Archive for June, 2024

Simon Says and use Mojeek

June 26th, 2024 – 4:16 am
Tagged as: History notes

The Simon Says blog has been online for a long time. Here is an entry from 2008 about ripping CDs on a Mac.  In a way this site shows what is wrong with the web.  Twenty years ago blogs and websites had favorites and blog rolls.  Through this people discovered many great sites.  Around 2012 [...]

Shrink Firefox Interface

June 24th, 2024 – 5:08 am
Tagged as: Computing Notes

Use about:config –> browser.uidensity . browser.uidensity is set to 0 by default.  Changer the  value to 1 and it takes immediate effect.

VirtualBox Disk Conversion

June 10th, 2024 – 1:58 am
Tagged as: Computing Notes

To convert a dynamic VirtualBox disk to a Fixed disk, run the following command: vboxmanage clonemedium disk /path/disk.vdi /path/newdisk.vdi -variant Fixed using –variant Standard would create a dynamic disk.  Then open the virtual machine and remove the existing disk and attach the new disk.  Then use the media manager to delete the unused media. Use [...]

Browser Extensions

June 10th, 2024 – 1:47 am
Tagged as: Computing Notes

Chromium: Joplin Web Clipper, Zotero Connector, floccus bookmarks sync, uBlock Origin, Quick Javascript Switcher, SingleFile, uMatrix Firefox: SingleFile, Copy PlainText, floccus bookmarks sync, Joplin Web Clipper, Passman, Search by Image, Tree Style Tab, uMatrix, Undo Close Tab, Web Archives