today is just full of fail
Jun. 16th, 2011 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aryanhwyAnd it's not even noon.
There's a result I wrote about back in July or August or September that I want to go back and find because I need more details, and cannot reconstruct them. There's a reason I've saved all the dialogical emails Jesse and I have exchanged, precisely so that when this arises I can go and search over them and find either the answer or enough info to be able to recreate the example or proof. But what do I find? Oh, yeah, TB has removed the search "body" function, so so much for that idea. I recall that I'd run into this as soon as that feature was removed, a version or two ago, but I couldn't remember if I'd submitted a bug report or not.
Went to redhat's bugzilla; not listed there. Went to mozilla's; they won't let me log in any more with my old password, I have to request a new one; they'll send me an email with a link I can go to to change my password. Well, it's coming from a foreign address, which means with Joel's greylisting, it'll take an hour or so to arrive. Finally arrives, I check, no, I haven't submitted it before. Start writing it up...
Decide it would be nice to include a screenshot of the menu showing exactly where the option used to be. Oh, it's a dropdown menu. You can't use prtscr when a dropdown menu is dropped-down. Joel says it's possible to take screenshots of menus via gimp, so fire up gimp to try to find where/in which menu that facility is. Open gimp's help, hoping to search for "printscreen" or "print screen" or "prtscr". Turns out gimp's help is not searchable; or rather, it is, but only component by component (i.e., table of contents; individual chapters). So I can either manually search over all chapters, or I can go to the chapter it's likely to be in and search there. But if I already knew what chapter it was in, I would probably also already know under what menu it is, and so I wouldn't have to be searching for this information in the first place.
Gaaah! Is there anything I can do this morning that will go right? It doesn't help that this is coming on top of a pretty destroyed week already. Monday I lay down to read around 1pm and woke up three hours later. Tuesday I woke up feel pretty rotten and so didn't go out to the university, and even though I felt good enough to go grocery shopping around lunch time, I came home and slept for two hours on the couch. Yesterday, got up and headed out to the university to work, only to suddenly come over feeling really awful (light-headed, nauseated, weak-kneed, bad headache coming on very quickly -- if I didn't know better, I would've said it was the onslaught of a migraine) after only an hour and a half, so I headed home and spent the rest of the day until dinner time in bed. (Thankfully the headache let up once I was lying down, but I was still weak and wobbly and easily out of breath the entire rest of the evening).
ETA: Oh, and have I mentioned that as of a few days ago, I can no longer open PDFs in firefox? I just got a black tab when I try.
There's a result I wrote about back in July or August or September that I want to go back and find because I need more details, and cannot reconstruct them. There's a reason I've saved all the dialogical emails Jesse and I have exchanged, precisely so that when this arises I can go and search over them and find either the answer or enough info to be able to recreate the example or proof. But what do I find? Oh, yeah, TB has removed the search "body" function, so so much for that idea. I recall that I'd run into this as soon as that feature was removed, a version or two ago, but I couldn't remember if I'd submitted a bug report or not.
Went to redhat's bugzilla; not listed there. Went to mozilla's; they won't let me log in any more with my old password, I have to request a new one; they'll send me an email with a link I can go to to change my password. Well, it's coming from a foreign address, which means with Joel's greylisting, it'll take an hour or so to arrive. Finally arrives, I check, no, I haven't submitted it before. Start writing it up...
Decide it would be nice to include a screenshot of the menu showing exactly where the option used to be. Oh, it's a dropdown menu. You can't use prtscr when a dropdown menu is dropped-down. Joel says it's possible to take screenshots of menus via gimp, so fire up gimp to try to find where/in which menu that facility is. Open gimp's help, hoping to search for "printscreen" or "print screen" or "prtscr". Turns out gimp's help is not searchable; or rather, it is, but only component by component (i.e., table of contents; individual chapters). So I can either manually search over all chapters, or I can go to the chapter it's likely to be in and search there. But if I already knew what chapter it was in, I would probably also already know under what menu it is, and so I wouldn't have to be searching for this information in the first place.
Gaaah! Is there anything I can do this morning that will go right? It doesn't help that this is coming on top of a pretty destroyed week already. Monday I lay down to read around 1pm and woke up three hours later. Tuesday I woke up feel pretty rotten and so didn't go out to the university, and even though I felt good enough to go grocery shopping around lunch time, I came home and slept for two hours on the couch. Yesterday, got up and headed out to the university to work, only to suddenly come over feeling really awful (light-headed, nauseated, weak-kneed, bad headache coming on very quickly -- if I didn't know better, I would've said it was the onslaught of a migraine) after only an hour and a half, so I headed home and spent the rest of the day until dinner time in bed. (Thankfully the headache let up once I was lying down, but I was still weak and wobbly and easily out of breath the entire rest of the evening).
ETA: Oh, and have I mentioned that as of a few days ago, I can no longer open PDFs in firefox? I just got a black tab when I try.
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Date: 2011-06-16 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-16 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-16 01:57 pm (UTC)(I'm running Thunderbird on Windows 7, so of course the behavior is totally different-- the "body" option is a button that appears after you "filter" a folder, for instance.)
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Date: 2011-06-16 02:00 pm (UTC)I'm running TB on linux, and I'm not even sure where to find the "filter" option. I just found "run filters on folder" under tools, so I clicked that, and absolutely nothing happened.