets you define CSS snippets for pages. Admitted what can be done with this can be done by hacking up your userContent.css file but this makes it so much easier.
Go see userstyles.org for an index of snippets you can download. Meanwhile, I present my own one for the SomethingAwful forums. It does the following:
- Highlights the thread row under the mouse on a forum page
- Moves the “somenick fucked around with this page” text off to the right and makes it less intrusive
- Moves the paginator from the bottom of the page to be hovering bottom right at all times; semi-transparent mostly but opaque when moused over. This works on both forum views and reading a thread.
- Hides the post buttons (edit/quote/report) except for the post your mouse is over.
BEHOLD!
To install, create a new blank style in Stylish and dump this into it:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @-moz-document domain("forums.somethingawful.com") { tr.thread:hover td { background-color: #fff7df !important; } .postbody .mainbodytextsmall { text-align: right !important; color: #555; } div[class="pages bottom"] { position: fixed; top: auto; left: auto; right: 5px; bottom: 0; background-color: #fff7df; border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px; font-size: 12px; -moz-opacity: .50; } div[class="pages bottom"]:hover { -moz-opacity: 1; } table[class~="post"] .postbuttons { -moz-opacity: 0.2; } table[class~="post"]:hover .postbuttons { -moz-opacity: 1; } }
Assimilation complete
I knew this was coming, but seeing it happen makes me a sad panda.
http://www.sysinternals.com now redirects to a Microsoft :xbox: TechNet site. While the new site carries all of the stuff sysinternals.com had, and also has some new stuff (hooray!) it’s sad to see it finally gone :(
Luckily, nothing ever really dies on the Internet!
APC features
While rummaging around the APC site to find information on Uninterruptible Power Supplies, I noted that one of the features was “ERROR: No Translation Found”:
I’m not sure if an error is a feature I do or don’t want, to be honest.