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Firefox Tip of the Week – PortableFirefox

Portable Firefox – Take it with you!

This week, I’m not covering an extension, but I’m covering something that I love about Firefox and the OpenSource Community.  I love Firefox, and I want to take it wherever I go.  But I don’t want the hassle of installing it on every computer I sit at during my day at work.  In comes PortableFirefox, which you can get from http://www.portableapps.com/ .  John Haller has taken the time to take popular open-source programs and turn them into versions of the applications that don’t need to be installed, all you have to do is unzip the download and they are ready to go!  I have been using PortableFirefox for the past 6 months at work.  I keep a copy in my shared network storage, so I can run it whenever I am on a computer on the network.  I also use it to test out extensions for my extension of the week features here in the newsletter.  This way I don’t screw up my main Firefox installation with an extension that has a bug in it.  The most common way that I have seen this used is to put on a flash drive and take it computer to computer, either using Firefox wherever you are using a computer, or trying to show someone the differences and benefits of Firefox over other browsers.  Any way you look at it, it’s a great way to keep Firefox around without having to install it everywhere that you go.

Happy Portable Browsing!

Daniel A. Williams

daniel@thepcgurus.com

Paybacks are…

kinda nice.

Thank you, it couldn’t have come at a better time.

<3

You’ll be sleepin’ with the fishes, see…

I cannot begin to express the humor that was just bleeding from the screen when I watched the movie Orgazmo last night with Rob and Andrew. Sure, it looks bad. And it IS as bad as it looks, but that’s what makes it probably one of the better comedies that I have ever seen. Raunchy? Sure. Bashing the mormons? Of course. One of those movies where nothing like this could ever happen? Other than a porno becoming the top selling movie of all time, it’s fully ridiculous. But therein lies the inherent joy and wit of the movie. It’s supposed to be stupid. Supposed to make you think little and laugh much. And it does a brilliant job.

The only beef I have with the movie is that it got screwed at the ratings board. For it to be classed NC-17, it really did nothing to deserve it. Hardly any nudity, not too many blatantly distasteful passages that you would be able to get at the age of 12, and I’ve seen more gratuitousness in an R movie, albeit this was purely sexual, whereas the R movie may be totally violence. This gets me on another rant about the fact that in America, violence is cool and sex is not, and the society mirrors it (even though I do NOT believe that we mirror certain people or things, just that we mirror the overall picture of what we see). In Europe, it’s the other way around, and they have some of the lowest crime rates, even in sexual crimes.

Damnit, I got sidetracked for the past hour on wild goose chases. I might resume it later, just best to publish it now.

Our time is now

So, this summer has started out so much more than interesting. Again, I raise my arms in frustration over the assembled crew in Room 209 4 mornings out of the week. It’s just like it was last summer, but with more weeping and gnashing of teeth. Speaking of weeping, we had our first crier today, in what would be the equivalent of the 6th week of class, but just the end of the second. She held it in pretty good, but after the bitchfest she gave the professor and I yesterday, I had absolutely no sympathy. When you take a summer class, you already know the schedule is going to hit you hard and fast. Why then, must you complain about that fact right in our faces? We’re just as stressed as you with grading homework and trying to get things ready for you all, especially those less fortunate in the class that the need more and specialized attention. It’s not all fun and games, trust me.And then, there’s the office. Oh friggin boy. Let’s just say this week was the most pleasant that will be had this summer, due to the absence of one individual. I’ve mended my bridge with the one that used to give me grief, because I found out that he wasn’t griefing me, it was a ploy, a disguise from the other that has now come to the forefront.

In the ghetto. In the ghetto! The ghetto is more fun than I can ever describe. Some nights it can be tiring, but hanging out with brothers, playing washers, watching wrestling with B5 and Bittel, it’s all great times.

More later.