Paul A. Luzzi

April 27, 2011

First, an update to my July 31 2008 post about Firefox plugins, this really should be its own entry, but I’m so used to searching for this July 31 entry that I don’t want multi steps. But Firefox 4 has dropped the keyboard shortcut for F6 to take you to the address bar. This fixes that :

F6 Fix — https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/f6/

Another thing – recently, I’ve been having trouble with some of the HP DV series laptops. Specifically with the well known wireless issues. The first few of these that I had, I was getting motherboards from Alibaba at about 150-200 bucks, and swapping them out … which is no simple/quick effort. But now I’m finding that this little AirLink 150n USB ultra mini wireless adapter is all that is really needed! I fire up the laptop, connect it to the network via cable, plug this little guy in, let it download the drivers, shut it down, remove the internal, and fire up. Now laptops that wouldn’t go 24 hours are going 2 weeks and beyond. And its so small you can hardly even notice it. So so much easier. To make it even more attractive? Its always 100% signal where my built in was like 70-80%, and its not dropping persistent web sessions like the built in was. Should have done this long ago. Success so far on dv9008nr, dv9417cl, and tx1000z.