Well, despite the market being down I still managed to make some decent calls as far as the market.
S: MESA @ $0.2506
S: HTDS @ $0.012
S: FAZ @ $23.40
My only loser that I sold today was FAZ. Lets see how the rest of the day plays.
Archive for August, 2009
Aug
30
2009
Skype + Firefox Lag Issues
A few of my friends reported Firefox running a bit laggy, most of them had recently installed Skype. It seems the Skype addon for firefox is causing a bit of lag / trouble, while I’m not a developer and cant really say for sure its a memory leak, or what causes it, I do have a fix.
Im running:
Windows XP SP 2
Firefox Version 3.5.2
Skype 4.1.0.141
I have 3.25 GB of RAM (that Windows is reading), Q6600 Processor, so there really is no reason why running just firefox should lag up this much, or with a moderate amount of tabs (none using flash) open be eating up 1+ GB of RAM.
In short, I simply went to Tools > Add-Ons, and uninstalled the Skype add-on for firefox. Restart firefox, and now with 15 tabs open on 2 windows, I’m back to 181 MB of RAM being used. While this may not be the ideal solution to everyone, this did help restore what I’d consider a normal browsing experience with considerably less lag. If you continue to have issues please feel free to post a comment, and I’ll do my best to work one on one with you to resolve the issue.
Aug
29
2009
Star Symbol On Myspace
& #9733 ; (without spaces)This is a solid star (★)
& #9734 ;This is an outlined star (☆)
Or simply copy and paste them to your profile where you would like to place them.
Aug
29
2009
Positions as of 8-29
Im no expert in the market, however sometimes friends ask me what I have positions in; heres the list.
B: MESA @ $0.2260
B: HTDS @ $0.0107
B: FAZ @ $23.735
B: DXO @ $4.66
B: LVLT @ $1.24
Guess we will see where those go. Like I tell people, I have little experience in the market, so following my portfolio is definitely at your own risk. I’m using my IRA as a way to get a better tax return and to make slightly better use of my income in learning how to guesstimate the market.
Aug
29
2009
platform_Error_bad_module_Friends_friendsUI_dll_not_loading
This is actually quite a simple fix.
For those of you looking for a simple solution to this:
Fire up my computer; go to C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\
Remove winui.gcf
In the past I removed ClientRegistry.blob & friendsUI.dll from the C:\Program Files\Steam\ folder and that sufficed. However since the original posting, it seems that has changed.
If your still having trouble, post a comment.
Aug
28
2009
Lack of Updates
Sorry for the lack of updates these days. I’ll start posting more random stuff along the way here. On the 15th of next month I will be flying to Washington DC.
Aug
04
2009
Ubuntu 9.0.4 – Installing SSHD
So after isntalling a fresh copy of Ubuntu today, I try:
r00t@r00t-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package openssh-server is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package openssh-server has no installation candidate
No big deal, lets look up how to fix this online.
After a whole 2 minutes of googling I figure out all I need to run are:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ssh-server
Done. Now fire up putty and try to connect or “ssh -p 22 localhost”.