September 15, 2006
Google + TOR = fun new searches! ::
tech — tagged anonymous, google, tech, TOR, totally stumped and weird
10:19 am
Google when using TOR
Originally uploaded by gjs.
Yes, fun new searches that don’t make any sense, unless you understand German, Italian or French. There are work-arounds, of course, but the whole world of Web anonymization does take some getting used to. Here’s my favorite passage from the Wiki FAQ:
If you really want to see Google in English you can click the link [on the search results page] that provides that. But we consider this a feature with Tor, not a bug—the Internet is not flat, and it in fact does look different depending on where you are. This feature reminds people of this fact.
So there.
July 14, 2005
Dashboard widgets broken in OS X 10.4.2 ::
tech — tagged dashboard, os x, tech, totally stumped and widgets
10:18 am
Hey, has anyone out there upgraded to OS X 10.4.2 and found their dashboard widgets are broken after the upgrade? Symptoms are: when I go into the Dashboard, the screen is empty, and when I try to drag a widget to the dashboard the widget disappears immediately. Clicking on the “manage widgets” button gets no response.
Send email to gregATpageswithin.com with your suggestions. Thanks.
Update: based on the comments in this discussion thread, I moved all the widgets in the /Library/Widgets/ directory to my ~/Library/Widgets/ directory. This solved the problem—now all the widgets appear to be working properly. However, the solution is not ideal, since my account is now the only one with access to the default widgets included with Tiger. If I come up with a more comprehensive solution to the problem, I will certainly post it here.
