…if anybody here needs a copy.
Lynn A informs us Amazon has Hammerfall on at sale price…
by CJ | Feb 3, 2014 | Journal | 15 comments
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I had the chance to really look at the cover art and the description for Peacemaker. Oh my! An alien (or ship foreigner) in a space suit? Bren looking about to carry out an assassination himself; Cajeiri and his ship ashidi; Jago, Banichi and one other ateva; and problems in the Guild! I started my annual re-read of the Foreigner series two weeks ago and have just finished Deliverer. I wish that Precursor, Defender and Explorer were available in mobi format for Kindle, but I’ll survive. I believe it will not take me til 1 April to finish the series. Amazon sent me a notification on another book that soon they will be offering discounts on some Kindle books if you purchased the Hardbound book from them. I don’t know if this will apply to nand’ CJs books (may be publisher specific).
I was all excited that Amazon had the first three of the Chanur books for Kindle and a couple more of the Foreigner series. Off to see about Hammerfall….
Yes by golly, it is! A $1.99!
I just went to buy it and it is no longer on sale. The customer rep said they do 2hr sales. She said she couldn’t say that is why it is no longer on sale but that it is possible.
Well :poop:
I see that CJ has upgraded WordPress to the latest version. 🙂
If anyone doesn’t like that black bar across the top of their screen all the time (when you’re logged in), it’s easy to get rid of it:
1) Click on your name just above the reply box, where it says ‘Logged in as …’, to go to your profile.
2) Uncheck ‘Show Toolbar when viewing site’ and click ‘Update Profile’ at the bottom of the page.
… then no more black bar at the top of the page.
Wyvern, the WP band is pretty small and inoffensive. It seems as though half the sites on the internet are using floating bands and fly-ins, sometimes several on one site, seriously reducing the amount of screen available for productive use. (Not unlike the bad days of frames or turning on all the menus in Word 2000(?) which gave you just enough room to type, “Help!”) I would love to know what these are technically called, which I’ve managed to miss somehow. HTML5, I assume? Knowing what they’re called, I might be able to find a plugin that suppresses them. At least I could complain about them coherently to the webmasters involved!
Thank you!
HTML5 is a good thing! We won’t be needing Flash any more. 🙂 🙂 🙂 Flash at least used-to keep a connection home open, for God knows what purpose.
Thank you!
I just recompiled Firefox, upgrading to v. 11 from previously 2.0, 3.6, & 5.0. That bar used to cover the first couple lines of CJ’s topic boards, and it served no useful purpose. If I wanted to post to her genealogy board I had to get there before logging in. 🙁 Not sure if it was the WP or Firefox upgrades that shifted the content below that black bar, but I’m just as happy to be rid of it. 😉
You’re only up to FF 11?! Current version is 27.0!!! Compiling it yourself? From the kernel on up, or just the apps? What distro are you using? I’ve preferred KDE since I started using Linux in 2007 (I really miss KDE 3), KDE 4 has bulked up a bit too much now for my decade-old single-core mobos, not enough work being done on Trinity, so I’m shifting over to XFCE and LXDE desktops (which almost match KDE 3 in terms of maturity). I’m kinda gui-dependent, but I can do CLI work when I have to.
@Xheralt: (The rest of may just chat amongst yourselves.;) )
I build everything from scratch that I can; obvious exceptions Flash and Sun/Oracle Java Runtime.
I use “Paul’s Own Distribution”, aka POD, following some precedents for that style of naming, e.g. joe, “Joe’s Own Editor” and of course GNU. This is POD-v3.0rc2, and amounts to mostly a 2008-10ish version of things (kernel 2.6.34.14). It has an older version of LXDE, but for the most part I use just the bare Fluxbox window manager to support Firefox–less overhead–and the plane old CLI, command line interface.
The mantra of POD is “KISS”, or “how much function can I get with the minimum amount of #&@%”? My “daily driver” is a Pentium-///, but I make up for its (now) modest speed with more efficient, carefully crafted, software.
I use the Linux From Scratch books for guidance as to what set of package versions play well together, and any idiosyncracic options to the compile options, etc. It’s the packages’ own dependencies and prerequisites that dictate its constituent parts.
I too reuse cast-off hardware, though that now includes one i7 box (my “compiling engine”). The reason I don’t use the precompiled versions of FF or OO is that they build them “static”, which includes every library routine they use. This bloats them and causes two versions of those routines to be competing for RAM, when they ought to be sharing the system libraries. Mine do.
“plane”????????
WP uses only CSS to create that bar.
Most of the fancy animations you see on websites are created using JavaScript. One way to avoid that, is to use an add-on to block JavaScript selectively. NoScript for Firefox is pretty good. (Firefox is up to version 26 now, Paul!) Other browsers may have similar add-ons.
But if you use NoScript, then you have to decide what you want to block and what you don’t on each website, so it needs a certain amount of attention and input.
SuperStop is another good Firefox add-on to look at. It adds the keys Ctrl+Esc to stop irritating animations. It will work for many of the common animations that you see.
To get rid of ads on Firefox, Adblock Plus is excellent. You can just install it with the default settings and forget about it, and you’ll rarely ever see another ad again.
GreenWyvern, I am still looking for a free Adblock equivalent for Chrome. Any suggestions?
It seems there’s a version of Adblock Plus for Chrome as well – and for IE, Safari, and Opera.