Apple recently released Safari 4 beta for the Mac, and I think it’s actually pretty good. What especially trigged my interest was it’s new tab system, and most of all the sheer speed of this thing. Loading and rendering pages is suspiciously fast. The Norwegian online IT magazine seems to agree with me on this. (originally from Maximum PC)
However, there is always some wrinkles.
Wrinkle number one was the “Top sites” functionality. It is really slow, and bogs down the browser experience. Luckily, it’s mendable. I found a great list of tips for disabling/re-enabling functionality over at Macosxtips.co.uk. To say goodbye to Top Sites just enter the following in the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeTopSites -bool FALSE
The other thing was a decent flash block. I usually don’t mind sensible ads on web pages, I even find good deals that way some times. But flash ads are way to annoying, so I want to block them. Firefox has a nice plugin called Flashblock, which I have been using for quite a few years now. It blocks all flash, and gives a clickable flash symbol that will display the flash animation/video. Very useful.
I have been looking for something similar to Flashblock for Safari, but only found SafariStand which is based on blocking/allowing for specific sites… Not very useful, really – or I didn’t figure out how to set it up properly. But after some more googling I finally found ClickToFlash which does the same thing as flashblock and to top it all off is free as in freedom. Me like!
As a little reminder to self, here is how you do it – from macosoxhints.com via Bytex. If you don’t limit the size of the DMG you will apparently run into problems with Time Machine (TM) killing off your entire backup. I currently use a smallish USB disk for backup, but I would much rather have TM back up over the network, preferrably via SSH. Unfortunately, ExpanDrive does not support this officially. I am planning on giving it a try over ordinary sshfs in Fuse. I’ll be back with more.
I was planning a sailing trip from Holland to Norway, and discovered this in the Kiel canal 
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However subtle, it must still count as a rickroll. The actual rolling is performed by inserting the response header X-Rick-Would-Never, with a content of “Run around and desert you” or “Give you up”.
How to test on Mac OS X or Linux:
oo@probo:~$ curl -s –head http://www.vg.no | grep X-Rick
X-Rick-Would-Never: Run around and desert you
oo@probo:~$ curl -s –head http://www.vg.no | grep X-Rick
X-Rick-Would-Never: Give you up
Kind of hilarious, imagine all the hundreds of thousands of people being rickrolled every single day!
My friend ez tipped me off about acerfand, which effectively silences the very annoying fans on the aa1. Just follw the instructions in the README file and you are good to go!
Basic fan control for the Acer Aspire One
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Rachel Greenham and others, 2008. See http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=300&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a for details.
In particular, acer_ec.pl is not my own work. 
Simple install:
1: Download acerfand and acer_ec.pl from this folder into /usr/local/bin. Ensure they're executable.
2: Add "/usr/local/bin/acerfand" into your /etc/rc.local file.
3: Reboot. Or just run acerfand to start it immediately.
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Rachel
P.S. The mail-notification .deb is prebuilt for ubuntu with SSL support enabled, unlike the one in the Ubuntu repository.
