A minor dissertation (yeah yeah, I know its not even close to being one) on my theories about teleportation (hmm that’s not in Firefox’s dictionary), faster-than-light speed and a hint of time travel.
I want to get the notion that if we successfully figure out how to teleport things (I hear we are close or have some very good theories on how to do it), that it will be instantaneous out of people’s heads. First, the fastest that is currently possible will be light speed, which if just around earth is almost near instant. Second, it wouldn’t even be light speed because it most likely would be traveling over wires or fiber cabling. That means speed is limited to how fast data can travel over the cabling. I imagine that converting an object to binary, or some other form of data that can be transmitted via light or electricity would produce massive amounts of data. Sending that data over some form of medium would take a long time, not just in terms of the signal reaching the end point, but also in terms of sending the entire data stream from one end to the other. There also has to be computers to break down and then compile the data. With today’s technology, it might just be faster to overnight ship the item.
This was a weird post but oh well I am weird person with very random thoughts.
Interesting tidbit, teleport and teleportation do not seem to be in Firefox’s internal dictionary as it keeps telling me the words are misspelled as other words.
Ok since Ubuntu made a change in how the touchpad scroll works in 8.10 and up, I figured I would make a new post describing how to fix the scrolling region. Well mainly its for me when I reinstall Ubuntu, well Linux Mint actually since thats my current flavor of Nix. I reinstall the OS quite often. Ok this will be quick and simple.
This is a fix for the problem where the right scroll region is too large. On my laptop, a Gateway MX6930, the right scroll region extends past the physical separator of my touchpad. It takes up about half the touch pad making it difficult to navigate the computer.
Use this post http://www.eddiemonge.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=59 to get the right scrolling region.
Type the following command into a terminal prompt (make sure you have vim installed. You do have vim installed right?)
sudo vim /etc/hal/fdi/policy/vertscroll.fdi
Once in vim you should have a blank screen with a blinking cursor. Hit ‘i’ to be able to insert text. Copy and paste the following code into the terminal. The number 5970 is for my Gateway MX6930. If you got a different value using the above linked post, then put that in instead.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
<merge key="input.x11_options.RightEdge" type="string">5970</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
After you have pasted it in, press the ESC key, then type ‘:wq’ (make sure to include the colon to be able to enter commands). This will write the text to the file then exit it.
After vim closes, restart the computer. Upon restart, the right scroll region should now be fixed.
Thanks to the Ubuntu forums located at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=970277 for this invaluable help.
