The single sounds like something out of With Teeth, as if it was some weird mix of The Hand That Feeds and Only (which means, dance away bitches !) and it’s really catchy. Sure it’s not oldschool NIN or Year Zero weirdish NIN but I still like it (and I have to admit that I really like With Teeth, not unlike most NIN fans).

Speculation is starting to run wild about whether Trent was holding out on his songs these last few years because he wasn’t happy with his contract with Interscope. Personally, I think he might be more willing to try out different things now (like Ghosts) than before and pick up old ideas because he can just release it if he feels like it and not have it been rejected by some stupid executives.

If people like it or not it’s a different story, but hey…it’s his own thing and from what we can understand from his flickr updates looks like he has more people working with him on his new stuff these days so a lot of the crappy stuff surely gets filtered out really soon (or at least influenced by those persons opinions).

As a hardcore NIN fan that I am, I can’t wait for this new album to be released and for another european tour. Please, don’t fuck up Trent.

Yes, I’m bored and kinda pissed.

Update:
That link doesn’t seem to be working right now, try this one (which doesn’t have all the pics): http://tinyurl.com/2pqdfe

However, something still annoys me a lot.

If the mouse pointer is hovering above the area where the bar is going to appear, then the option below the pointer gets automatically selected. That way, if I want to use the first result given by the awesome bar, I can’t just press the down arrow and use it. I either have to press the up arrow some times or move the mouse there, and that way the awesomeness disappears. It completely defeats the purpose.

This didn’t happen with the old bar, and it doesn’t happen with the search box. On the search box, an item only gets selected with the mouse pointer after you move the pointer.

I’ve been searching the bug tracker but I haven’t found anything similar. Can anyone confirm if this is still present on the latest builds ?

Hopefully this will get corrected before the final release, otherwise this is going to be a huge usability flaw which is sure to annoy many more users.

So after I started doing some stuff with newforms, I hit a wall. Newforms lets you generate a from from a model, and represents most of the model’s attributes in the form attributes format, except for one very important field: error_messages (or, if it does, is not yet documented).

After looking around for a while, and using a couple of tips from #django @ freenode, I came up with a solution for my problem, and since I haven’t found any exact reference to this problem anywhere else, here it is:


class myForm(ModelForm):
..def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
....super(myForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
....self.fields['field_name'].error_messages = {'required': "This field is required"}
..class Meta:
....model = myModel

(Sorry for the lack of indentation. Wordpress code tag doesn’t seem to like spaces.)

Maybe it would be a good idea in the future to specify a model attribute to contain those messages.

By the way, regarding the new laptop, I’m keeping a wiki page about it which I’ll be updating with more details later.

So, after searching for a while I found out that some of the extensions I use have beta versions which are already compatible with FF3, so I decided to give them a try. Here’s the list of extensions which are not FF3 compatible and how I managed to install them or the alternatives I’m using.

Adblock
Not compatible with FF3 but it seems kind of unmaintained anyway, so I installed AdBlockPlus instead (which seems like what everyone’s been using for some time anyway).

del.icio.us Bookmarks
According to this discussion the extension is ready but it only works over the next delicious version which has not yet been released to the public. I’ll be following the news on the delicious blog closely.

I ended up using a hack which bypasses the check for extension compatibility, but if this turns out to cause any instability I’ll use the bookmarklet.

Firebug
Had to install 1.1 beta from http://getfirebug.com/releases/.

FireFTP
Had to install the latest preview from http://fireftp.mozdev.org/developers.html.

FireGPG
Had to install the latest svn. More info on http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/?page=install&lang=en.

Gmail Manager
Supposedly there’s a FF3 compatible version on this discussion thread but this is probably just a hacked version of the regular extension and FF3 crashes on start. This is a handy extension but I don’t consider it essential so I don’t really mind not having it around for a while.

Google Gears
Doesn’t seem to be compatible with Firefox 3 yet, but I don’t really use it much these days. Maybe I’ll drop it for now. The hack I talked about before lets the extension load but I prefer to disable it for now to avoid any issues.

Google Toolbar
Doesn’t seem to work either but I only used it to check on the Pagerank so I guess I’ll drop it too.

TinyURL Creator
No compatible version available, but works with the compatibility bypass. There’s also an alternative bookmarklet.

User Agent Switcher and Web Developer
Apparently, the developer of these two extensions refused to release Firefox 3 compatible versions until the Firefox 3 final version is out, but the Firefox developers are asking for add-on creators to update their add-ons to check for any issues so the creator says he’ll be releasing a test version soon. I just hope he hurries because this is has always been one of my favorite extensions and I’m sure lots of webdevelopers rely on this extension as a part of their work. Oh and these two don’t load even with the compatibility bypass.

I had tried Tilda some months ago, but it was totally bug ridden and it didn’t respect Gnome’s HIG in terms of keyboard shortcuts (like changing tabs). After I posted this as bug report, it’s main developer seems to have liked the idea and changed it on the latest version. However there’s still one really annoying bug which, according to Tilda’s page is known:

Note: Apparently Metacity has started to not be very Tilda friendly by having focus stealing prevention on by default. Feel free to let me know if you have problems with Metacity but also let their developers know.

Right. So why does Yakuake (which is exactly the same app for KDE and has existed for a while longer) works so well with Gnome itself ?

I decided to stick with Yakuake for a while and try to get used to it. However, the stupid default keyboard shortcuts (for tab management) still annoy me and I can’t understand why it refuses to accept the same shortcuts I use in Gnome apps if i customize it that way (and no, they’re not KDE shortcuts for other actions).

One other little app I’ve been using a lot is Gnome Do. It’s just simple and perfect and eliminated most of my usage of the Deskbar Applet, which lately would be just for Tracker Live Search. However, Tracker seems to be having some problems as well. It used to work well but now it just can’t seem to find anything I want (even if the file name is all lower case and has been resting in my home directory for weeks). So that’s another app that it’s making it’s way out of my Gnome default session.

As for Glipper, it’s great to know that it was finally turned into a Gnome applet, but for some reason it keeps crashing on start. I’m using Hardy Heron, so I’m not really surprised about this.