solid_liq's Journal: Tuesday, June 22nd

Got my car back today. Drives fine. Initially, the left front suspension did seem a little stiff. However, it only took about five minutes for it to loosen up a little. Seems to be self-adaptive. Pretty cool. Handles better, needs two new rear tires. The place rotated my tires without charging extra for it. That was cool. The mechanic, when I spoke with him, seemed competent and honest. The guy behind the counter, however, reminded me of Brian from Main Street. A little shady. I need to remember,

BRING CAR BACK FOR INSPECTION AND RE-ALIGNMENT IN DECEMBER, FREE OF CHARGE

Another idea for Konqueror: Add option -> Print all tabs
Maybe also -> Print selected tabs

I installed another installation of Slackware 9.1 last night, bare bones. I need to download an X Server and a bunch of other crap. It turned out I could use the DVD, but I have to unplug my USB Hub before booting. The kernel on disc apparently has some problem with hot-plugging usb devices (other than, of course, root hubs). I have to re-install Lilo. The new install fucked up my lilo for some reason.

Europe forged ahead with the project Galileo (EU's GPS clone) and it is set to be operational by 2008 with 30 satellites encircling the globe in medium orbit.

Complain about Konqueror's bad method of resizing text: Specifically - Fonts overlap when font size is increased.

Kate issue: Set bookmark/clear bookmark text in context menu not set appropriately per line number. It appears to just be a bool, and does no checking to determine if the clicked-on line actually contains a bookmark or not.

Konqueror idea: context menu -> View Text
This would allow you to highlight text from an article, and have it displayed on its own. Benefits: Text can be rendered in the user's preferred font, font size, font color and background color (set in preferences). The text will also then be "printer friendly." In order to accomplish this best, the feature should respect the relative font sizes (for headings, etc) when rendering the text seperately from the source web page. This would also be a workaround, at least for now, for the problem of the text of certain web pages vertically overlapping when the font size is increased.

Konqueror idea: Highlight alternating lines of text.
This would be an accessibility feature, to make it easier to read the text for the visually impaired. Also good when drunk ;) or suffering from severe eye strain.

For Konqueror A page the has font rendering problems:
http://www.navyleague.org/sea_power/may_04_10.php
which is especially interesting because line 692 of the generated html specifically detects Konqueror as being the browser.



Today's quote:

In Boston, it is illegal to hold frog-jumping contests in nightclubs.