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This frustrated the shit out of me. My setup: Vista Business SP1, Firefox 3.0.1, Quicktime 7.5 (861).

No matter how hard I tried, besides disabling the Quicktime plugin in Vista, moving/deleting npqtplugin4.dll in the Firefox plugins folder or hex editing it, Firefox 3.0.1 would always play any mp3s I clicked in a full screen Quicktime plugin.

The about:plugins shows the following:

QuickTime Plug-in 7.5 (861)

File name:
npqtplugin4.dll

The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.

How the hell do you change one of those values to say “enabled: no”?

Changing Mime Type associations in Firefox via Options -> Applications does nothing - Quicktime always gets there first

Changing Mime Settings in Quicktime Preferences launches Vista’s Set Program Associations which is also fruitless

After much digging around, I have worked out that the following will let you handle audio/mpeg (mp3) the way you want:

• Go to about:config
• Type ‘plugin’ in the filter box (minus quotes)
• Look for ‘plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types’
• If it already exists and contains a value, add ‘,audio/mpeg’ to the end of it, otherwise just change the value to ‘audio/mpeg’
• Fully close Firefox, wait a few seconds for it to clean up and die
• Launch Firefox again.. click an MP3 link.. voila! it does whatever you’ve specified in your Firefox Options -> Applications

Just a quick note:

Apache 2.2 with PHP 5.2.6-2 on Debian fails to shutdown properly on one of my servers

apache2ctl stop or /etc/init.d/apache2 stop or equivalents would result in “waiting…………….” until a timeout and then the new process is launched anyway which fails because the port is already in use, apache2 never finished shutting down properly

Not sure exactly what the problem is, but downgrading to PHP 5.2.6-0.dotdeb.1 via DotDeb mirrors solved the issue

Hopefully it will be fixed in the next version/patch

It’s day 1 of the transition out of the Velocity Diet - the 28 day diet has been completed!

Final Measurements (cold, not flexed):

Bicep: 14.5″ (-0.5″)
Calf: 16.25″ (-0.75″)
Thigh: 22.25″ (-1.75″)
Neck: 14.75″ (-0.75″)
Forearm: 12.5″ (-0.25″)
Waist: 32″ (-4.5″)
Lower Abs: 36″ (-4″)
Chest: 39″ (-2″)

Total inches lost: 14.5″

Weight: 206lbs (14st 10lbs) / 93.4Kg

Total weight lost: 16lbs / 7.2Kg

I am now within 10lbs of my original goal for summer, I’m predicting around 6 weeks to get there. I will transition from the Velocity Diet onto T-Dawg Diet 2.0

Overall I’m very pleased with the 16lbs loss and it’s very noticable

The last day before the transition!

Measurements haven’t changed since last time:

Today’s Measurements (cold, not flexed):

Bicep: 14.25″ (-0.75″)
Calf: 16.25″ (-0.75″)
Thigh: 22.25″ (-1.75″)
Neck: 14.75″ (-0.75″)
Forearm: 12.5″ (-0.25″)
Waist: 32″ (-4.5″)
Lower Abs: 36″ (-4″)
Chest: 39″ (-2″)

Weight: 207lbs (14st 11lbs) / 93.8Kg (-15lbs / 6.8Kg)

I will post my immediate post Velocity Diet figures tomorrow and then some post transition figures a further 2 weeks later

I am happy with the results thus far, I hoped to lose 14lbs and have exceeded that

My ultimate target has been 196lbs @ 8% body fat (assuming I’ve calculated everything properly!).. hopefully I’ll be there within 6 weeks

Here’s my original fat loss estimate chart for 2008 just for fun

Nearly there - 3 full days to go

Today’s Measurements (cold, not flexed):

Bicep: 14.25″ (-0.75″)
Calf: 16.25″ (-0.75″)
Thigh: 22.25″ (-1.75″)
Neck: 14.75″ (-0.75″)
Forearm: 12.5″ (-0.25″)
Waist: 32″ (-4.5″)
Lower Abs: 36″ (-4″)
Chest: 39″ (-2″)

Weight: 208lbs (14st 12lbs) / 94.3Kg (-14lbs / 6.3Kg)

I think that my weight is due for a couple of pounds drop over the next couple of days. 14 pounds was my target so I’ve reached that already!

End of week 3

Weight: 209lbs (14st 13lbs) / 94.8Kg (-13lbs / 5.9Kg)

Almost the end of week 3

Today’s Measurements (cold, not flexed):

Bicep: 14.25″ (-0.75″)
Calf: 16.25″ (-0.75″)
Thigh: 22.5″ (-1.5″)
Neck: 14.5″ (-1″)
Forearm: 12.5″ (-0.25″)
Waist: 32.5″ (-4″)
Lower Abs: 36″ (-4″)
Chest: 39″ (-2″)

Weight: 211lbs (15st 1lbs) / 95.7Kg (-11lbs / 5Kg)

Weight: 212lbs (15st 2lbs) / 96.1Kg (-10lbs / 4.5Kg)

10lbs gone and 8 whole days left.

When I started I was hoping for 1st / 14lbs loss and it looks like I should come very close to that

Today’s Measurements (cold, not flexed):

Bicep: 14.5″ (-0.5″)
Calf: 16.5″ (-0.5″)
Thigh: 22.5″ (-1.5″)
Neck: 14.75″ (-0.75″)
Forearm: 12.75″ (no change)
Waist: 33″ (-3.5″)
Lower Abs: 37″ (-3″)
Chest: 39.5″ (-1.5″)

Weight: 214lbs (15st 4lbs) / 97Kg (-8lbs / 3.6Kg)

Weight has remained the same for a few days but some measurements are down so I’m not too bothered