The recent release of Firefox 57 is pretty nice in many ways, but the loss of certain extensions is probably going to keep my primary browser from upgrading until they’re updated or suitable replacements are found.
Continue reading post "Firefox 57 and Tab Groups: downgrading to ESR for now"Toby's Log page 73
Rsync incremental snapshots
I have been using rsync for backup and other things for a long time. It has a link-dest option that allows doing incremental snapshots similar to Time Machine on Macs.
Database inheritance: Postgres?
I’ve been unhappy with the inheritance provided by PHP ORM’s I’ve looked at. In looking for something better, I discovered that Postgres has built in inheritance, because it is an object-relational database.
Continue reading post "Database inheritance: Postgres?"Not sure if it was a recent Mac security update or a change with macports, but my local apache server broke and is requiring quite a bit of work to get it functional again.
I voted for the first time at my new address.
Continue reading post "#1656"Blah. It now gets dark before I get off work. Thanks daylight savings time, or rather normal time.
Continue reading post "#1653"I helped my dad install a water heater and washtub faucet today. Relatively easy project with three of us there.
While working on my site’s error pages, I became aware of the #save418 kerfuffle.
Continue reading post "#1644"Got my washer working not long after my post about it stopping working.
Continue reading post "#1640"Ideas: regions vote for governing state
Each state would be close to sovereign, with general freedom to create and enforce laws, choose and operate economic systems, run military organizations, etc. States would start as they are now, as geographic areas.
Each state would be divided into regions, such as the current counties, though preferably equal in size. Each region would have a nationally prescribed method of voting to switch to governing of another state.
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