The blog of vigge_sWe
Why Ubuntu is not for desktop use
Aug 28th
I have recently switched to Ubuntu because some of my RAM sticks are defect (6000+ errors in memtest) and Windows doesn’t like that. Although Ubuntu looks nice at the first glance, it isn’t as user-friendly as they say. There is lots of bugs and annoying parts. Software that exist for both Windows and Ubuntu doesn’t behave in the same way. Here are some of my issues and opinions:
Authentications
Why? I can understand it’s needed for security because some users are retarded to run every little program they get their hands on. But! Why do I have to login twice? Once to login, and once to unlock the key-ring? Why do I have to authenticate twice just to change network proxy settings? Why do I have to authenticate to connect to a network? Why do I have to authenticate to use Empathy? Even if I enable auto-login, I still have to authenticate to the key-ring. So I can chose either login twice or once, meh.
Windows doesn’t have this password issue, because, well, it doesn’t use passwords in other ways than login. I never had any security problems in Windows ever, because I know not to run every single .exe I find. Linux assumes the user is retarded to do this. (Well I’ve been told that the authentications exist so programs can’t rm -rf / your hdd etc).
Clipboard
Why is the clipboard so annoying? Why do the clipboard erase if I close the application I copied the text from? Do I have to have every application constantly running to ensure I don’t lose any data? I am using the clipboard in Windows very often and I close Firefox when I don’t need it, because it annoys me to have apps running when I don’t need them. I often have text in my clipboard that I might want to use later. Sometimes I close Firefox in reflex and then that URL I just copied is lost. Clipboard managers like parcellite doesn’t do their job very good. The history is there, except that the clipboard is still erased when I close the origin application. How much RAM can some text really use? Say I copy a 10KB text (which would be how many characters? 10 240?) I can’t see it taking up too much RAM when I have 4GB? Most users have at least 1GB haven’t they? Right now only 600MB RAM is used.
Chat
Why doesn’t Empathy login to chat services automatically on system start? Why do I have to authenticate for it to login to chat services? I am one of those that forget to login to msn etc if the computer does it for me.
Startup applications
“Automatically remember running applications when logging out”. Then why not start them next time you login? What’s the point of remembering them if they do not start at next login…
Firefox
Why doesn’t Firefox behave like Firefox on windows? You have to click 3 times in the navigation bar instead of one in Windows. Not everyone know how to use about:config and what to change. Not so user friendly there.
Why doesn’t backspace go back a page like it does in Windows? Again not everyone know how to use about:config.
Why doesn’t auto-complete URL work? Or, why doesn’t it exist? The key to add to about:config in windows doesn’t work in Ubuntu.
Random bugs
Why does the notification area move to a random position with every start? Why does the panel that says my account name (the one with a speech bubble) replace the shutdown button from time to time? Why does Ubuntu complain that the hdd is corrupt, when I can ignore it by pressing i? I have run tests and it shows the hdd is healthy.
Until these things are fixed, I am gonna say Ubuntu has a long way to go to be as user-friendly as Windows is.
Popularity: 1%
Make your computer secure for free
Aug 5th
Computer security is one essential step to do if you don’t want to be hacked or to have a slow PC. There are lots of lots of solution, both free and paid ones. There is many different opinions of what is the best software, but I’m gonna show you how I have it set up.
Browser: Firefox
I use Firefox for it’s many ways of customization. Some of the plugins I gonna show you also depends on Firefox.
Antivirus: Avast! Free Antivirus
I have tried several paid and free antivirus softwares, like cloud AV, F-Secure, Avira, and none has been as good as Avast! is. With it’s recent update to the UI it makes it much more easier to use. It got a lot of protection that I haven’t seen in any other free antivirus software. Filesystem protection, webscan, emailscan, P2P protection, IM protection, network protection, some sort of UAC-like protection. All for free. If I would happen to download a virus from the net, avast! will instantly block the connection as it discovers the virus.
Browser plugin: Adblock+
Lots of ads contain virus and other malware. They also can be very annoying. To get rid of them, both for a cleaner and safer web, I use Adblock+. I do encourage you to disable Adblock+ on your favorite sites to show them some support.
Browser plugin: Web Of Trust
Web Of Trust warns you about bad sites. It doesn’t only warn you about viruses, but for scams and other phishing attacks too. It’s better than siteadvisor as it classes the sites per sub-domain, not per domain. Because a sub-domain is doing something bad doesn’t mean the rest of the domain is bad (like on free hosts when there are several users on a domain).
That is all you need for a safe computer. And maybe a firewall, but I can’t suggest any firewall as I don’t use one as my router has a built-in one.
Why no no-script?
In my opinion no-script is pretty useless. Most if not all websites uses javascript for functionality and design. When one come over a site that doesn’t work, they allow javascript without checking what the javascript does anyway, and that defeats the purpose. Also, if you were gonna have a virus downloaded by javascript, avast! is there to block it as it has a web scanner that scans everything downloaded.
Popularity: 1%
New bike!
Jun 22nd
My last bike was stolen, so we bought a new bike. It was for 8888 SEK ($1147).
Popularity: 1%
Using your PSP as controller for ePSXe
Jun 12th
I wanted to play a Playstation 1 game I used to play when I was a kid but my PS1 is already broken and I switched my PS2 into a 360, so I decided to go with an PS1 emulator, ePSXe, to play it on something I already have, a computer. I don’t own any USB-controllers though and using a keyboard is just plain dull. But I do have a PSP with a custom firmware on, M33-6. Sure, I could have ran the game directly on the PSP, but it just didn’t work as the game froze when doing various things. So I decided to use a software called pspDisp. Sure, it is made for extending your screen to your PSP using your console as a secondary screen, but it also allows you to map the keyboard and mouse to the d-pad and the other buttons.
Requirements
- ePSXe – Any version will do
- pspDisp – v0.5 or later recommended
- A PSP with custom firmware – I am using 5.00 M33-6
- Either a wireless router or USB cable for the PSP
Set up pspDisp on your computer. If you are running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 you have to mark the winUSB driver, it’s marked by default. You need to accept all driver enforcement checks and reboot your computer.
Set up the controller in ePSXe like this:
Now download
ePSXe controls for pspDisp (1.7 KiB, 44 hits)
and place it in C:\Users\*Your account username here*\AppData\Roaming\PSPdisp\control. Or just right-click on the pspDisp icon in your system tray and chose About, then the Control tab and press the first button, and paste the file there.
Restart pspDisp and right-click the tray icon, and chose PSX under Control. Now it’s time to start pspDisp on your PSP. Go to the Games category, chose memory stick and then chose PSPdisp V0.5 (or whatever version you got).
If you gonna use the WLAN mode, you first need to go into the settings on the PSP version of pspDisp, go to page 2 by pressing R, and change the first IP to the IP of your computer (this is not your Internet IP, this is your local IP. It should be something in the theme of 192.168.0.*, usually found by running ipconfig /all in CMD). Also make sure to add both your computers and the PSPs local IP to the firewall on your router (these IPs can be found in the admin panel of your router). I found out that the port pspDisp uses is 17584. This is how my rules are set up:
The easier way would be to use USB mode. This is so easy I wont go into it too much, just put in the USB cord and chose “start using USB mode”.
If you are using WLAN mode, you can stream the video and sound to your PSP and play your game from anywhere in your house.
You should now be able to play using your PSP as controller. If you got any trouble, just comment below.
Popularity: 2%
New firefox addon in development!
Apr 14th
I am currently developing an addon for firefox for posting to your wordpress blog, directly from firefox, from any site. Here is the UI sofar.
Popularity: 2%
the proxies are up again
Apr 13th
All the .info domains should be up and running again after some minor technical problems. The Firefox plugin will require some work to get it compatible and working again.
Proxy owners
For the next version of the Firefox addon I thought adding a list of proxies to chose between. I can’t however add any proxies I want thought as the proxy needs various settings to be enabled. Therefore, if you are a proxy owner and are interested, please leave a comment.
Popularity: 2%
Easily pay for hosting with 2 min work per day
Apr 12th
Are you looking for a paid host but you know you have no money to pay for it, but you have 2 – 3 minutes of time over every day?
I started using NeoBux 1.5 years ago, and since then I have earned $80. Not much, but it is enough to pay for a static paid plan over at x10Hosting. I don’t have a paid plan at x10, but I do share the price of an VPS3 from x10 with a friend, which results in the same price as the smallest paid plan. On the VPS I host my proxies, which I earn some ~$15 – $18/month in ad-revenue. So I invest 2 – 3 minutes everyday in NeoBux and I earn around $15 every month on the proxies. It’s not a fortune, but hey, it’s still $180/year…
NeoBux isn’t a scam. It just takes some time. And you wont earn a lot. I earn enough to pay for the VPS every month. If I would have more referrals I would of course earn more. Right now I have 2 and a ½ active referrals (½ because one is new). I used to have some more, but they got bored.
The key to success is to have referrals. Lots of them. And then I mean direct referrals. It’s therefore I am writing this post, to gain referrals. And to help you find an alternate income 
. So watch the payment proof video down below, and join NeoBux at this link.
Also, here are my current referral stats, as you can see not all are active but I earn moneh anyway
Popularity: 3%
Install Flash in Firefox without having Administrator Access
Apr 6th
Have you ever been in a library or Internet café that had IE but no flash, but you need flash to finish whatever you need to do? I were in that situation today, and I found a fix. If you manage to install Firefox this is gonna work. When trying to install flash from Firefox it will tell you it needs admin access and cancels. Here is how to bypass that:
- Download Firefox to a folder you have access to
- Try to install Firefox in the same folder, if this succeeds, you can install flash too
- Download this .xpi, you might need to right-click and save-as
- Rename it to .zip and extract it
- Copy flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll to the plugins folder where you installed firefox
- You can now use flash
Popularity: 2%
Twitter Tweet Ticker – New PHP script
Apr 2nd
Originally made for CodeCanyon, but got rejected, so I am releasing it for free here.
If you have a website and a twitter account, it can be useful to show your tweets in a nice and neat way. This is what this plugin does.
You can find it here and there is an example at tutorialhou.se
Popularity: 4%
Forum added at tutorialhouse
Mar 19th
I added a forum to tutorialhouse located here. It took me a great while to install all mods correctly and set up everything as I wanted, but there you go, it works now
Popularity: 2%