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Fix Firefox image decoding performance regression

27/01/2012 – 18:34

For some reason Mozilla changed Firefox to decode imagines only when they are visible, meaning that they now slowly appear as you scroll down a page instead of loading quickly in the background first. Seems like a misguided attempt to save some memory. The fix is to set image.mem.decodeondraw to false.

By mojo | Also posted in software | Comments (0)

Gigabyte crapware

19/01/2012 – 14:12

Picked up a cheap ex-display Gigabyte mobo in mint condition. By all accounts it is a good board, but man do Gigabyte love “value added” crapware. Some examples: Auto Green – Sleep or power down your PC from a Bluetooth device. Since Bluetooth has a range of about 25mm it seems like it would be [...]

By mojo | Also posted in hardware | Comments (0)

The Novatech website is shit

19/01/2012 – 10:45

Just popped on to the Novatech site to check some prices and noticed how shit it is. For example, if you look at SSDs there is no capacity category, you can only filter by price range or manufacturer. That was crappy back in 1998, and 14 years later it is pretty much unforgivable. Novatech isn’t [...]

By mojo | Also posted in Internet | Comments (0)

Google can’t spell

24/09/2011 – 23:06

Been a bit slow with updates lately. Anyway, apparently Google can’t spell: Google tries to make suggestions based on what it has scanned from web pages, but it seems that they didn’t filter out common errors… Google, U R TEH DUMB LOL Still, Google docs is excellent. Now you can upload any filetype I [...]

By mojo | Also posted in Internet | Comments (0)

BBC twisting quotes again

30/06/2011 – 09:07

I had thought that maybe the problems with reporting the tsunami in Japan were partly due to the language barrier, but it looks to me more systematic than that. Spotted this gem today: Headline: ‘Full blown crisis’ Quote: “The good news is, they are not allowing it to become a full-blown crisis,” The headline implies [...]

By mojo | Also posted in BBC | Comments (0)

Animal cruelty

10/08/2010 – 18:36

Someone attacked my cat. The put some black stuff around his ear and cut the whiskers on one side of his face down to about 1cm. I reported it to the RSPCA. I just hope it was some kids who will get bored soon. The thought that an adult would intentionally do something like that [...]

By mojo | Also posted in law | Comments (0)

MS Browser Ballot fails

24/02/2010 – 15:06

Just got the first XP machine with the Browser Ballot update on it. I clicked “next” and IE8 came up with a window asking me to choose my settings. I closed it and selected Firefox from the available options. Internet Explorer opened and downloaded Firefox. I installed it and the browser ballot window was still [...]

By mojo | Also posted in Internet, software | Comments (0)

Vistaprint can’t print red

09/02/2010 – 18:46

I decided to get some business cards made. I produced the design in Inkscape according to Vistaprint’s specification: A nice shade of red I thought. Unfortunately, Vistaprint can’t print red: I included a few red and different colour items in the photo for comparison. I was a bit surprised at this as I had followed [...]

By mojo | Comments (0)

No more Wikipedia editing

08/12/2009 – 18:31

I have decided to give up editing Wikipedia. Stupidity, American-centric ideas and the ability of people with too much time on their hands to enforce their personal preferences has not only driven a lot of good editors away, but it has also done a lot of damage to the content too. If you compare the [...]

By mojo | Also posted in Internet, politics | Comments (1)

Halfwit racists

25/11/2009 – 22:49

I don’t know why I keep reading the BBC Have Your Say forums. I fear I may be turning into a Daily Mail reader, hooked on that feeling or moral outrage. Anyway… No. There are millions of pictures of non-black people being ridiculed (i.e. George Bush, Tony Blair, Bunker Brown, Nick Griffin, Wayne Rooney etc, [...]

By mojo | Also posted in politics | Comments (2)

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