a7p's » firefox http://a7p.org/blog code, confusion, confessions Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:54:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Setting up a WindowsPC – Part I (hope it’ll be only a triology) http://a7p.org/blog/2009/02/04/setting-up-a-windowspc-%e2%80%93%c2%a0part-i-hope-itll-be-only-a-triology/ http://a7p.org/blog/2009/02/04/setting-up-a-windowspc-%e2%80%93%c2%a0part-i-hope-itll-be-only-a-triology/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:11:53 +0000 A7P http://a7p.org/blog/2009/02/04/setting-up-a-windowspc-%e2%80%93%c2%a0part-i-hope-itll-be-only-a-triology/ Continue reading →]]> /me has to set up a WindowsPC – has been a long time since I was last forced into this. I feel a bit rusty concerning Windows matters.
Here I will list what I’ve done so far:
  1. installed Antivir
  2. system updates (including all the restriction stuff)
  3. activating – via telephone (yeah, this sucks), since I’ve installed this version too often (used it for VM-experiments heavily)
  4. installed Mozilla Firefox 3
  5. installed Mozilla Thunderbird
  6. installed OpenOffice 3
  7. installed 7zip (free compressor)
  8. installed Flash (and felt bad about it)
  9. installed AcrobateReader (and felt bad about it too)
  10. installed VirtualBox
  11. installed Console 2 (latest beta)
  12. concated my partimage-files (I want to virtualize an old W2k-installation with lot’s of ugly software which needs to get activated) – did not install ‘cat’, but tried: copy /b <fileA?+<fileB>+<fileC>+<fileD> <newfile>
  13. used 7zip to uncompress the resulting file
  14. used VBoxManage.exe convertfromraw <infile> <outfile.vdi> to generate a VirtualBox disk image.

Then I got struck – my newly generated image simply did not boot – more on this later.

Currently everything to step 9 would be a simple aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade && aptitude install <application-list> under Linux.

Things I did not install:

  • Palm Desktop (this PC will be used with an old Garmin): I hope it will work from the virtual machine … this software and it’s drivers are at least a pain.
  • M$-Office: only got an old very old version and don’t feel like buying a new one. Excel and co will be available in the VM as a fallback option – OpenOffice should do the job.
]]> http://a7p.org/blog/2009/02/04/setting-up-a-windowspc-%e2%80%93%c2%a0part-i-hope-itll-be-only-a-triology/feed/ 0 Firefox Extensions (unlinked) http://a7p.org/blog/2008/03/22/firefox-extensions-unlinked/ http://a7p.org/blog/2008/03/22/firefox-extensions-unlinked/#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:15:55 +0000 A7P http://a7p.org/2008/03/22/firefox-extension/ Continue reading →]]> There’s a lot of pages out there presenting “the very best firefox-plugins” – I won’t do that – I’ll just list which ones I use (so I know where to look up the names):
  • AdBlockPlus
  • del.icio.us Bookmarks
  • Dictionary (EN/DE)
  • disable menu
  • download statusbar (and I even send some money to the author *g*)
  • Firebug
  • Flagfox (really interesting)
  • Flashblock (really necessary these days)
  • Fullerscreen
  • Greasemonkey
  • HideTabBar
  • ImageZoom
  • Live HTTP Headers
  • ScribeFire
  • SearchWords (brilliant one)
  • SessionManager
  • UpdateScanner
  • TabMixPlus (allows you to turn tabs into windows)
  • Zotero (it’s soooo cool)

Okay, that’s that – am too lazy for linking today, maybe some other day.

]]> http://a7p.org/blog/2008/03/22/firefox-extensions-unlinked/feed/ 0 Doing bibliography the way I always wanted http://a7p.org/blog/2008/01/12/doing-bibliography-the-way-i-always-wanted/ http://a7p.org/blog/2008/01/12/doing-bibliography-the-way-i-always-wanted/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:45:48 +0000 A7P http://a7p.org/2008/01/12/doing-bibliography-the-way-i-always-wanted/ Zotero is a really excellent tool for managing your literature, right where you stumble upon it – in you (favourite) Browser (which is mozilla-firefox of course).

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