Another Firefox vs IE test
Earlier today I had a very strange request come across my inbox. An employee of another organization asked me to explain to her IT department why they were wrong in their assesment of Firefox . It...
View ArticleMozilla / Firefox bookmarklet for similicio.us
If you haven’t yet heard, there is a nifty new site, www.similicio.us, that helps you find sites similar to what you are currently looking at. As the site author puts it: This is a mashup of...
View ArticleSimilicio.us bookmarklet version 2
Nothing all that exciting, just made a version of the Similicio.us bookmarklet that opens the result in a new window. Here they both are: Search similicio.us Search similicio.us in a new window
View ArticleGoogle Calendar Notifier 2.1 released
Google Calendar Notifier 2.1 , by Nicholas Pike was released yesterday. If you use Google Calendar to keep track of your time this makes a handy way to interact with it via Firefox, which is my browser...
View ArticleSecurity fixes for Firefox
Firefox 1.5.0.7 was released this morning which fixes the following security issues: MFSA 2006-64 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.7) MFSA 2006-62 Popup-blocker cross-site scripting...
View ArticleBookmarklet and Google Gadget for etymonline.com
I ran across the Online Etymology Dictionary the other day and was blown away by the well-designed and incredibly useful service they offer. Of course, it’s much nicer to have access to that...
View ArticleMinefield: I came, I saw, I couldn’t use it
I decided I would be brave and download Minefield (the latest “trunk build” from Firefox) and try it out. I have been reading several reviews about how fast it is, and wanted to see for myself. I was...
View ArticleTest of gtk+ installer: VMWare 2, Gentoo 0
Well, I tried the gtk+ based graphical installer on a VMWare virtual machine. I am sad to say it failed painfully – and did so after many hours of emerging and compiling. Part of the problem was in the...
View ArticleSnobbery hurting Linux migration?
An article at reallylinux.com points out the issue of Linux user elitism and snobbery – which seems to be putting some Windows users off of trying Linux. I know it is something I’ve said before...
View ArticleSourceForge Enterprise Edition
If, like me you spend a lot of time on SourceForge and wish you could harness the SF functionality in your own development environment then this is for you. SourceForge has released SourceForge...
View ArticleUltimate Boot CD
Anyone who has ever had need of bootable recovery tools knows what a pain it is to try to build a bootable CD containing all the needed tools. Why do it all the hard way? There is a very handy one...
View ArticleKororaa – Gentoo with (Xgl) Eye Candy
While the debates carry on over what can be done to make Linux more feasible in the desktop market (in other words desirable enough that average users say “I want that!”) the one argument that seems to...
View ArticleCure for the External Drive Blues
I have been looking all over for a way to format an external drive so that I can use it under Linux, Windows and OS X. The reason for this is simple, I currently use Windows and Linux all the time, and...
View ArticleThe ‘Real’ Big Event
For linux fans the ‘Real’ Big Event yesterday wasn’t the superbowl, but the latest Linux kernel relase (2.6.20). This release includes 2 different virtualization implementations, KVM and...
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Xubuntu / XFCE / Beryl 0.2.0
While I have been a Gentoo fan for a while (Portage hooked me) I have been trying out Xubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10 with Beryl 0.2.0. Here’s my take: I have always like the XFCE environment almost as much as I...
View ArticleKeeping Gentoo Fresh
I had a converstion with a friend about Linux distros earlier today, and I was asked why I choose to run Gentoo on my web server. He told me that Gentoo was too hard to maintain on a server, and that...
View ArticleDaylight Saving Time Headaches
I have never been particularly fond of the concept of Daylight Saving Time (cutting one off of a blanket and sewing to the other end does not make a longer blanket.) This time around, though, I ran...
View ArticlePeter Nederlof’s whatever:hover to the rescue!
Well, I found a way to do CSS2 drop-down menus and force IE to accept them. It takes a little bit of JavaScript madness created by Peter Nederlof called whatever:hover which forces IE to accept the...
View ArticleFree Source for CSS Templates
There is a great resource for free CSS Templates, at (would you believe it) freecsstemplates.org! There are some very nice uses of CSS-only rounded corners (similar to Nifty Corners Cube), some very...
View ArticleAnother Firefox vs IE test
Earlier today I had a very strange request come across my inbox. An employee of another organization asked me to explain to her IT department why they were wrong in their assesment of Firefox . It...
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