http://b.oooom.net/shrink.php?api=1&url=

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.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
 
@-moz-document domain("news.bbc.co.uk") {
 
#blq-displayoptions, #blq-accessibility-help, #blq-mast { 
  display: none !important;
}
 
.newsbanner {
  display: none !important;
}
}

The first block (#blq-displayoptions et al) is for the grey banner; the second block is for the red BBC News one.

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 :)

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:

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 :(

[+     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!))]

It’s over here

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;
	}
 
}

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!

I’m not sure if an error is a feature I do or don’t want, to be honest.