Well, I've just changed the comments component that I had installed (chronocomments) to jcomments. I couldn't get chronocomments to actually show the comments and I think it was something to do with the SH404 add-in I was using. I don't want to bag chronocomments at all - It just didn't work for me here and I was too lazy to try and get it to work!

Particularly when I installed JComments, then imported the ChronoComments,  and then it worked first up!!! Fantastic. I'm stoked.

I found this very excellent Firefox extension. It's called Noojee Click. What does it do?

It interacts with a VOIP PBX such as Asterisk, Trixbox, etc. and allows you to click numbers presented on a web page, which in turn dial the configured VOIP phone to call the clicked number. VERY COOL.

I can now search for  people in the White pages and just click the Nojee icon beside the number and my phone automatically dials that number. He, he, he, fantastic. Check it out.

I upgraded my Gimp to version 2.6 on Fedora 9 today. I managed to find someone who had packaged up the required packages and supporting libraries here. Incidentally, the gimp 2.6.0 versions of the RPMS/SRPMS DO NOT exist as listed - replace 2.6.0 with 2.6.1 in the URLs and voila! I downloaded the SRPMS and 'rpmbuild --rebuild' them. Only one didn't work - glib2 - I installed the listed f8 RPM and it works fine.

 As part of the upgrade the Toolbox no longer exists with the Xtns Menu. This has now become File, Create. Seems a logical change and more 'intuititive'. BUT....

... if you have created or added any non-standard scripts (.scm) files and they use to be under that Toolbox, Xtns menu then they need to be changed to reflect the new 2.6 menu layout.

 I wrote a very small bash script to copy an existing pre-2.6 scm file and change the appropriate menu-register parts to reflect the new 2.6 menu structure. The original file is not altered - a new scm is created with -26 added:

#!/bin/bash for file in $* do        sed -e "\            s/<Toolbox>\/Xtns\/Script-Fu/\<Image\>\/File\/Create/g; \            s/<Toolbox>\/Xtns/\<Image\>\/File\/Create/g;\             " $file > /tmp/2gimp26$$.scm         cp /tmp/2gimp26$$.scm `basename $file .scm`-26.scm done rm /tmp/2gimp26$$.scm

 

I was having lunch yesterday in a customers lunch room and noticed a Consumer magazine on the table. So I started reading it. I came across an article on photo-editing software and lo and behold there was GIMP mentioned! It even gave it a good review. Woo hoo! GIMP's gone mainstream, down-under.

Long time no blog.... 

Oh well....

I have created a Firefox (IE7 too) search plugin for the NZ White Pages. Nothing special. But just gives you the ability to search for someones name without having to go to the whitepages.co.nz site first.

Howto: If you are running Firefox or IE7 you should now be able to drop down your search box providers (normally top, right-most box in your web browser) and see an "Add NZ White Pages" option. If you do that then you can search for people in the white pages directly from that search box. Cool. 

 

Oh, and don't tell White Pages I beat them to the punch....!

 

UPDATE:  2008-10-15: I have added Pricespy and Shop Bot to my list of installable Firefox search plugins.