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    • Worlds Largest Windfarm Coming to Oregon December 21, 2009
      Shared by Douglas AMERICA! FUCK YEAH! The contract has been signed for the Shepherds Flat wind farm in Oregon, which will cover 30 square miles, and is expected to generate 2 billion kilowatt hours of energy every year. That will provide 10% of the power California needs! Good to see we are finally moving forward with green technology. Independent power prod […]
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    • Why I don't (usually) use Windows December 17, 2009
      December 11th, 2pm So in late November, I cracked and bought a Vaio P11Z/B as a travel typing machine. (Half price, two year extended warranty thrown in — they were discontinuing it. What can I say?) It's a nice piece of hardware, except for the software. It came running Vista, and lumbered with Sony's usual crapware. There are also fun issues surr […]
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    • Swedish Police Arrest 12,000 Song File-Sharer December 20, 2009
      Shared by Douglas if you're going to do this, use truecrypt and use the dual logins for plausible deniability. or, you know, use Creative Commons music... While BitTorrent is far and away the most popular file-sharing protocol in use today, it is relatively rare that its users attract the attention of the police. The reasons for this are fairly straight […]
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    • YouTube HTML5-ifer For Chrome Makes YouTube A Joy To Use December 14, 2009
      Chrome extension "YouTube-HTML5-ifier" replaces the flash-based YouTube player with a HTML5 video tag - thus giving you native video playback without the need for a CPU hungry Flash plugin! The extension can't show any flash-reliant extras that a video might have, such as annotations, but it does automatically load the best quality video. Anot […]
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    • Report: The Most Active Online Are The Most Educated. December 16, 2009
      People who spend the most time online are in fact the most educated claims a recent report from Eurostat. The study, that covered households containing at least one person aged 16-74 across Europe, shows that nearly 90 % of the EU population with high formal education used the internet regularly, more than twice as much as the share of the population with lo […]
      Zee
    • YouTube Feather Is a Lighter-Weight YouTube for Netbooks, Low-Powered PCs [NetBooks] December 3, 2009
      YouTube is notorious for choking slower or underpowered computers (like netbooks), and all that video requires a lot of bandwidth. YouTube Feather is an opt-in beta that strips YouTube to the bare essentials for your underpowered PC or slow internet connection. Feather seriously strips out the unnecessary elements from YouTube, leaving you with little beyond […]
      Adam Pash
    • Method To Repair Damaged Adult Nerves Discovered December 11, 2009
      An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have discovered a promising method to regrow damaged nerves in adults. Brain and spinal-cord injuries typically leave people with permanent impairment because the injured nerve fibers (axons) cannot regrow. A study from Harvard and Carleton University, published in the December 10 issue of the journal Neuron, show […]
      kdawson
    • The World Reacts to The New Facebook December 17, 2009
      It's been a little over a week since Facebook debuted a massive revamp of its privacy settings. EFF immediately followed that release with a detailed critique, concluding that the changes were "clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before [and] will actually reduce the amount of control that users have […]
      tim
    • Photo December 16, 2009
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    • Etherpad Now Open Source December 18, 2009
      Etherpad, the tool by the company which Google bought to add to their Wave team, has now been open-sourced. “Our goal with this release” writes Aaron at the Etherpad blog “is to let the world run their own etherpad servers so that the functionality can live on even after we shut down etherpad.com.” [Via Reddit.] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Etherpad Now Ope […]
      Philipp Lenssen
    • Five last-minute gifts you can print! December 18, 2009
      No more late-night runs to the convenience store for something, anything, you can wrap. If you've got five minutes and a printer, you can create a genuinely nice gift.
      Rick Broida
    • “Do I have the right to refuse this search?” | Homeland Security Watch December 17, 2009
      Shared by Douglas ah, security theatre. It is a good show, no? These three areas on a woman, and the crotch area of men, offer the greatest opportunity to seclude weapons and contraband.   Bad guys and girls rely on the type of reluctance displayed by this screener to get weapons and drugs past the authorities.  We train cops to realize that their life depen […]
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    • The Looming Murder/Suicide of the Democratic Majority December 14, 2009
      Greg Sargent offers us a fascinating polling tidbit “A new national poll finds that fully one third of Democratic voters say that they’re ‘less likely’ to vote in 2010 if Congress doesn’t pass a public option, underscoring the possibility that dropping the provision seriously risks dampening the Dem base’s enthusiasm.” I’m sure you’ll read other progressive […]
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    • David Harvey, "Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition" December 15, 2009
      Lenin's famous question "what is to be done?" cannot be answered, to be sure, without some sense of who it is might do it where. But a global anti-capitalist movement is unlikely to emerge without some animating vision of what is to be done and why. A double blockage exists: the lack of an alternative vision prevents the formation of an opposi […]
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    • Hang on just let me wash my paws and check the locks one more time trollcat December 15, 2009
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    • I Hear Wikipedia Also Uses This December 15, 2009
      What is this madness you ask? Last week Slashdot posted a story about a recently published patent application from Microsoft that involves determining prices based on how influential you are. In other words, the people least able to do anything about it get charged the most money for a product or service. Amazing. I can only assume Microsoft published this n […]
      Christopher Wright
    • Protect yourself from COFEE with some DECAF December 16, 2009
      In response to Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE), which helps law enforcement officials grab data from password-protected or encrypted sources, two developers have created "Detect and Eliminate Computer Assisted Forensics" (DECAF), a counter intelligence tool designed to thwart the Microsoft forensic toolkit. DECA […]
      emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)
    • Why WaPo Neocons Should Not Write About Hip Hop December 4, 2009
      Unfortunately the U.S. military had already invaded Public Enemy by the time of this correction. [Washington Post]
      Jim Newell
    • Ad campaign for pro-assisted suicide group December 9, 2009
      An ad campaign for pro-assisted suicide group DignityInDeath.com features a series of park bench plaques telling stories of now-deceased people whose lives, it suggests, may not have been worth prolonging. One plaque is dedicated "to the glory of Kathleen (Kay) Mandell, who at age 32 was stricken by Lou Gehrig's disease that caused her muscles to w […]
      Lisa Katayama
    • <3 this. Here is the link:... December 9, 2009
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Archive for June, 2007

Duke Energy doesn’t support Opera

Posted by douglasawh on June 6, 2007

Duke Energy page was screwing up in Firefox so I opened IE…still screwed up…so I tried Opera. It doesn’t like Opera either. So, I think…wonder if it works on a Mac. So, I try Camino. It works…but I can’t figure out how to change the account the bill goes to. No matter, it’s the right account. But seriously….

Update: I tried in Firefox 3alpha4 on Mac and it worked…until I got to this one screen it crapped out on in another browser.  It’s the “payment activity” screen.  I bet it has something to do with cookies, since I block as many cookies as I can.  Ugh.

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