my firefox 3.0 extensions updated again

I'm a little disappointed with adblock. It seemed to be missing most of the ads that I expected it to block. This might be a configuration problem but I tried playing with it for a few minutes and did not see any obvious improvement.

So I backed out adblock and installed privoxy but *not* tor and added torbutton. This seems to work better.

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my firefox 3.0 extensions updated

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imap to text messaging

A few days ago I got unlimited text messaging for my cell phone. This is a new thing for me. One feature that I didn't know that I was going to get is the ability to receive a text message that is sent to me via e-mail ( though not to send a text message to e-mail w/o getting an extra charge ).

I got to thinking that it would be nice to able to get e-mail through my phone while away from my computer. Ideally the technique for doing this would be independent of my email provider. After searching for and failing to find a program that would do this I ended up writing a python script that would monitor my IMAP inbox and send me a text message whenever a new entry appeared. The program is available in github:

git://github.com/dc25/imaptomsg.git

building knowit 0.11a1 on ubuntu 8.04

downloaded knowit-0.11a1.tar.bz2
ran make -f Makefile.cvs - this failed due to tool versioning problems and missing automake
sudo apt-get automake
edited admin/cvs.sh to fix versioning problems
make -f Makefile.cvs
./configure
make
sudo make install

can now run /usr/bin/knowit

building knowit on ubuntu 8.04

downloaded stable knowit
./configure failed with following error message:
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

Installed the following packages using synaptic:
qt3-devtools (may not have needed this one)
libqt3-headers
libqt3-mt-dev
kde
kde-devel

./configure
make
sudo make install

(success!)

can now run knowit as /usr/local/kde/bin/knowit

switching to mercurial

After using bazaar for a few weeks, I'm switching to mercurial because it is faster. I was seeing check across the network (using bzr+ssh) in of a modified quicken qdf file ( about 12mb) take 15 minutes or so. Using mercurial this takes just a few seconds. I imagine that mercurial is doing a better job of diffing binary files. Also mercurial has better error messages. Also, mercurial worked out of the box in cygwin - though I'm using the windows native mercurial now.

I still like some things about bazaar better. It seems to handle empty directories better - I'm not sure if mercurial handles them at all. Mercurial assigns a hex string to each version. Is it a hash key? Probably. These strings are more visible than I would like them to be.

I still may try git at some point. For now though, I'm using mercurial.