my opera weirdness

Posted on July 15, 2011 by | 23 Comments

For several days now, myopera has stopped notifying me about comments to my own blog. It still notifies me of all other subscriptions on the blogs of others. There seems to be nothing in the forums about this so far.

Anybody else seeing this?

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23 responses to “my opera weirdness”

  1. Unknown's avatar 0x29a | July 15, 2011 at 2:07 pm | Reply

    So far I have not noticed. For a time there I was getting two duplicate emails every time someone commented.

  2. Unknown's avatar operainchicago | July 15, 2011 at 4:07 pm | Reply

    same behavior on your desktop, laptop and phone Dave?

  3. Unknown's avatar AleksOD | July 15, 2011 at 5:07 pm | Reply

    Hmm, works fine for me… :right:

  4. Unknown's avatar slackwrdave | July 15, 2011 at 6:07 pm | Reply

    For the first time in 2 days I am again seeing the correct notifications under the "news" URL, so maybe it's over. I got paranoid that I was going to miss things.

  5. Unknown's avatar slackwrdave | July 15, 2011 at 6:07 pm | Reply

    Just on a lark, maybe a password change is appropriate. Doing it now.

  6. Unknown's avatar decodedthought | July 16, 2011 at 12:07 am | Reply

    strange ! not experiencing this problem

  7. Unknown's avatar AleksOD | July 16, 2011 at 12:07 am | Reply

    That's a good idea. Randomize and sync through opera link 😉

  8. Unknown's avatar slackwrdave | July 16, 2011 at 2:07 am | Reply

    Originally posted by decodedthought:

    strange ! not experiencing this problem

    It happened for two days here. No notification of comments to my blog. I had to find out from the news stream. There were no subscription notifications.Originally posted by AleksOD:

    That's a good idea. Randomize and sync through opera link 😉

    Done done it. All my passwords are insane, like: sdg94GHdy68(dsc$fg+Wv!g7H.I keep major ones on a rotation schedule. All are kept in an encrypted file.

  9. Unknown's avatar 0x29a | July 16, 2011 at 3:07 am | Reply

    It's a fave! Just playing with the commands is fun. :up:Just remember, [ctrl]+[c] is your friend.

  10. Unknown's avatar 0x29a | July 16, 2011 at 3:07 am | Reply

    Originally posted by slackwrdave:

    All my passwords are insane, like: sdg94GHdy68(dsc$fg+Wv!g7H.

    I don't know why I read this and immediately thought of Marathon Man: "Tell me, is it safe?" I suppose I need to watch it again.I'm far too lazy to think up or remember passwords that heinous, so I use this to generate them:

    cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9/-@' | fold -w 8 | head -n 10

    Much smaller and easier to remember.

  11. Unknown's avatar slackwrdave | July 16, 2011 at 3:07 am | Reply

    The output is adorable. 😀

  12. Unknown's avatar AleksOD | July 16, 2011 at 11:07 am | Reply

    Originally posted by slackwrdave:

    I keep major ones on a rotation schedule. All are kept in an encrypted file.

    You quite a security freak then, I do the same 😉

  13. Unknown's avatar slackwrdave | July 16, 2011 at 11:07 am | Reply

    Also, for when it's hopeless, kill -9 [process number]

  14. Unknown's avatar slackwrdave | July 16, 2011 at 12:07 pm | Reply

    Originally posted by AleksOD:

    You quite a security freak then, I do the same

    They're after us! 😀 I do like good computer, password, security practices, almost just for the mental exercise and entertainment of it all.Funny story. I was in Washington DC several years ago. At that time I had a "feature phone", which is a non-smartphone that can do multiple things. After walking around the perimeter of the White House fence and taking a few pictures and transmitting them, my phone malfunctioned and locked up. It took dropping the battery out of it to get it to run again. It had never done that before or since.Coincidence, or it got hit by a "ray"? :eyes:

  15. Unknown's avatar ManiDhillon | July 16, 2011 at 10:07 pm | Reply

    I need help. I need to try a new distro, on which I can have more control. Any suggestions Dave?

  16. Unknown's avatar slackwrdave | July 16, 2011 at 11:07 pm | Reply

    Originally posted by 0x29a:

    Good news. I haven't received an email about any of the posts since my last post. Bah. I must be jinxed.

    It's the White House again. :p

  17. Unknown's avatar slackwrdave | July 16, 2011 at 11:07 pm | Reply

    Originally posted by ManiDhillon:

    I need help. I need to try a new distro, on which I can have more control. Any suggestions Dave?

    The only ones I've had real experience with within the last 10 years are: Slackware, the *buntus, and Debian.It's getting to be awhile since I ran Slackware, so I think I'm down to just the *buntus and Debian. I love them both.Arch Linux and Gentoo appeal to some people. I've never tried them, though they sound appealing.The first three years I ran Linux, I used to distro jump a lot. Then a wizard I relied on recommended that I pick just one, and really learn the mofo. That served me well for years on Slackware. Then I tried Ubuntu, loved the package manager, and never looked back. If you can run Ubuntu reasonably well, you can run Debian, and it's a little more erotic just due to its legacy. Do testing (Wheezy), or you'll forever be disappointed at how old the software is.In other words, I only know what makes me happy.–Some other observations:Some are loving Trisquel now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisquel . The maintainers seem to be serious, so it might have longevity.As much as I admire Richard Stallman and his distro gNewSense, I get the impression it is his and some other's spare-time project, and will never get very far as a result. http://www.gnewsense.org–In short, if it's not Debian or *buntu, I don't know anymore.

  18. Unknown's avatar 0x29a | July 16, 2011 at 11:07 pm | Reply

    Good news. I haven't received an email about any of the posts since my last post. Bah. I must be jinxed. :jester:

  19. Unknown's avatar ManiDhillon | July 17, 2011 at 5:07 am | Reply

    Originally posted by slackwrdave:

    In short, if it's not Debian or *buntu, I don't know anymore.

    Well then I am stuck with Ubuntu.Just tried alpha 2 of Oneric. After that again installed 11.04 but again dissatisfied and now installed and configured 10.04 LTS.

  20. Unknown's avatar slackwrdave | July 17, 2011 at 10:07 am | Reply

    Originally posted by ManiDhillon:

    Well then I am stuck with Ubuntu

    Yeah, we all do different things with the OS, not that I'd know what to recommend even if I knew what you did.For my distro needs and preferences, I look for the following:–emphasis on free (libre), but doesn't have to be 100% militant about it. I'll take some availability of non-free, but I don't want it shoveled in there in advance.–large developer and user base.–longevity. You can look at a distro webpage and tell if it's too excited sounding, or too much one person's project.–I prefer community based distros, though Ubuntu's corporate backing seems to work OK as does Slackware's "benevolent dictator" system.

  21. Unknown's avatar 0x29a | July 17, 2011 at 2:07 pm | Reply

    Originally posted by slackwrdave:

    It's the White House again.

    Sadly, I spoke too soon. It actually turned out to be a problem with kmail losing contact with my fetchmail/IMAP server. Fail.:cry:

  22. Unknown's avatar 0x29a | July 17, 2011 at 2:07 pm | Reply

    Originally posted by ManiDhillon:

    Well then I am stuck with Ubuntu.

    I've been using LinuxMint 11, lately. Very nice.

  23. Unknown's avatar harrytheman | July 17, 2011 at 3:07 pm | Reply

    Originally posted by 0x29a:

    Originally posted by ManiDhillon:

    Well then I am stuck with Ubuntu.

    I've been using LinuxMint 11, lately. Very nice.

    I also use LinuxMint. I have played around with Puppy and Ubuntu but none of the others. All three seem quite good to me.

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