can't use it

Normally in views you would use $this->helper(); to use a helper, and inside other view helpers, you can simply use $this->view->helper(); to access other view helpers.

This has continued for the last few weeks. Interesting… I wonder if this has anything to do with me using the Offline version too.

After updating to 10.5.7 I started to get kernel panics and the system would not start.

To fix this, restart your Mac in safe mode by pressing shift. Then launch the command line and use this to uninstall the VPN client:

sudo /usr/local/bin/vpn_uninstall

This will remove the kernel extensions which prevent the system from booting up.

I wondered why Apple decided to let go of the address bar that would fill up as a page loads, as it was an elegant UI that communicated what was happening.

Apparently this change was made to prevent users’ delusion that they had to wait until the bar completely filled up:

The big blue progress bar led to users waiting for mostly-loaded and usable pages. Removing it makes browsing effectively faster.

This sounds like how users think keyboards interaction is much faster even though they performed equally as well with mice.

Application name in Swedish.

Timestamp in Finnish.

They are coming from the locale from the originator user. Strange.

I suppose an “I don’t want any emails” button is against their business model?

I thought I had found a bug but the reason for wordpress forgetting my custom tags (metadata) was an old extension called RC custom field gui. I uninstalled it, and the problem was solved. Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything to replace it yet.

There is an incompatibility between Gnuplot and the readline library shipping with 10.5.1. The workaround is doing the configure this way:

./configure –with-readline=builtin

Then you will avoid this error:

Undefined symbols:
“_rl_forced_update_display”, referenced from:
_restore_prompt in command.o
“_rl_ding”, referenced from:
_alert in mouse.o
“_history_list”, referenced from:
_write_history_list in history.o
“_rl_complete_with_tilde_expansion”, referenced from:
_rl_complete_with_tilde_expansion$non_lazy_ptr in plot.o
ld: symbol(s) not found

Since the launch of the last update, Facebook opened up the news feed to applications as well. While this allows for greater flexibility for developers, practically what happened was, suddenly your wall is full of pointless quizzes that people fill out in their spare time.

Facebook doesn’t let you anymore control what shows up in the News Feed and what not after the update, so there is no way to get rid of the quizzes. Actually there is, somebody just wrote a Greasemonkey script for it.

Get Firefox if you don’t have it, get Greasemonkey, and install this script.

And you won’t see the posts made by applications anymore, yay!

Everytime I create a trip on Dopplr, I get the feeling that I have done something wrong, because they have the informative feedback in red.

It’s strange if they are doing this on purpose. I think it should rather be green. Here is a crude version of what I would do instead: