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I was unsatisfied with my complicated smart mount macro; one that would mount me on my flying mount if possible, and my ground mount if not.
I discovered something immensely simple that seems to work great. For example:

/cast Swift Blue Gryphon
/cast Swift Yellow Mechanostrider

You can use any mounts, as long as the flying mount is first. Of course you do get an error message when you use the macro, but it doesn’t bother me and doesn’t cause any problems.

So you’re trying to buy emblems of triumph from Usuri Brightcoin in Dalaran but can’t because people are spamming it.

Bind “interact with target” to a key, or shift+v and right click her name.
Then use this macro since you’ll probably get “That object is busy”:

/script local function buy (n,q) for i=1,100 do if n==GetMerchantItemInfo(i) then BuyMerchantItem(i,q) end end end buy("Emblem of Triumph",1000)

Also you can use a simpler one

/script BuyMerchantItem(4, 250)

Using the SunSpider 0.9 benchmark, I benchmarked many popular web browsers available today.

Note: While the benchmark is designed to give an imitation of real-world use, it isn’t real-world use. Unless the JavaScript performance is absolutely horrible, it shouldn’t make or break the browser for you. Keep in mind that SunSpider is a Safari biased benchmark (the test is from the WebKit site; WebKit is the backend of Safari).

Note: I’ll update this page with nice tables and graphs soon. Here are the links for now. Results are ordered fastest to slowest.

Apple Safari 4 public beta (528.16): 510 ms

Firefox 3.2a1pre: 661 ms

Google Chrome (1.0.154.48): 692 ms

Firefox 3.1b3: 1,142 ms

Firefox 3.0.7: 1,833 ms

Opera 9.64: 2,432 ms

Firefox 2.0.0.20: 8,665 ms

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (7.0.5730.13): 16,112 ms

I’ve recently seen some “Essential for School” ads being run by Microsoft. They’re misleading in that they imply that their $300 office suite is “essential” for education. This is not true. There is a full office suite called OpenOffice.org available for anyone to download, as well as smaller word processors like AbiWord. Both of these are completely free and capable. OpenOffice.org has features that even Microsoft doesn’t offer, like built in PDF export.

Don’t mention Wikipedia in an academic setting. There is usually immense bias that Wikipedia is essentially a pile of trash. These people very rarely know what they’re talking about. The teachers make up facts and the students jump in and bash it. Continue reading ‘Don’t mention Wikipedia in an acedemic setting’ »

I recently ran across a nice program called JKDefrag. It’s a really nice free(libre/gratis) program that defragments your hard drive quickly, easily, efficiently, and effectively. Check it out.

Note: Most people are not affected by this. On Firefox 3 and IE7 I noticed a strange behavior. This isn’t exactly a bug, but it would be wise for web browser designers to look in to. The HTTP character set headers take priority over the HTML meta http-equiv pseudo headers. Continue reading ‘Web browser character encoding priority’ »

Why does it seem like companies do not care at all about consumer-level broadband router firmware? I had a Netgear WPN824 and it had major issues constantly. I had to reset the router every 2 days or DNS would stop working, the web interface completely froze, and the wireless would create massive problems. Continue reading ‘Router Firmware’ »

Today I tried to log onto the GameSurge IRC server to get a scrim for Counter-Strike. When I logged on, however, I was greeted with a one hour G-Line (Global ban) for having an open proxy server. I have a web server but no proxy server. Continue reading ‘GameSurge proxy G-Line’ »