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snipe

12:02 AM

Journeyman Geek

heh, the zune theme

pity royale noir never got finished

snipe

this looks epic IMO

homestead wasnt so nice (luna green)

8 doesnt have classic mode either

or hadware profiles, or appearence options in display properties

Michael Frank

UGH! Just spent half a day manually guiding a machine through a rebuild by modifying it's AD object during the process. The user logged in and said "Oh it's frozen...", then when she restarted VGAOEM.FON had corrupted and now we have to start again.

snipe

12:36 AM

does windows need that font to boot properly

Michael Frank

apparently.

Journeyman Geek

1:12 AM

wired.com/2015/03/stealing-data-computers-using-heat whoa

Bob

1:27 AM

@snipe XP is slow on modern hardware.

Most glaringly, it's 32-bit so you're missing out on a bunch of extra registers and address space.

It's also not compiled to take advantage of newer CPU instructions. Though it's kinda wrong to say "newer" for stuff over a decade old.

It's also lacking a lot of improvements to the kernel, etc., such as the removal of the Kernel Dispatcher Lock.

That means it wastes more cycles on context switching.

studiohack

2:36 AM

GAH - the newest version of firefox does not work well on high resolution screens - all the buttons and UI is bigger. Any ideas for reducing size? I already looked for the "small" icons button but that doesn't seem to help

Bob

3:21 AM

o.o

@studiohack Which version?

And which OS?

Works fine for me on high-DPI Windows 8

studiohack

36.0.4 on 8.1 - 3200 x 1800 @JourneymanGeek

tabs are bigger - pages are zoomed in, tab text is larger... I can zoom out of pages and it keeps, but the tab text is irritating. Not blind!

Journeyman Geek

XD. I don't have anything that nice... yet ;p

Bob

3:39 AM

@studiohack Photo?

I have a 1920x1200 / 10" screen at 125% DPI without issues.

(yes, the physical size is important - this is talking DPI)

I'll be getting a 3200x1800 / 13" screen soon, which I suspect will also have to run on a high DPI setting

If you have 3200x1800 / 24", though, that's a different matter

studiohack

This is very high DPI

a 14" screen

Journeyman Geek

o0

studiohack

13.3" sorry

Bob

Heh. I'll have an identical one in ~2 weeks

studiohack

276 ppi

Bob

3:43 AM

Don't see any scaling issues on the 10" though

studiohack

Lenovo Yoga Pro 2

@Bob that's pretty sweet! see above for a 13.3" screen, similar rez

Bob

@studiohack See, it looks fine in a screenshot (hard to tell physical without a photo) but this is really a case of your personal preference clashing and not really an issue with the program itself. I suspect just as many people prefer the larger size...

There's probably an addon that changes it if you want.

studiohack

@Bob my point is wondering if I can tweak the text size in the tabs...

Bob

Or you can modify the CSS - the FF UI is implemented in XUL/CSS.

studiohack

tired of all the addons. Getting used to it already.

maybe I'll leave it.

Journeyman Geek

3:48 AM

;p

This has me curious ._.

Bob

@studiohack userChrome.css

Journeyman Geek

/me is a few months away from being able to get the screen he's been eying a while ;p

studiohack

@JourneymanGeek about what?

@JourneymanGeek gonna get a high resolution laptop?

Journeyman Geek

lol no

Desktop, eyeing a 24 or 27 inch 4K IPS display

Bob

.tabbrowser-tab {
    font-size: 12px;
}

^ that's default

changing font size doesn't change tab height, though

Journeyman Geek

3:51 AM

The one I want's about 500-600USD/800-900 SGD

Bob

Or transform: scale(0.5); but that doesn't look quite right

studiohack

I've never messed with my browsers CSS

and honestly even if I change it, it's gonna have to be something I live with on future versions.

Bob

.tabbrowser-tabs {
  transform-origin: 0 100%;
  transform: scale(0.5);
}

That's 50% size

studiohack

You'll see from my screenshot that I keep the taskbar on the side, I finally figured out that was the most efficient use of such a wide space.

my ideal desktop set up (that i've had before) is two horizontal monitors and one vertical.

speaking of, I need to rebuild my desktop.

Just need $500 USD!

(see what you can do with 500 USD haha @JourneymanGeek? :P THat's a pretty nice monitor though)

I do like IPS)

Journeyman Geek

@studiohack: the dell P series? We have the older, full HD ones as second tier monitors. Even those are lovely

(at work. Our first tier ones are SERIOUSLY fancy, colour caliberated eizos.)

Bob

3:58 AM

@studiohack The tab bar is part of the window title, anyway

Scaling the tab bar down doesn't actually make it any (vertically) smaller

Journeyman Geek

wait, what?

boingboing.net/2015/03/23/the-king-smuggler-of-contraban.html I unknowingly clicked on the second link there (which is an actual article on playboy.com) and I didn't hit the content filter our local ISPs are supposed to have

Journeyman Geek

4:19 AM

@studiohack: trying to put aside ~200 sgd a month for geeky stuff. Yay for actual salaries.

Journeyman Geek

6:18 AM

damn it kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/magzet/…

Oh, it would ship here. ugh. stuff like this makes the 3 month rule hard ;p

Bob

8:37 AM

@JourneymanGeek Bah. would cost more than my headphones for questionable benefit.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I have stuff where that would be useful ;p

Oliver Salzburg

9:21 AM

This struck me as a weird way to label your products

In German "Bad" means "bath"

Oliver Salzburg

9:32 AM

Apparently Chrome silently imports history data from other browsers on install

Journeyman Geek

9:43 AM

That looks bad ass

Oliver Salzburg

10:18 AM

Constantly reminds me of that

Oliver Salzburg

10:42 AM

Heh, I recently closed several software-rec questions by a user who now got auto-flagged for "multiple closed questions"

User hasn't been active in 2 years, but now all his questions are closed and/or deleted :P

Journeyman Geek

oops? ;p

Oliver Salzburg

11:31 AM

Anyone have an idea how to emulate a browser in a different timezone? I'm currently using a VM, but it would be nice to simply use a different Chrome profile or something

Changing my local timezone won't work, because I'm already running the server component on my machine and the browser has to be a different timezone than the server

Journeyman Geek

11:45 AM

How different?

HackToHell

12:06 PM

Blah it's summer and my laptop is running too hot ;p

Journeyman Geek

12:19 PM

ahh

@OliverSalzburg: chances are your browser will be picking up time from the system clock

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, it does

But I've set up a fresh VM by now

Now I'm back in localization hell

rlemon

1:58 PM

anyone here have experience with Tera Term? I'm looking for a linux command line alternative (needs to play well with QNX4, which minicom does not... strips/ignores some characters)

Putty cli is being a dork... no matter what I do It always barks at me Gtk WARNING: cannot open dispaly:

Oliver Salzburg

2:31 PM

I'm always fine with ssh, so I can't help

rlemon

I'm blaming Angstrom distro.

going to see if things run smoother on Debian

Bob

3:16 PM

6

Q: Fake time zone for web app testing

I have a web app and some people in Asia are seeing some weird time zone issues with the dates in the program. Is there a way to fake chrome or firefox or IE to pretend like my computer's timezone is like theirs so I can debug the issues easily?

no real answers :P

Oliver Salzburg

Aw :(

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

how is this webapp using the timezone?

Oliver Salzburg

I was about to ask if stackoverflow.com/a/11460794/259953 works on Windows as well

Bob

you could probably override with a userscript

@OliverSalzburg Maybe!

set TZ=blah

Depends if FF on Windows reads TZ

Oliver Salzburg

3:18 PM

Well, the problem mostly arises from using new Date(timestamp) which will create it in local time or UTC depending on the format of the timestamp

Bob

kb.mozillazine.org/Time_and_time_zone_settings o.o

@OliverSalzburg TZ might work on Windows, though apparently it is (was?) a bug :P

> A Windows bug can affect time zones in Mozilla applications.

To check your system, use the System Configuration Utility (MSCONFIG) or another method to look for an environment variable named TZ.

Oliver Salzburg

And, well, we didn't really account for certain use cases. Like when people manage a fair, but they're not in the same timezone as the fair

Long story short; shitty coding

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Just use UTC everywhere. Easier.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob That's what I'm in the process of implementing

The real PITA are some external components. Like, I had this calendar component. You pass it a UTC date (let's the January 1st) to create a calendar entry from, and it places the entry on the 31st of December, because that is the correct local day for the UTC date

Not cool

Some of the omnibox suggestions in a fresh Chrome install are really interesting

192.168.l.l

Now that's something

How many people have to enter that so it makes the top suggestion?

Journeyman Geek

3:42 PM

lol

there's a site about that I thinl

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