Ever spend oh I don’t know, an HOUR typing up something big in a web form, and somewhere toward the end… maybe the last period or so, you press the backspace key on your keyboard and BOOM! you instantaniously get sent back to the previous webpage?

Yep, I just did that… not fun. When you’re completing forms using IE, you better make sure you keep track which window is in focus or you’re going down.

back button = backspace used to be a good idea, maybe in 1997 but not today. As one guy puts it: “It falls in to the same catagory as the f-lock key and Jar Jar Binks!”

So come to find out, you actually can disable it in firefox:

Type about:config in Firefox Location Box, and then confirm the warning message. Then locate the following preference name: browser.backspace_action

Change the browser.backspace_action to one of the following values to reflect your intention on how the Backspace key should behaves:

0: Pressing [Backspace] will go back a page in the session history and [Shift]+[Backspace] will go forward. (Default in Windows)
1: Pressing [Backspace] will scroll up a page in the current document and [Shift]+[Backspace] will scroll down. Except Camino that does not implement any behavior for the value 1, which is unmapped. (Default in Linux builds before 2006-12-07)
Any other integer number: Any other integer value will simply unmap the backspace key. In Linux builds after 2006-12-07, the default is 2.

Source: My Digital Life

Doesn’t look like there’s a solution for IE. I guess I’ll have to um, “stage” my big form entries in notepad first

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I got this sweet deal from a guy I work with who sold me (4) 250GB disks for $100 a few months back. I figured this would be the perfect time to upgrade my storage solution @ home since I was pushing the limit of my Win2k3 software-raid 5 ATA disk setup.

Did I mention that windows BLOWS CHUNKS @ software raid 5. Just believe me, don’t even bother trying it. I promise you’ll give up on day two of 4 of the initial disk set build. Don’t get me wrong, they tried and for the most part it works great; except when you’re trying to:

• Copy up 10+GB single files of raw video/audio
• Do anything else that requires you to save a file over the network

So I finally got around to buying that cheaper than a $2 hooker hardware raid card I’ve been googlie-eyed over, it’s a Rosewill RC-217. Just a cheap little SATAII Raid card.

Here’s the pics & specs from my rebuilds:

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The grey box w/blue lighting is the main server. It’s got 600GB of raid-5 goodness in it and also doubles as a Win2k DC w/DNS, TiVO stuff, ORB, DNS/DHCP Blah, blah blah… Oh yeah, it’s a AMD Duron 1GHz w/2GB RAM.

The green machine is a Athlon XP 3000+ with 1GB RAM running FreeNAS since BSD/Linux actually each have a very decent implementation of software raid-5. This one is solely an “archive biatch”.

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