Usability

All posts tagged Usability

TODO – host all scripts.

TODO – this whole thing needs to be redone!

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(on Wikipedia)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/
https://www.greasespot.net/

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With a default install of Lubuntu 14.04, going back to various earlier versions, I had an excellent console resolution.

Upgrading to the proprietary video drivers destroyed that feature, dropping it to.. 80×24 or so. This isn’t just terrible, it’s terribad on a widescreen. Because of the resolution switch, going from X windows to the console is extra-slow, which made me never want to use it.

These are some notes when I was trying to solve this problem. I eventually gave up, and just used the open source video drivers.

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WordPress has a “feature” where it takes what you write, disregards your wishes and does whatever it wants with it.

It mangles things like quotes and hyphens. This really irritates me, but I was never pissed off at the right moment to want to look into fixing it.

However, WordPress version 3.6 decided to use Ellipses (…) instead of three dots (…) which I found while in the right mood. If there were a WordPress developer handy, there would be a WordPress developer with their hands pulled off.

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