I just started digging into greasemonkey, a Firefox extension that lets you run your own scripts to do cool things to websites.
There's a whole bunch of cool scripts here. For example, I just installed BetterDir which beautifies auto-generated Apache directory listings.
Just another reason why Firefox rocks..
I use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer as my Web Browser, mainly because of all the cool extensions that are available.
The following is a list of the Extensions, Themes and Plugins that I am currently using. I use the the InfoLister Firefox Extension to automatically generate this to a file (updated every time Firefox restarts), and then include the content of the file using PHP (with the help of Mark's running PHP in wordpress posts plugin. The up-to-date list is handy if I want to quickly locate and install my favourite extensions on a different PC. It's also a cool example of how the open design of Firefox allows you to tie lots of things together and do cool things that the developers never thought of..
Update: I'm not running patspam.com off my own PC anymore so the automatic display of Firefox Extensions doesn't work anymore. If you want to do something similar on your website, use the following code:
$extensionsfile = "/usr/local/www/data/blog/wp-content/installed_extensions.html";
$extensionsfh = fopen($extensionsfile, 'r') or print('Sorry, could not open file!');
$extensionsdata = fread($extensionsfh, filesize($extensionsfile)) or print('Sorry, could not read file!');
fclose($extensionsfh);
echo $extensionsdata;
Some nice words about AIMTec, the company that I do sysadmin work for:
DataBasics: Cumulus Reseller Success Story: AIMTEC
Sydney June 27 2005: DataBasics, Canto distributor in Australia and South East Asia is pleased to announce that AIMTec Pty Ltd is now a Canto Cumulus Platinum Sales Partner - the highest status awarded by Canto. This comes in addition to being long term Canto Certified Systems Integrators in SE Asia and a member of the Cumulus Developer Program.
In a few days time I’ll be heading home so this is probably the last patspam for a while (until the next adventure). I was planning on being up near the North Korean border until Sunday night but things fell through after Inner Mongolia so I’m back in Beijing with a little bit of extra time to tie up all the loose ends.
The last time I wrote I was just about to go see St. Germain play yeah? I didn’t realise that St. Germain have such a jazzy sound because in addition to their one-man DJ they’re actually a 7-piece jazz band, and a damn fine one at that! The concert was awesome, I got to see some lesser-known French hip-hop artists perform and it was hilarious seeing the literally hundreds of Chinese army cadets stationed all over the venue (a lot of them on tiny little chairs in the middle of the crowd) that the government had shipped in to ensure a happy communist event. Quite a trip..
Exams went smoothly, no dramas, and I was happy with my marks (which came out a few days ago). It always seems like such an anticlimax getting results at the end of a semester, you kinda forget all the pain you’ve been through, but this time I at least remember how totally lost I was at the start of the semester and how at times I doubted whether I’d be able to pass. So I’m rapt to have gotten through!
As soon as exams were over and I’d had a big teary night out with all my classmates, I jumped on a morning flight to Urumqi (XinJiang).
