Microsoft’s bing search just went live. Below is the XML you need to create a OpenSearch format based Firefox add-on to include bing in Firefox’s list of search engines: <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"> <ShortName>bing</ShortName> <Description>bing search</Description> <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding> <Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">http://www.bing.com/favicon.ico</Image> <Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.bing.com/search?q={searchTerms}"></Url> <moz:SearchForm>http://www.bing.com/</moz:SearchForm> </OpenSearchDescription> Create a file with the above contents (make sure [...]
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If you see the message tDOM wasn’t compiled for multithreading on doing “package require tdom“, the problem is related to the TCL implementation being multi-threaded while the version of tdom library that is being loaded was built without multi-threading support. The fix is to install a version of tdom with multi-threading support. Run “teacup install [...]
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Just a note to myself…C functions, when called, push parameters on the stack from right to left.
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New quote for the day… Ignore Sunk Costs From Seth Godin’s excellent blog.
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Microsoft Windows Desktop Search is a decent tool to index all your files and emails and search them. Unfortunately the user interface is too minimal lacking even a help menu that allows you check on syntax etc. So here below is some info on the advance search syntax that you can use with Microsoft Windows [...]
Another quote on a bumper sticker that I saw as I was driving home… If ignorance is bliss, then how come more people aren’t happy? Hmmm…
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It’s “OK” to stand on the shoulders of giants, just don’t shit on their heads. Hilarious…from this discussion on Reddit. Wolfram Alpha seems pretty impressive too…
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For some reason, a new filter that I added to my list of filters in Thunderbird was not getting applied (Thunderbird version 3.0 Beta 2) and I noticed that one of the buttons on the “Message Filters” dialog was a “Filter Log” button. So I went ahead and clicked that hoping I could seem some [...]
