The LinkSys Wireless Manager is by far the worst wireless Manager I’ve ever used. There’s no interface, I have to sit through endless cycles of waiting while it figures out what’s going on, and there’s absolutely no debugging. I can’t even tell what my signal quality is.

will post more when I figure out how to get around it in Vista.

On the plus side, it does look very nice. They’ve got all sorts of features you can’t activate, a lot of large self promotional logos, and a lot of white space where a real wireless manager would give you options.

It’s also extremely optimistic. Always giving me full bars and reporting “Excellent” connections not matter how poor the actual connection is.

September 9th, 2009 | Mental Note: Add Category | No comments

I just transferred FireFox from my Windows XP laptop to my Windows Vista desktop. I found some decent guides on the Internet, but none of them were complete.
Install Firefox onto the target computer. It should be the same version as your host computer.
Transfer your remote settings. In my case, it was

from
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\q0dmgodo.default
to
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\q0dmgodo.default

and transfer your local settings too. In my case, it was

from
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\q0dmgodo.default
to
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\q0dmgodo.default

Normally, just transferring the remote setting would be enough, but I wanted to move the data in Google Gears as well.

Rename the profile settings to the existing profile folders. I had to rename my folders from q0dmgodo to r6f5nkhv. If you forget to do this, you get an error message when you start FireFox saying “Firefox is already running but is not responding” because it can’t find the profile folder.

September 5th, 2009 | Mental Note: Add Category | No comments