I’m not sure how the problem was created but this seemed to be the solution to my problem, your mileage may vary:

[E]dit the Certificate and Key Storage in the Startup Application Preferences. Remove all arguments. Leave it as “gnome-keyring-daemon”. (HT nota kaki)

It seems that one of the biggest battle grounds of this war is over speed. I tried the beta 2 of FF and didn’t really notice any speed differences. Though this is from my eeepc (with the old celeron, not even the newer atom processor) so that could be the biggest bottleneck right there.

I’m a sucker for shiny new things, so I have already downloaded the FF 3.1b3. I hear development on chrome for linux is moving quickly, that will be nice to try out too. If I’m impressed with the new beta, I might write some more about it.

I wish I would of grabbed a screen shot of the madness that IE created with FUMCclass.com. The paragraphs were invisible, the headers we sized so big that just a few letters were filling up the whole screen, not to mention problems with the sidebar & footer. It took me about 10 hours total spanning over two days to get most everything lined out. There are still parts that I need to look into.

The trouble with having ubuntu is that I can’t debug in IE. The other day I came to the great idea of using wine. Well trying to do it with wine is very difficult but luckily someone has made it easy; in the form of IEs4Linux. The install is pretty easy, with a gui; though it seemed to be kind of buggie. It hung on the first install, so I had to try again.

IE7 support is still in beta, but from my testing I couldn’t get it to work. It would open though I could never get a page to pull up with it. I didn’t spend much time with it though, so it could of been an error on my part. I was able to get IE6 (and I didn’t try 5.5 or 5) running. Though definitely not stable enough to do anything important, it should be helpful in the future for web development.

After following a link from TheResurgence to the ‘Holy Joe‘ tract at Chick.com, I browsed around the site. The testimonials were pretty funny, but not a as funny as “Papa” the tract to ‘expose’ the evil empire that is Catholicism.

For those who didn’t know, Satan errected the Catholic church as the empire of power to replace the Roman Empire when it fell.

And if that wasn’t enough…who remembers passing the note in class with, “do you like me, check yes or no”? Well salvation is just as simple, apparently.

{I should probably get some of these. I have some family that are Catholic; who knew they were sleeping with devil.}

[update]

I came across this today thanks to TadDelay. Though Chick makes into looking like a parody; there could be trouble for the Catholic church, possibly indulgences coming back into vouge.

I was able to save about 30px just between the search box and the content below on gmail. Gmail is a very complex site, so many different divs; it was very hard to figure out what to change, even with the enormous aid of firebug.

Here is the CSS code to gain the desired results:

/*take out google logo on google docs*/
#logo-section {display:none;}
/*gain space on gmail around search box & logo*/
.IY0d9c {height: 44px;}
.zYsCRb {height: 44px !important;}

I should probably figure out how to limit the css only to certain websites, or I could end up with some weird outcomes.

Sensitivity to cultural and political issues is also an important consideration. Designing icons and sounds, and even choosing colors requires some understanding of the connotations they might have to a user from a different part of the world.

Examples of elements it is best to avoid for these reasons include:

* Pictures of flags or money

* Maps showing political boundaries or contentious location names

* Lists of countries or cities in non-alphabetical order (unless specifically requested or required by the context)

* Icons depicting animals

* Icons depicting only hands or feet

I think the last bullet is rather ironic since GNOME’s logo is a foot. I can understand what they were getting at with the first few bullets but the last two. What is the danger in depicting animals in icons?

1. http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/principles-broad-userbase.html.en

“When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

This seems like a clear call to accept whomever comes as if they were born here. Even if the Church can’t change the legislation on this issue(though it definitely can put a lot of pressure) it seems that we need to be the most welcoming place for a illegal immigrant to come. It is so frustrating that we can miss God so often on issues of ideologies or policy. When people use the Bible as a tool to use in their fight they are misusing the name of the Lord; which again is commanded against, this time being a matter of higher importance being that it is in the top ten list. So what are we supposed to do about all this? Jesus summed it up really well, Love God & Love People. If we aren’t loving people then it doesn’t matter how many sins we can point out in the Other. The blame that God gives to the people about the sexual conduct seems to be centered on the community, not the individual so much. If we create a community where people don’t understand Love & love then immorality is going to be played out in numerous ways. We shouldn’t be accusing the Other for the problems of the land; the blame should be riding on [each of] our shoulders. We our responsible for our contribution to the misconstruing of Love & how that is played out in all its forms, from sexuality immortality to immigration.

But I wonder if I will even notice a difference…

This time around I’m a lot more entrenched into the open-source linux as my operating system world. Before, my laptop’s wifi couldn’t work in linux so that pretty much made it useless to me–so I never explored it very deeply. From my understanding Apple’s Final Cut is the way to go for professional editing & also their Final Cut Express is a good option for the average user. Instead of simply exploiting m$ and other exploitative software corporations, I have moved towards a more liberating legal way of computing. Sadly it seems that Linux is somewhat behind on development of viable open source video editing options, although there are a few options out there.

I know Jake has recently talked about trying out Ubuntu Studio. That seems like an easy way to go. I just wonder how much extra stuff it will install which I will never use. It will be running a desktop with plenty of hard drive, so the size isn’t the issue, but it just seems excessive for what I’ll be needing. But by reading their aim, it definitely helps me to see the benefits of it, from their wiki site:

Our aim is to make it more accessible for new users to get into the tools that GNU/Linux has to offer for multimedia creation and production. We also want to spotlight what’s out there, and show users tools they might not know to exist.

It seems like a good attempt for them to try to break into that design mac-centered world, with open-source. I know all those adobe hating adobe using folks out there would like to see the light.

In my initial searching, which I am still in, two names keep popping up: Kino & Cinerella. I just got my firewire pci adapter in today, since for some reason manufactures hate putting firewire ports on their boards except for the select models. I haven’t put it in yet, supposedly it should be pretty much plug n play with ubuntu 8.04. But after that task I will definitely be trying out at Kino & Cinerella, maybe Ubuntu Studio—I wonder if I could just apt-get install ubuntu-studio, without to do a compete reinstall.

A few additional resources:

Wikipedia list of editing software

Ubuntu Studio Package List

Linux.com Article on Video Editing in Linux

Update:
I have fixed my server problems–I installed ubuntu server 8.04 with LAMP & xubuntu desktop (for my ease of use). It seems to be running a lot better than it was before. The website it definitely loading a lot faster than it was. I have put a simply view on it for at least now. I like the simple interface but I would like something slightly different. The only thing I need to do now is install a FTP server to allow remote file access.

Updated:
I didn’t realize that the webserver wasn’t working from without the intra-network. There were some other issues that I was coming across previously which I have resolved (I think) unrelated to this problem. I have tried numerous things: I’m sure I have port forwarding configed correctly, I ‘think’ I configed apache2 for external users since it is default only localhost. Any suggestions anyone?