New Firebug Autocomplete annoying with jQuery

Firebug is a great tool for web developers to debug webpages.

If you have installed the latest update from Firefox' Add-ons menu and tried to write jQuery commands into the console/command line of firebug you might have run across an annoying problem.

Firebug tries to autocomplete $, $(, $(', etc. adding $ and completing ' after the next character. Basically you have to keep hitting escape or delete to write your jQuery statement.

This problem is luckily fixed in the latest beta release. It is not available through the add-on menu in Firefox, but can be downloaded directly from the Firebug website. So head over to http://blog.getfirebug.com/2010/12/22/firebug-1-6-1b2/ and download it.

Source: http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=3184.

Disabling spellchecker in NetBeans

I started using NetBeans and quickly encountered the annoying red underlining of all words in my code. Disabling the spellchecker feature in NetBeans 6.9 is NOT done by deselecting all files in the Options -> Miscellaneous -> 'Spellchecker' tab.

For NetBeans to really understand that you don't want spellchecker, do the following:
Go to Tools -> Plugins -> Installed tab -> select the spellchecker plugin -> press Deactivate -> restart NetBeans

Alternatively try adding the file type you are working on (if NetBeans doesn't recognize it) by following this post: http://www.herikstad.net/2010/07/filetypes-in-netbeans.html#links

cron popularity-contest

Ever wonder what the script popularity-contest that can be found in /etc/cron.weekly/ is?

Well it is a script that periodically anonymously sends applications use statistics to Ubuntu so that they can decide what programs are most useful and should be included on the Ubuntu CD or be automatically installed.

It is not enabled by default, but if you want to help out; go to System->Administration->Software Sources and select the statistics tab, here you can check or uncheck for submitting statistical information.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=535067