I changed a few lines of code in BugMeNot so it would play nice with their servers. Nothing major should have been broken, but let me know if it’s wonky for you. It should show up over at AMO relatively soon. Newest version is 1.8. Version 1.7 was released for about five minutes because I forgot to take out a certain section. Enjoy.
A bug has been filed:
Currently it seems that the latest updated Addons having Problems to install since i get “Invalid file hash (possible download corruption) -261″
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424339
Hopefully this will get fixed soon.
Edit: Wait for a bit before you try to download it- looks like Mozilla’s copy of this file is corrupted somehow, so I will try and get this issue fixed as soon as I can. Thanks, everyone.
Title says it all. Look for it to appear very soon here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6349
It has to go through a delayed approval process to make sure it’s kosher for people to download. As soon as it gets approved, it will show up as version 1.6. It now has Italian localization, too (thanks, Andrew).
Illness has finally run its course at my house, I think. I hope. We all had the flu and finally got rid of it. Then the stomach virus came. It was ruthless. My wife and 3 out of 4 of my kids all had the runs and the pukes. I was single parenting it for two days, and I again wonder how the hell legitimate single parents ever do what they do. Without my wife, I flail around and can manage to get just the basics accomplished. To all of the single moms and pops out there who actually raise their children and strive to excel at their professional and personal lives and make it- my hat is off to you, good sir or madam.
Asa is fascinated by the flickery white stuff floating down into our yard. He has no interest in touching the stuff, though, because it’s so damned cold outside.
Illness has ravaged my house. We are all passing the flu back and forth to each other like some virulent badminton game, but instead of using shuttlecocks, we’re using germs and bacteria. It’s far messier and less fun than badminton, too. I’m finally getting over my bout with it, but it really kicked my ass.
I haven’t been “sick” sick for almost twenty years. I was in bed with a fever of 102 for about three days this past week, and I felt like utter and complete crap. I will be one of the first in line next year to get a flu shot.
For some reason, I assumed flu shots were only for the young and the old, and I’m kind of in between in that gray area. A nurse practitioner informed me that, no, it’s just that the young and the old can die from the flu, but you’ll still be miserable.
I was also misinformed that the shot can give you flu-like symptoms. Apparently it’s a dead vaccine, but if you get the nasal mist application, then that contains a live virus and you will get the sniffles and such.
I’m ready for our house to be healthy again. I’m tired of bathing in Purell.
BugMeNot is a Firefox extension that allows you to bypass compulsory web registration via the right-click context menu.
Say what?
Here’s an example. A friend sends you a link that sends you to a news article on, oh, let’s say, the New York Times. You click on said link, and instead of reading the actual article, you are reading a page that tells you in order to view this article, you have to fill out a registration form and become a member.
“I just wanna read the article,” you moan, withering on the floor.
Enter BugMeNot.
Now you just have to right-click on either the user name or password field, select “Login with BugMeNot,” and you are instantly logged in, using any one of several user-submitted public accounts, with their names and passwords.
This is used for mandatory, free registration, and not for pay sites. Also make a note: I am not the owner, developer, creator or maintainer of BugMeNot’s service. I simply wrote the Firefox extension that hooks in to the service. If you have any questions, praise, comments or complaints about the actual service, then visit bugmenot.com for full details of their service.
Okay, enough reading- how do I install this thing?
Fair question. Go here and follow the directions:
I made the decision a while ago to move all of my nerdy-tech stuff from a little web site called roachfiend.com to this one. I’m a big fan of simple, easy, one-place-for-all types of things. The way I have it now is just a total mess. So, this is just my own version of a warning label I’m sticking in the ether to let you know that there’s going to be an influx of nerdy posts arriving in probably short order. I think that I’m just going to host the actual files on Firefox’s site, though, and not here.
This was a tricky and hard thing to do. Let’s be honest, here. I enjoy money. I like to spend it, I like to receive it. Maybe that makes me materialistic. So, having all of my extensions on my own personal board was quite a draw- if you wanted BugMeNot, you had to come to my site. If you wanted ListZilla, you had to come to my site. You get the idea. Once you gather, say, two thousand people together on a web page- at least a couple of them will click on a link either out of curiosity, out of interest, or out of benevolent well-being. Moving all of these magnets onto a third-party site effectively removes these financial possibilities.
I think it’s time to let them go, though. They are open-source, after all, and I’d like to see them spread their wings and seek out larger audiences. I also tire of updating multiple extensions on multiple places, so perhaps giving them all one centralized home that doesn’t have to depend on my meager bandwidth is a more responsible thing to do. It also allows them to be updated and installed securely.
Back to moving. I will soon have basically all of my content switched over to here- some for historical sake, such as how to create Firefox extensions (which is slowly becoming outdated, but I genuinely think that it’s still useful and a good starting point for those who want to know more about it) and a few other random tutorials. I plan on having each individual extension ported over here also, but they will link to Firefox’s add on site for the actual installation file. I’ll just have the descriptions, screen shots, and so forth here.
So, like I said, this has been a slow, deliberate move, like a very determined sloth who has been set on fire. I also want to have a space that I can just write whatever the hell I want, and not be limited to Firefox extensions and “random technological tidbits.” I think I have a few interesting things to say. Well, I guess that’s subjective. Only time will tell, I suppose.
My boys are growing up fast. You always hear that from older people–your parents, elders, what have you. You assume it to be true, but store that way in your head for some time in the future when it might matter. I think I’m reaching the age where it is starting to ring true.
Asa’s already humongous in just a little over a year. Silas is actually starting to resemble a miniature person, instead of a tiny, shriveled mass of flesh stuffed inside a onesie. He’s starting to smile now, which is the first little sign of entertainment to come.
Watching your children interact with each other as they grow is a pretty interesting experience. It’s like building a really advanced erector set that craps itself and requires food.