They're breaking at your door.

[reddragdiva]

Friday night was the eastlondongoths meet at the Prospect of Whitby in Wapping. Present were myself, arkady, valkyriekaren, mr_eleganza, latexiron, kjersti, gothbabe, squiddity, hairyears and _whitenoise. The pub is small and cramped and all the other patrons must be killed, but the beer is unadulterated and the food is good and huge. On the way home hairyears told us appalling tales of how to set fire to bike thieves when you only meant to zap them across the bollocks. "Spark plug voltages teach bike thieves new respect." We also saw greap on the train.

Yesterday was spent with the lovely redcountess and Bright Young Things, apparently a movie about Slimelight in the 1930s.

I also spent some quality time with my lovely new FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5 install. The native FreeBSD Firefox is crashing like a maniac, which is supposed to be one of those things that Never Happens. So I decided to try the Linux binaries of Thunderbird 0.8 and Firefox 1.0PR instead. So I installed linux_base-8 (a pile of Red Hat RPMs). And then linux-gnomelibs. And then linux-gtk2, and linux-gtk as well just in case. And then linux-atk. And then linux-pango. And then linux-glib2. And then linux-fontconfig. Then Thunderbird started. Then I fixed a bug in linux-pango by hand. (The bug's only been waiting since June; that you won't be able to run any recent Linux GNOME binaries without it being fixed certainly doesn't mean it's needed for 5.3-RELEASE.) Then the Firefox installer would run. Linux Firefox has been stable, except that it reliably crashes whenever you hit 'preview' when posting to LiveJournal; this entry was posted with Mozilla 1.7.2 for FreeBSD. Possibly it's time to get a Macintosh.

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I've not bothered with installers for the Mozilla/Firefox world for ages - much less hassle to use the tarball. Most of the (few) Firefox 1.0PR crashes I've seen on my Linux box have been opening the popup for print media front pages on news.bbc.

[reddragdiva]

Mm. Something in the popup mechanism goes *sproing*.

I'd be a bit happier if the Talkback would actually send the crash dumps.

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

It's always time to get a Macintosh. Check out the iMac G5, not that I can afford one.

Also, while I wouldn't have bothered to start reading other people's LiveJournals without Sage, iJournal for Mac makes posting to LJ just too easy.

[stevenothing.livejournal.com]

My FireFox has been crashing like crazy of late. Not sure if this is down to its being from the Debian experimental distro, or something more insidious. Annoying, all the same.

FBSD/Firefox

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Any time I leave a page that has flash in it, boom! Firefox just up and disappears.

[wednesday]

If you can score educational discount, a combo drive model eMac with 512MB RAM in (this works out cheaper than buying an extra 256MB later on, perversely) is £563 with VAT from the Apple Store, and worth every penny. An extra twenty quid and a firmware flash lets you dual-head the beast. I'd love an iMac G5 myself, but the value for money on the eMac is incredible.

[reddragdiva]

I'm thinking in terms of the value for money of the two new boxes being almost unbeatable - £10 petrol money for the pair ;-)

I dunno. I have a moral objection to paying money for computing hardware. I think in terms of it being something employers are supposed to provide.