Occasional Thoughts

Suddenly my XServer startet to crash each time I started to play any video on my Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon installation (there will be a more detailed update on the real installation after my evaluation soon). A backtrace shows that this was caused by the ATI fglrx driver (installed version: 8.443).

Once again stumbled over this stupid proxy settings of thunderbird

First I suspected my mail server to be down.

All of a sudden I was no longer able to download emails - from any account, from any server - just with Thunderbird while KMail was working perfectly. Even sending emails is no longer working.

Well, unlike Konqueror where a similar checkbox uses the proxy server only for reasonable protocols, like FTP and HTTPS, in Thunderbird it is also used for SOCKS and your HTTP proxy most probably does not understand SOCKS like most pure HTTP proxies.

So, in case you can't connect to any Mail server, check if this checkbox is enabled.

Web developers often face a big problem: HTML pages look different on different browsers and even different on the same browser running on different operating systems. Crossbrowser testing is not only time consuming, it is even expensive as you need at least a license for VMware plus licenses for all the operating systems. And testing under MacOS is a different story. In addition you have to maintain this environment.

In case you just need to test the layout there is a cheap solution:Browsershots.org. Simply enter the URL to your page, select the browsers you wish get screenshots, when they display your site and have some patience until all screenshot are created.