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I’ve been quietly releasing some minor bugfixes for UI-Element. The release today adds a keys() method intended to simplify defining defaultValues for UI-Elements. It returns the keys of an object as a list of strings.
Also, elements defined with a leading underscore will not be considered as bona fide UI elements. This is to facilitate usage […]

As we make strides to automating the web at work, I caught myself asking myself an innocuous question: What incremental improvements can be made to Selenium UI-Element? Defining elements, especially for more complex pages, takes considerable effort. I wondered if some simple enhancements could make the task a bit easier.
But then I stopped myself. Why […]

Note: A bevy of additional information on UI-Element may be found by browsing the Selenium category of this blog. Some information in this post may be outdated. In particular, READ THIS FIRST.
Overview
UI-Element is an extension to Selenium IDE that aims to fill several functional gaps in both the IDE itself and integration with a driven […]

I wrote a blog entry a while ago on setting up the Canon Pixma MP500 on linux. Well, I upgraded CUPS, and everything went to shizzle. It just stopped working, with no obvious explanation.
Tracing back through my original frustrations, I remembered that the single most vexing problem was that of the user running the CUPS […]

/etc/rc.conf:

lo=”lo 127.0.0.1″
eth0=”dhcp”
ra0=”dhcp”
INTERFACES=(lo ra0)

/etc/conf.d/wireless:

wlan_ra0=”ra0 mode managed essid <AP> channel 11 key restricted <WEP>”
WLAN_INTERFACES=(ra0)

try_ra0.sh (startup script when using rt61 driver):
ifconfig ra0 down
ifconfig ra0 up
ifconfig ra0 192.168.2.10
route add default gw 192.168.2.1
iwconfig ra0 mode managed essid <AP> channel 11 key restricted <WEP>
/etc/pacman.conf:

# the rt2500 driver does not work for kernels more recent than 2.6.16
IgnorePkg = kernel26

/etc/fstab:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/share […]