Casper's Life

Not really, some one reported 9 reasons why not to upgrade to Firefox 2 , and already I've been forced to switch back to 1.5.0.7 which seams to be the best alternative if you want to have a stable experience while surfing the web. My expirence was not a happy one, during the 2 days, where I tried to use FF2 I had random halts, crashes etc. going back to FF 1.5.0.7 (download link) solved the issue for me, and it might do the same for you. On OSX I most saw crashes caused by ' __spin_lock ' which is a indication that it's a dead-lock - what is causing it I don't know but it's nasty. So in my world FF2 was not worth the wait, it way to unstable, one can only speculate about why they released it, it could be that the reason was the IE7 was release earlier...... Not that I would use it anyway as it does not really run on OSX:-)

Actually I saw this last week, but I just like the comment to it; have a look - one could also start to wonder what the world is coming to. What will the next thing be?

If you're in the same situation as I am - got a hot MacBook (Pro), which is not really a laptop (excpet on very cold days). Well someone found a 'kind of' solution, there is a write up on MacRumors forum how to change a few things to get the fans to kick in earlier. Some people say it works, some don't.... Update - 10 Oct. There is a bit more going on; there is a discussion going on, on the Official Apple Forums , and here on Digg is another one. I've written a small script which sets the fans to automatic mode, and minimum and safe speed to 2000 rpm. #!/bin/bash sudo ./smc -k "FS! " -w 0000 sudo ./smc -k "F0Mn" -w 1f40 sudo ./smc -k "F0Sf" -w 1f40 sudo ./smc -k "F1Mn" -w 1f40 sudo ./smc -k "F1Sf" -w 1f40 You still need to get smc from for example here Update - 16 Oct. There are now two GUI tools which can do the same as the smc tool. Fan Control which is a daemon controled by via prefrences, and smcFanControl whi...

Ok, it's now official autumn . I normally do not really complain about the weather (except for the normal; "oh it's raining", or "shitty weater yesterday, spend my whole sunday on the sofa with hangovers"). But it is now so "cold" that I'm starting to think about finding my winter gloves, and that means that I'm not having fun riding to work in the mornings.... Ok, it could be worse, but I still do not enjoy it!!

Due to the ./ effect I rand accross this review of the upcoming installment of IE - next version will be the 7'th; IE7 in toolbar mayhem . Actually even though it's quite funny it didn't make me laugh as it is quite sad that it's just such a mess. I have to admit that I normally ignore everything which have to do with IE as I've been using Firefox /Mozilla for years; first on Windows, then on Linux, and now on OSX, and I don't see any reason why I should ever again use a Microsoft powered computer - except when there are exceptions to the rule.... If you're a IE user go and get your self a copy of Firefox - you will be a happier person:-)