Matt Ebert

Just a boy with a dream….of pirates and moon ships

Monthly Archives: March 2005

Flash Popups in Firefox

It was inevitable, the slimy bastards found a around having their popups blocked in Firefox. You become comfortable browsing without the popups, and then all of the sudden the world is tilted just a little. Here is a fix, for now:

To block pop-ups from plugins, open your Firefox 1.0 or 1.0.1 browser, type about:config in the address field. Right-click in the resulting config page somewhere and select New -> Interger.

Type privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins in the resulting dialog, hit OK, type 2 in the next dialog and you’re all set.

This pref can actually take three values:

* 0: open allowed
* 1: the opened windows are treated as popups, but they’re allowed to open (we limit the number of these types of popups)
* 2: the window is a popup, block it

Note: This entry is mostly for personal reference. Use it how you like.

Dukes of What????

So I know that the whole Dukes of Hazzard movie is not new news. We all knew that Jessica Simpson was playing Daisy Duke. And that Stifler and the dude from Jackass were playing Bo and Luke Duke. Nothing new there. However, I just looked to see who else was rounding out the cast:

Uncle Jessie – Willie Nelson???????
Boss Hogg – Burt Reynolds?????????

*palm -> forehead*

Will Smith must not have been available to play Roscoe P. Coltrane.

Ummmmm….so I get that they are trying to round out the cast with big names to make up for what I am sure will be a steaming pile of a storyline. But Burt and Willie?

I will not shy away from saying that I was a Dukes of Hazzard fan as a wee lad. So this is where a bit of my bitterness here comes from.

Does anyone remember Uncle Jessie trying to climb into the General Lee? That was a joke in itself, cause he had to be crowbared in through the window. Ummmm….and what does Willie weigh in at? Maybe 120 soaking wet?

And do not even get me started on the Bandit portraying Boss Hogg. Did casting completely miss the irony in his name??? Yes, I am sure that Reynolds no longer fits into the leather pants that he did 30 years ago, but cmon folks.

If they are going to remake the classics, why not remake them for the love of the genre, and not the love of the almighty dollar.

Prime example of doing it the right way: Battlestar Galactica

Nuff said.