Max Zorin - Character

"Max Zorin is a former KGB agent and industrialist from the 1985 film A View to a Kill. He is the primary villain and is played by actor Christopher Walken."

Max Zorin in A View To A Kill (1985)

This came up in conversation.  I had no idea there was a Zorin character. 

Wonder if 'Zorin' is the Russian-Irish developers' (yes, two of them - bros) real surname, or if it was selected from the James Bond film, book or whatever.

Years since I've seen James Bond movies.  Don't even remember one.

Just remember a smug guy I didn't like. 

I think I always wanted the villains to win.  lol

Like Walken (probably because he played a villain) ... but I can't remember which film of his I would have seen.

Zorin - Love/Hate Thing Happening

The problems I've had (which may not be Zorin & could be due to other reasons):

• frequent Firefox crashing - lots of open windows & playing YouTube videos may have something to do with it?

• display - major f*ck-up - the open windows 'bleed' into one another and there's almost a jigsaw effect until the buggy thing is 'broken' with multiples of back and forth clicking to switch windows; F5 / reload or hanging on the scroll button like crazy; or 

• ... a really weird option that works best:  print-screen button (yes, lots of unwanted screen capture going on ... lol), but it 'breaks' whatever is stuffing up display when switching screens.

• Discovered the print-screen remedy, as I was going to capture an image of the screen to complain to all about the garbled mess I get.

That's it for the problem side of things.

Things I'd like:

Wider scroll bar thingy, right hand side, blue.  I'm not into precision anything.  Big is good for me (but not too bit, as I find that annoying also ... lol).

Ummmm ... that would have to be a Blogger ask, I think. Maybe even Modzilla. But not Zorin. Got confused about where I was re the scroll bar, thinking I'm in Zorin when it's a Blogger scroll bar.

No, change again.  The notes program scrollbar is on the thin side like the Blogger scrollbar.  What's with narrow, minuscule scrollbars, guys? I'm basically lazy and don't like straining my hand being precise. 

Right click functionality re delete, rename etc, when I'm entering folders from avenues other than the documents option or whatever.

Eg.  If I'm about to load a photo from my computer onto somewhere else and notice that the name of the file isn't one I'm happy with and want to change, I'd like to be able to right-click and change the name, delete or move the file (as and when I see the necessity), rather than having to stop what I'm doing and access that function via the documents icon etc.

The wants aren't a huge deal seeing this is freebie software, but the wants would make it better (for me).

[ Not proof reading this - got to run.  lol ]

Cookie Consent - Script - Widget

Cookie Consent

Free and open source

 

 https://silktide.com/tools/cookie-consent/

The above cookie consent script gadget results worked when pasted into template of another blog I have happening ...

Expected this to have options, such as 'not now', 'dismiss' (or whatever), but it only has a 'yes' button.

Oh, well.  At least it's a notice.

The widget isn't taking in *this* blog template.  

Tried again and maybe wasted half an hour of fiddling around.

I'll have to make do with the lame notice I've got set up above.

Not sure what to do in long-term.  I'm not really keen to devote any more time to extensive cookie consent widget research. 

Search Box Widget - Blogger

"Add 6 Stylish Custom Search Boxes To Blogger"

http://helplogger.blogspot.com/2014/10/6-custom-search-boxes--for-blogger.html

Found this useful, as the 'in-house' Blogger search widget wasn't working for me (on another blog I have set up).

Now it works.  ;)

Zorin OS - Buggy / 'Sticking' - While Switching Between Open Windows

Zorin's driving me nuts.

Don't know if it's something to do with disabling Javascript or not, but I've developed some kind of buggy thing where,  switching screens, the OS just kind of 'sticks' and I'm left clicking various open windows to get a window up.

Also need to then fiddle with scrolling to 'straighten' out the result, that shows an overlap of contents from other open windows, in the selected window.

Hoping I won't have to re-install the OS, because I didn't back up.  I can save my stuff, but the system settings are going to get screwed up.

Not happy.

PS 

Think Zorin's scroll bar size is a bit small.  Precision is an effort for me.  A wider button would have been better, I think.

Blogger - Back Up Templates & Posts

Thought I'd better update my back-ups of templates & posts.

Been so long, I couldn't remember how.

Instructions:

POSTS

 

"Export your blog

When you export your blog, you get an .xml file of the posts and comments. After you export it, you'll still see it on your dashboard.

1. Sign in to blogger.com.
2. Click the name of the blog you want to export.
3. On the left side of the page, click Settings > Other.
4. In the "Blog tools" section, click Export blog > Download blog."

TEMPLATE

"Tip: If you want to save a copy of your blog's template, go to the "Template" tab and click Backup/restore."

SOURCE
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/97416?hl=en


For downloading templates:

After you select the 'Templates' tag:

> top right-hand corner of screen is a 'back-up/restore' button.
> Select that.
> Save file to hard disk.

IMPORT BLOG instructions are on the same link (above).

Update Firefox

Exploit in Firefox.
Searches for sensitive documents & uploads them to server in Ukraine.

Couldn't remember how to update & didn't know whether I needed to, or if it was done with the auto updates that were processed over the last few hours.

Found this. Opted for line command.

But I'm not sure it's done the trick, as I still have my bookmarks.

Update Firefox on Ubuntu / Debian Linux

You can use APT package handling utility i.e. apt-get command. You can also use a GUI package tool called Update Manager:

Just type the following two commands at terminal:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install firefox

You can also use GUI tool:

Click on

System >
Administration >
Update Manger > 

Click on Check button see for updates

SOURCE
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/upgrade-firefox-on-linux/

Cookies Plug-in

Cookies notification plug-in script has been pasted to Blogger template, but it is *not* appearing on screen.

Doing my head in.

Might have something to do with 'save' seemingly not taking - ie when 'save' selected nothing happens (as in no 'saved' notification & option to view update), although plug-in *has* been saved to template.

Same plug-in works on other templates.

Don't know what's going on there.  Might have to leave it for time being.