Comments on: there is no spoon

By: I/O Error « adamantine

I/O Error « adamantine — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:28:09 +0000

[...] As Drac noted, I am comparatively calm about this -mostly because I didn’t lose all my stuff. Both work and personal email is in Gmail these days, so that’s fine. A gigabyte or so of work-related data is rsynced daily to a server at work, so that’s fine. Novel and associated notes are tarballed and emailed to myself on a daily basis, so that’s fine. Most everything else important is on a weekly backup, which means I’m losing precisely a week’s worth of data, given that my weekly backups go on Fridays and the crash happened Thursday evening -but nothing life-threatening. Apparently backing up really is a Good Thing. [...]

By: drac

drac — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:53:24 +0000

This just _has_ to be something interfering with the rendering… but what?! Aargh. The suspense is killing me. Quite apart from that, I’ve never had this problem. Not even once.

Hard disk crash? You sound remarkably unperturbed about it.

By: Tz

Tz — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:55:32 +0000

Hah. New developments. One hard disk crash and reinstall later, I’m back on FF 1.5.0.8 and minus Greasemonkey entirely.

THE LINKY PROBLEMS ARE DIFFERENT NOW.

The only links that don’t work are the two that break across multiple lines, namely:

studied the phenomenon of missing
spoons.

and

murder of the ex-Russian
spy.

In each case, I can get the link if I mouseover the last word, which is at the beginning of the second line (”spoons” or “spy”) but not for the rest of the linked phrase.

By: The Lair » is this thing on?

The Lair » is this thing on? — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:20:49 +0000

[...] It appears that gremlins have once again taken over the blog. Since I couldn’t figure out a prosaic explanation for why some people get linky problems I decided to go on an upgrading spree instead. [...]

By: chickenbutt

chickenbutt — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:58:19 +0000

Interestingly enough, i dont have this problem on the farm machine. The most notable difference between the firefox install at the farm and home is that i dont have any extensions installed in the farm version except for color zilla

By: drac

drac — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:10:30 +0000

OMGWTF People! More information?! Does this happen on the same links each time? Different links? Does it occur each time you refresh the page or what?

I cannot see it. Dayum

By: Chickenbutt

Chickenbutt — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:06:25 +0000

oh you guys have the same problem too? i thought it was my firefox playing up. Drac : sorry dear, it aint working in mine too

By: drac

drac — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:23:01 +0000

Meh. I is officially teh mystified. I’ve tried loading the page on multiple machines; multiple browsers and it still WFM.

Greasemonkey and a misbehaving script?

Opera, FF (both 1.5 and 2.0), IE and Konqui. Heck, I even tried Lynx. They all worky.

By: sage

sage — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:56:48 +0000

okay, the “studied the phenomenon of missing spoons” is a different colour, but on rollover it isn’t clickable. it is clickable only between on “studied t”.

same thing with “the murder of the ex-Russian spy”, where the whole thing is unclickable.

and for some further, odder and more mysterious reasons, the unclickable parts don’t like to get highlighted. making it very difficult to cop-paste the text.

Tz. sees it too. i am not making this shit up. psscht. and you never believe what i say.

By: Tz.

Tz. — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:47:50 +0000

It’s true! Your links do go buggery. I seen ‘em do this.