1992casey

I'm tempted to scoff. I spent most of the first part of December in Milwaukee, so I've been in the snow more than out of it. Regarding being plowed in, in town anyway, I finally learned that if you take the snow blower right out into the street and clear about 30 feet x 5 feet in the direction the snow plow comes from, the pile at the end of the driveway is minimized. Doing that is a lot less work than dealing with the pile. Here in rural nowhere, I wait for my neighbor to clear me out with his ATV. That works almost all the time. There were a couple times last year that I had to call a plow, though. How are the temperatures? It was 20 below here this morning.

Can anyone tell me how to set firefox so it goes back to the place I was looking at when I go "back" to a site (rather than back to the top)? It's a Yuku bug that's been going on for over six months. It affects all Mozilla-based browsers, including Firefox, Flock, Camino, SeaMonkey, K-Meleon, etc. I'm not pleased with the situation either.

Please note the quote guidelines, gang. It only takes a few seconds to either pare back a quote or to add a few clarifying words to a message to bypass the need to quote. Gracias.

Just like you can get pre-made styles at userstyles.org, you can get pre-made scripts at userscripts.org. The sites are run by different people. If you prefer to run just one extension, styles at userstyles can also optionally be installed into Greasemonkey instead of Stylish. I see I have six scripts installed, but I'm betting on all of them being obsolete. There's one that removes trolls from mlb.com message boards that I know is cashed. Last April, I got an e-mail pointing me to a message over there saying the script died with the last site resign. Of course, if you're adept at javascript, you can write your own Greasemonkey scripts. I occasionally see major annoyances on web pages that could be fixed with Greasemonkey--if I knew how to do a bit of javascript. You could rearrange code from top to bottom and add stuff that isn't there to begin with if that's what you'd like to do. On another note, I looked into these two thingers on my tab bar: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a244/casey1992/boardpics/bfnet/tabbarbuttons.png. The dropdown thing comes standard with Firefox. The close button comes with Undo Closed Tabs Button, and I can't figure out any reasonable way to remove it. I'm considering disabling that extension--I see it also disables "Recently Closed Tabs" in the History menu. But I still like the parts I use. I think the author of that extension might be easy to contact, so I'll try tracking him down first to see what he has to say. hawing, you're not a dork in this instance. The dorks have extensions installed. They also have seven or eight web browsers installed on their systems. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

...so when I'm on the couch (like now) it isn't a heavy and hot brick. While you're not going to take it with you, a "breakfast in bed" tray (Target, $15) is an excellent place for a notebook computer. You can use it in the recliner, on the couch, on the floor, etc.--not to mention, in bed.

I want to sync three computers. I see that besides the backups in the Firefox profiles, Foxmarks also provides backups on its site just in case. My concern is the password thing. I like to avoid storing passwords within my browser, and I can't tell how dependent Foxmarks is on that feature. It can't hurt to try it out, though. I'll just do a manual backup of my bookmarks before I start, just in case.

Well, he does have brewersfandemonium.yuku.com sitting on top of that. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif I see adamb100 is using Foxmarks. I'm interested in possibly using that. I don't see a downside. Does anyone know if there are any?

It's in the Display section of System Preferences. Choose the Display tab after opening that panel. How to Adjust Screen Brightness on a MacBook Keep in mind that a brighter setting will use more battery power. Also keep in mind that the display brightness automatically adjusts to room light. You and uncheck this preference if you'd like. Also note that in the Energy Saver panel, under the Power Adapter tab, there's a setting to "automatically reduce screen brightness before sleep." You may turn that on or off. Default is on.

We're going to get some snow today and tonight up in north central Wisconsin. Right now, the piles from the plow are lower than knee-high.

Screen size is something that's important, but how it's important is different for everybody. Unfortunately, you have to compromise portability to get larger screen, and you have to compromise real estate to improve portability. Notebooks generally offer the option of using full sized monitor at home, though. Some will also provide the option of allowing users to display different items on each monitor. Hooking up a full-sized monitor at home is a way to get the best of both worlds.

strawboss, methinks we should give the Hipster label to adamb100 and his multi-colored theme. Here's my Firefox Toolbar: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a244/casey1992/boardpics/bfnet/fftb.png I've combined the stop and reload buttons like Safari does. That's done with some code in Stylish. The button to the right of reload opens a new tab. The one with the clock opens the traditional history layout in the sidebar. I'm not particularly button-oriented, but that button appears to be the only way to call up history the "old fashioned" way. The magnifying glass comes from InspectorWidget. It helps identify CSS in web pages and within Firefox's chrome. I could put it away because I rarely use it. I'm not sure which extension is causing the these two gizmos to appear at the right end of the tab bar: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a244/casey1992/boardpics/bfnet/tabbarbuttons.png. One of these days, I'd like to make the close button go away. The button to its left lists all open tabs. If I would remember that it's there, I'd use it when I have a lot of tabs open. The Firefox and Windows menus are required by OS X. The Application menu (Firefox) groups things that were scattered all over the place before OS X. The Windows menu lets one navigate between open windows in an application, and optionally offers other window-related stuff on a per-program basis. I rarely open multiple Firefox windows, but I opened a couple for the sake of the screen capture below. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a244/casey1992/boardpics/bfnet/ffm.png http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a244/casey1992/boardpics/bfnet/ffwm.png Adam, I see you have Greasemonkey. What kind of stuff do you do with it?

So you'll never be able to actually use 4 GB of RAM, so this includes Vista, XP, Linux, Mac, whatever. I'm not sure how it works, but you can buy 32 GB of RAM with a new Mac Pro. Would that be because those computers have two 4-core processors? When Apple releases Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) in 2009, RAM limits will theoretically be in the terabytes.

Zotero looks like one heck of a research tool, and it looks like something that could be very handy for some of the junkies on this board. I used three extensions just now to look at their site. I selected the text in strawboss' post and used Context Search to get to its Firefox Addons page. On the add-ons page, I selected the non-clickable link to Zotero's home page and right-clicked via text/plain to get there. Then, when I was annoyed that the text on the home page ran right into the edge of the window, I used Stylish in preview mode to quickly slap a 7 pixel margin around its content.

32-bit Vista only recognizes a little over 3 of the 4 GB. 64-bit Vista will see the whole enchilada. Thanks for jogging my memory. Maybe you can jog it again. What's the downside of 64-bit Vista? Would there be a reason to favor 32-bit?

Declining arby doesn't affect much rules-wise. It used to be that players who declined wouldn't be able to re-sign with their previous team after the first week in January. The current CBA has tossed that out.

I was looking at Windows laptops in some of the stores recently, and very few of them had under 3 GB of RAM. With the Vista slowness that occurred when it first came out, my impression would be that larger RAM amounts would be a response to that slowness. I can't be certain about this, but I've also read that if a computer has 4 MB of RAM, Vista is unable to address all of it. It'd be using more like 3 point something. All this tells me that 3 GB would be an appropriate amount to have unless the extra 1 GB doesn't seem to add to the cost. As far as toys, I'd make sure you have a trackpad that scrolls. It's surprising how many don't.

I'm curious to see how people have their Firefox browsers set up, and specifically, I'm curious to see what extensions are being used. Here are mine... On the Mac mini: And on the MacBook Pro: Commenting on a few of them... Infolister generated the two lists above. It's handy for bug reporting, when you need to recreate your Firefox profile, or for sharing your list with others. It'll output as plain text, HTML, BBCode, XPI list, XML, XML + XSLT, or via a custom template. I usually choose plain text. Context Search lets you select some text, right click, and search for it using any of your installed search engines. It was super-helpful for finding the links in this list. I selected the extension name, right-clicked, and searched Firefox Add-ons at addons.mozilla.org. CookieCuller lets you protect specific cookies from deletion. Note that you must toss your cookies via CookieCuller rather than through the regular Firefox interface; the regular interface will still delete all cookies. By the way, the cookie to protect to remain logged into Yuku is "yuku.com ... PHPSESSID." Extended Copy Menu lets one copy text as either HTML or plain text. When you're using Firefox and Yuku, the default is to copy and paste HTML. Doing that occasionally makes a mess in posts, so it's nice to have the plain text option. Nuke Anything Enhanced lets you right-click to temporarily remove an annoying item, such as a blinky ad, from a web page. It'll appear again the next time you load the page. If you'd like to remove an item permanently, you can use the Remove It Permanently (occasionally known as R.I.P) extension. Send Tab URLs will place the URLs of your open tabs into your clipboard or send them directly to your default e-mailer or g-mail. Along with the URLs, the page title is included. Stylish is one of my favorites. If you frequently visit a web page that doesn't look quite right to you, you can write your own CSS to change it. (Sometimes, it's ridiculously easy; other times, it's ridiculously complicated.) For those who don't know CSS, we do have members here who can write the code for you. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Also, there are oodles of styles available for direct download at userstyles.org. (Styles at userstyles.org are also available as scripts that can be loaded into Greasemonkey or Opera.) The one change I've made for myself on Brewerfan and LambeauLeap is to include additional "last post" information on the main board page: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a244/casey1992/boardpics/bfnet/last_post.png We eliminated that information because members felt it caused too much vertical scrolling. Because I kind of like it, I put it back at the browser level. If anyone wants it, I've made it available at userstyles.org. Tabs Open Relative opens new tabs next to the current tab instead of at the far right. text/plain easily opens non-clickable links. Select the URL, right-click, and open it in the same window, a new tab, or a new window. Undo Closed Tabs Button adds functionality to the built-in Undo Close Tab feature. As is, Undo Close Tabs isn't available when only one tab is open. This allows access to reopen a tab by right-clicking on any white space on a page. It also offers a toolbar button that I don't bother with. Yuku adds a status bar icon that blinks when you have new PMs, friend requests, etc., whether you're on a Yuku page or not. (The link for the Yuku extension goes to its Yuku page while other extensions in this list go to addons.mozilla.org. Yuku recommends downloading from its page rather than addons.mozilla.org because updates will appear sooner. Since the extension hasn't been updated since April, that's probably not a factor right now.) These are the search engines I currently have installed: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a244/casey1992/boardpics/bfnet/firefox_searches.png These need a bit of hand tweaking. I fixed them once, but the automatic search engine update undid my changes. I'll have to turn that off and redo the tweaks. With Google news, I had replaced the icons so they'd be different for "date" and "relevance." Also, I had "relevance" included in the "Google News" search engine name. There are actually two Baseball Reference searches available. There's one with an icon, but the the search breaks when using Context Search. The one that works somehow "forgot" to include an icon. I'll have to re-add the icon to the functional one.

Thanks for the link, cwolf2012. It looks like real time protection is disabled in the free version but that you're able to use it for scans and cleanup. Here's the link to the security bulletin for this issue: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 - Critical Security Update for Internet Explorer (960714)

Download "Malwarebytes Anti-Malware" I've heard this is very good, but I think you have to pay for this. Is there a free version? Thanks for the signature material, Chio151. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

I'll lock this in favor of the thread with all the details: 2009 Brewers On Deck Event

I edited a link to the Haudricourt article into the lead so people could see the context. As brewjihad says, we're seeing yet another example of Tom tossing in an opinion among facts. He has no business doing that in a news story; that should be reserved for a column or his blog. And even in those cases, to maintain his own integrety, he should be making it clear that he's expressing his own opinion rather than that of someone else. A separate paragraph would be a nice start. Why keep Mike around? I'd respond by saying, "Why not?" On the Brewers' end, the investment has already been made and he isn't crowding someone else off of a roster. And on Mike's end, he's done everything in his power to deserve a continued opportunity.

I've never had problems with pop ups until now, and every once in a while I get a pop up that I know is not legit that says something attacked my computer and I need to install someone to fix it, then it shows a bar like something is downloading. You very likely have spyware or a virus. However, to fix things, don't do what the popup says. Fake virus and spyware scans are part of the scheme to give you more malware. I'd update all the malware tools you have and scan with those. If that isn't good enough, check into other legitimate options. Coming here is as good as good a choice as any. You might also have some luck by trying to do a System Restore. If you have a recent restore point from just before the issues arose, that might help. It wouldn't remove the malware, but it could possibly disable it. The Microsoft update is legit. The problem is that people are scared of them because many Microsoft updates cause issues due to sloppy design or whatever. When an update is labeled "emergency" and is issued out of schedule, I think you have to go ahead and do it. By the way, this issue can also cause malware to be sucked in by Outlook and Outlook Express.

It's huge. Do the update now, even if you try to stay away from Internet Explorer. Additionally, Yuku's been having problems with porn and malware in its ads. It's possible that these issues could be related to that vulnerability. Visiting Brewerfan and LambeauLeap shouldn't be an issue because they're both free of Yuku ads, but non-Yuku Supporters viewing Yuku profiles via Internet Explorer could be at risk.

It's hard to tell which one's the mother and which one's the father. And I hope that's little JoyceLynn Aryan Nation rather than little Adolph Hitler.

I think statistical analysis backs up your opinion, logan. Strikeouts really don't come into play when comparing the offensive value of two players. It's essentially a qualitative stat rather than quantitative. That doesn't mean that there aren't differences based on game situations. There are times when a strikeout is better than a ball in play out, there are times when it's worse, and there are times when it's about the same. Among other things, a manager may want to consider strikeouts when choosing a pinch hitter.