Today, like any other day, I started Firefo^WIceweasel. I mapped it at the bottom of my window stack. It promptly raised itself. I closed everything and tried opening a new homepage. Nope, that's fine. I tried again with two tabs saved. It raised itself again.

I have been watching variations of this bug regress for eight years now and I am tired of it. So I installed Conkeror. After a good three-year run of being able to sit down at someone else's random PC and say, "hey, a web browser that nearly works as well as mine" (since it is, you know, the same one), I look forward to being utterly fed up with how primitive the rest of the world is again. And what are we in this for, if not that?

I just wasted half an hour (mostly finding a dead motherboard and bending wire) making one of these:

I then threw out the cap to my USB storage device. Why doesn’t anybody sell them? Why are the holes for your keyring always on the part you use (thus weighing it down, particularly if it's sticking out of the front of a tower) and not the part that comes off? It's not easy to unplug by accident (I did squeeze it a bit removing some of the metal).

I think I’m just not looking in the right place. I can’t be the first person to have been annoyed with this. Lazyweb, please tell me where to go.

(Yes, the only thing I use it for is my SSH key.)

Dear Lazyweb,

Does anyone know how to remap Caps Lock to Control in Windows for a specific keymap (e.g. Dvorak) only? The standard thing appears to be hardware-level.

You know how every once in a while you get some moron trolling for unsecured accounts over SSH and your logs get spammed with “invalid user” for every single username in their dictionary?

I finally figured out what to do about it. They tend to have their own SSH port open. So as soon as anyone tries to log in with an invalid username, I just NAT all further connection attempts back to them. tail -f + a few lines of shell = Ahhhhhhh. Mine is an evil laugh.

Actually, what really bothers me about the GTK+ file dialogs is having to click “Browse for other folders” every single time I open the one for saving. (Last I looked this up, the only solution was to patch GTK+.)

My understanding of all this touchy-feely user-interface stuff is that humans are supposed to be oriented spatially (classic Finder) or by breadcrumbs (Netscape). A tiny little dropdown with a text label of just the current directory's name (not even a full path) gives me no idea whatsoever “where” I am. I constantly save things in the wrong directory from Firefox.

While basename $PWD is all the directory information I put in my shell prompt, I can do considerably more from there, and new shells don’t tend to pop up two hours later when you forgot where you cd’d to last time. What is acceptable for me there is not acceptable for a normal user here. I really don’t get what they were thinking.