Why Live Messenger, IE suck

June 24th, 2009 by r.jimi

NO SPELL CHECK. Why do these products not have a built in spell checker? Or maybe they do but I can’t find it? Any MS apologists want to explain the rationale?

I got iespell, I haven’t noticed it actually working in IE 8.

I have switched back to Pidgin for many reasons. The damn ad rotator in MSN Live can be blocked by editing the hosts file, which is generally located at %WINDOWS%\System32\Drivers\Etc.

Add the following line:

127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com

But, the lack of spell check broke the camel’s back. I’m back to Pidgin for messaging. Which now has a SameTime (Lotus Notes) plug-in, which is kinda sweet. Go go FOSS!

/end rant

Windows 7 – Ext2IFS – Reboot Problem

June 11th, 2009 by r.jimi

Here’s another guy’s issues with Ext2IFS not remembering the drive letters on reboot. His solution is to run some scripts on startup.

Don’t want to post the scripts? I’m sure it isn’t difficult, but any jump start is generally worthwhile. I was about to report also, but if Stephan already knows, then I’m sure it will be investigated.

Anyway, if I get around to it and do this myself, I will post my scripts.

Mr. Lif @ Grog Shop

June 11th, 2009 by r.jimi

Tonight yo! Hopefully Lif isn’t too tired. I know from reading interviews and such with Lif that performing shows isn’t neccessarily his thing, but I’ve been down since “Emergency Rations”.

I myself am tired, trying to keep lively at work. I have enough tasks, just don’t want to do them. Whooo! Lif! (Smacks self across the face a few times)