After upgrading to Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, I needed a clean Firefox. Firefox is my most-used program, and I use it since the very beginning (that is since I quit using some obscure -and since discontinued- program I had found to replace IE 5, and moved to the new ‘unbloated/browser only’ part of the mozilla suite, then called phoenix ). I use many extensions, tweaked the user.prefs and so on, but I needed a clean base so:

• I use Fx 2.0.0.3, upgraded from 2.0.0.1 as I switched to Feisty. YMMMV
• less and less Fx extensions are producing memory leaks. But check in any case.
• I started Fx in safe mode and disabled extensions / add-ons (first tick), then reinstalled the following extensions:
  1. All-in-One sidebar 0.7.1 (0.7.2b2 is available)
  2. custom buttons 0.0.1.2 (because I use URL-Tools 0.4)
  3. Show Anchors 1.51
  4. looked at but did not install (yet!) Copy Plain Text 0.3.3 (Jeremy Gillick created so many cool extensions)
  5. del.icio.us 1.2 to have a « bookmark this » button (NOT the *new* firefox bookmarks extension 1.5.29, which messes all Fx bookmarks)
  6. DownThemAll 0.9.9.7
  7. PDF Download 0.8
  8. Sage 1.3.10
  9. ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 (ex- PFF)
  10. StumbleUpon 3.05
  11. OpenSearchFox to easily add sites to Firefox Search Box
• tweaked Fx according to Zolved (suggested by Lifehacker):
  in about:config,
  1. I checked that browser.cache.memory.enable was set to true
  2. I created an integer browser.cache.memory.capacity with a value of 12228 (guess my RAM ?)
  3. I created a boolean config.trim_on_minimize and set it to true
• I also used those tricks collected by Gina Trapani:
  1. set browser.tabs.closeButtons to 2 (no more close buttons: I use middle-click)
  2. set browser.chrome.toolbar_tips to false (no more chrome tooltips)
  3. set browser.urlbar.hideGoButtonto true to turn off the rarely-used Go button at the end of the address bar

Following this post : Performance tip for Ubuntu Edgy and Feisty users (via Digg !), I discovered some info on ubuntuforums about the /etc/hosts file.
My internet access problems always falled back on the same symptoms: if at startup I had no IPv6 line in the peripheral tab (I refer to System>Administration>Network Tools>peripherals tab> show eth1 in the network peripherals drop down-list), there was no way I could access to the Internet (NOT an hardware issue – I use a xDSL triple-play provider, TV, VoIP phone & Internet access through my wife’s i-book are always OK). When (after a reboot or two, or three, or four… waiting an hour, or two, or three…) I had the IPv6 line, all was OK.
When I say no way, that was no way. Neither sudo ifdown eth1 && sudo ifup eth1, nor sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart could do anything (beleive me I tried). Nada.

So I peered at /etc/hosts and commented all IPv6 lines as such :
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost myhostname
127.0.1.1 myhostname
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
# fe00::0 ip6-localnet
# ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
# ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
# ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
# ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Since then, no more problems. I mean IPv6 shows in the right tab anytime, and I can access Internet…

[Edit] LEETturtle teaches how to remove IPv6, for Internet speed reasons.

I have kept this page of Time magazine in my desk since 1992. Looks like the hardest day of someone’s life, snapshot in the instant. He never recovered, went to work for Nike (and was later part of a strange doped athlete story)

[HowTo] enabl[e] autoscroll, which allows you to scroll the page by clicking the middle mouse button and moving the mouse up to scroll up and down to scroll down. This can be easily enabled in the Advanced section of the Preferences window, or you can filter on « autoscroll » in the « about:config » window and set general.autoScroll to true. [x]

j’adore l’escalade et je joue du violon .je suis dans un tres bon college ou les professeurs sont tres gentils .

Ceci est le premier post d’Adèle.

Mark Shuttleworth: « I believe that’s how we will really change the world, and how we will deliver the full benefit of the movement started more than two decades ago by Richard Stallman. » [x]

Jason Hunter: « [I]n 2002 I bought a document scanner, and it’s forever changed the way I manage paper assets. Every tax deductible receipt, every contract I’ve signed, every loan agreement, and basically every important document in my life has been scanned and stored as a multi-page TIFF file under my Perforce repository. A digital library of scanned documents makes everything immediately available, even when I’m on the road, with no cabinet required–all for the price of maybe 15 minutes a week scanning. I put documents to scan on top of the scanner itself and work through them when it’s late, I don’t feel like working, and I don’t feel like vegging. It’s fun the same way ripping CDs is fun: a mindless accomplishment. After scanning, the documents get piled unceremoniously into an 8.5"x11" box (just like before but this time without any guilt!). Each box represents one calendar year. I find the 10 ream printer paper boxes work marvelously. The papers need no extra organization in the real world because they’re organized online. I keep the paper copies in case of audit, at which point I’ll have the motivation to pore through the stack looking for the physical document that matches the digital file. » [x]

Daher est une société multiforme qui s’occupe (aussi) de projection de forces sur les théatres d’opération, approvisionnement des forces en opération pour leur maintien en conditions opérationnelles, et retrait de forces en fin de mission (Recrutement)