I’ve been using RoboForm2Go for a while now – started using it back when it was still called Pass2Go. I like it, it’s a decent program and works fairly well. I like how it’s data is organized and it’s a few steps ahead stuff like KeePass (though KeePass does seem to be catching up).
I did notice a problem with RoboForm’s Firefox XPI toolbar plugin however, in that when you had a “minimalistic” window open (such as view source, or a JavaScript popup that had no toolbars specified), it would still attach the RoboForm toolbar to it at the bottom, usually hiding any horizontal scroll bar the window had. Now it’s not such a big deal to just click the little close box on the toolbar so I could use the scrollbar, but it is still very annoying since I tend to use the “view source” feature quite a bit. I also know that this is very much a bug in their program or adapter because I have other toolbars in Firefox which do not exhibit this same behaviour.
So I figured I’d be nice and bug-report the problem for them to ensure they were aware of it. I was somewhat surprised however with how their support staff (William, or so he decided to call himself since his Indian name is probably not “customer friendly” or something) has decided to handle it.
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I’m sorry to say, but it’s true. The current state of most of the potentially great Linux distributions is disgusting. I don’t even know if the maintainers of the distributions are aware that they have a problem or not, but they do – and it’s a big one.
I’ve been using Linux for many, many years and I have used quite a few of the various distributions of Linux available over those years and have never been happy with any of them. I started off using Slackware about 9 years ago and just didn’t know enough about Linux back then to be aware of how much of a mess that installation was – but it was bad. After a while of upgrading the system manually (packages referred to grabbing the .tar.gz manually and reading up on how to configure and make the entire thing yourself back then), I was quickly aware of how much crap was on the system that just didn’t need to be there.
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Today was rather interesting – got up and checked my email and sorted through the few bits of spam I enjoy getting, but one particular one caught my eye… They were trying to sell me a domain name that I already owned?!
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Ok, so it’s not so much hacking, but the only thing I learned today that I thought was kind of cool.
I’ve had “channel problems” for like the past 2 years almost (and never got off my ass to call up about it until recently) with just two channels – Showcase Action and Showcase Diva (I didn’t know about Diva until the other day when I figured I’d add it to my fav list, since I normally never watched it, but now it was free and such so why not – just stating this because Showcase Diva is a somewhat “fruity” channel, and single guys should typically not admit to watching it). It was a really odd problem since all my other channels came in fine, and I had no internet problems (I have cable internet). Those two channels would either appear to have severe packet loss, or just appear as nothing (black screen) – not even audio.
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I was fooling around with some stuff when I noticed one of the scripts I was trying to use had some hard-coded paths in it meaning I couldn’t rename it’s base directory (which really wasn’t a good name to begin with). Anyways, I thought I’d post a few simple things every PHP programmer can add to their repository of useful junk which may help them deal with using relative paths to include files in both their PHP scripts and any HTML pages that need relative source paths too.
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