Sunday Morning Comics - Back to Work Edition

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Sponsored by Your Latest Economic Stimulus Program - You too can do you part. Be competitive, work for free! (wages? what wages?)
Cup O' Joe

 

Good Morning! Rise and Shine! Get that Cup O' Joe...
break out the O.J....hang out with the pooch...time to check out the Funnies!

 

Ponzi Schemes

 

 

 

The Daily Show Reviews the Bush Economic Policies

 

Stay Up on Corporate Nomenclature

 

life of a programmer

 

Pfizer has been offshore outsourcing advanced Research and Development jobs for some time and recently closed their Ann Arbor, Michigan Research Facility. Even worse, the CEO calls this not a firing in mass for cheap labor but a transformation (may he transform the company into shit thank you!) One person wrote a song about it:

Pfizer Transformation Gun

 

Cagle is now maintaining a great site for political cartoons with RSS feeds to numerous cartoonists.

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Just an FYI

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Whatever you have posted here keeps crashing my Firefox on my Linux machine. Doesn't seem to be a problem on the Mac.

FF/Linux Flash Crash info

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I just ran this post on Fedora 10, 64 bit FF 3.xx (whatever the latest is) and it ran fine.

On Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron, i386 - 32bit) plus FF 3.05 it crashed.

I use addons: noscript, adblock, better privacy and on any cookies I manually only allow certain domains and have most as session cookies.

(hey, ya all, don't do this at home, it blocks any ad revenue, ya know that 0.00001 cents I get for maintaining the site? ;))

So, here's what I did to fix it:

1. in the terminal, Ubuntu 8.04:

$sudo vi /usr/bin/firefox-3.0

I then added the line:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

I put this in after the line in the firefox-3.0 script (that you are editing):

DROPPED-abandoned

I suspect strongly it's the XTERM interaction with flash that is causing the issue for I have even stronger security in Fedora 10 (abet I had to do some funky changes to get flash to work at all) and it worked like a charm and I block a hell of a lot of scripting.

if that doesn't work try turning off visual effects in system->preferences->appearance

if that doesn't work:

$sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

you might check your settings, like 24 bit depth, no composite.

If you're on 64 bits maybe there is a library issue or something like flash needs 32 bit libs somewhere.

Let me know if this works.

(I think there is also a "firefox" script there which maps any betas which if you do not have firefox-3.0 you might be able to edit also).