for the longest time i had been struggling with putty telnet/ssh’ing into my DNS-323. every so often i would drop characters and so typing anything in the shell on the NAS was a monumental waste of time. i have finally figured out why this is happening. it turns out that the reason why i’m having problems is because i have putty set to send a keepalive null packet to the NAS. whenever putty does this, it drops whatever characters i’m typing. talk about weird, huh?
Daily Archives: May 22, 2008
things slow down when you bike
nothing eventful usually happens on my commute to work. but when i bike to work, it’s a completely different story. i was driving along and all of a sudden a toolbox comes flying out of this truck. bits and pieces of the toolbox come flying out with some screwdrivers spilling over in the middle of the road.
i got off my bike and ran into the middle of the street to move the toolbox before any other cars would run over it or swerve away to not hit it. the guy in the truck stopped his truck at the side of the road and started to walk towards me to pick up his missing toolbox. we talked a little about how the toolbox has never fallen off his truck before while picking up various tools from the side of the street and then we went our separate ways.
it’s kind of neat how different your commute becomes when it slows down a little when you bike.
the new firefox
i’m sort of a late adopter when it comes to browser technology. this is sort of a shocker because i’m a huge gadget freak and i generally like to keep up with all of the latest and greatest technology. i think the biggest reason why i don’t really play with beta browsers is because the browsing experience is such a critical part of my daily life that i can’t stand using unstable browsers. they should just work and if they don’t, it really upsets me.
the browser is also a big part of my work life. i need a stable browser so that i can work. if it cuts down on my productivity, that means that i have to work longer…and that is simply unacceptable. plus, i’m developing for what most people use, and most people just don’t use beta browsers.
but i have decided to try out the firefox 3 beta 5 and just recently upgraded to the firefox 3 RC1 release and i have to say that i’m mostly impressed with the browser. i did think it was a little weird that on my install the default navigation bar comes without a back/forward set of buttons and i had to customize the bar to add them, but aside from that, so far, i’m pretty impressed.
the browser feels speedy, the new address bar is pretty cool, and it feels pretty stable. i think it’s a little too easy to make bookmarks with this browser, but maybe that’ll be a feature that i like. i’m also glad that the majority of my add-ons still work. the most compelling reason to use firefox is for the add-ons. it’s what makes using other browsers like internet explorer and safari useless to me.