Detailed instructions for upgrading to Firefox 1.0.1
By now, Firefox 1.0.1 has been out a while. Several friends and clients have called me, asking me why their copy of Firefox is acting weird. “Did you upgrade to 1.0.1?”, I’ll ask. “Yup!”, they’ll respond. “Did you install over your old copy, without ...
No more Mozilla 1.8; in fact, no more Mozilla. Just Firefox.
In case you haven’t already heard, it’s over for Mozilla as far as future development is concerned. Oh sure, the Mozilla Foundation is going to keep maintaining the 1.7 branch, but that’s it. All future work is aimed at Firefox & Thunderbird. This was announced years ago, but ...
Really nice Flash-based OpenOffice.org tutorials - for 1.1 AND 2.0
I just found some really, really, really nice OpenOffice.org tutorials covering Writer, Calc, and the new Base. Even better, they’re for both OOo 1.1 AND the upcoming 2.0, so you can get an advanced look at the upcoming release. Even better than that, they’re in Flash, so you can ...
“Why isn’t BitTorrent faster?”, he asked.
I’m on a mailing list for web developers, & recently one of the guys on the list told he was using Tomato Torrent (a BitTorrent client) on his Mac OS X box to download a 1.3 GB file, and it had taken almost a day so far, & he was less than half way there. His point: “I thought ...
A great series on SSH
If you don’t use SSH or SFTP, and instead use telnet or FTP, you’re asking for it. Big time. FTP & telnet send everything - passwords included - in the clear. Not safe at all. But, even if you use SSH (& it’s descendants, SFTP & SCP), there’s always more to ...
Sharing a file system among Linux, Mac OS, and Windows
When you’re dual-booting (or triple-booting, or …), or when you’re sharing a portable USB2/Firewire hard drive among different boxes, all of a sudden, file systems become important. NTFS isn’t supported by Mac OS, to my knowledge, and while you can read it under Linux, ...
Firefox 1.0.1 released!
Big news today: Firefox 1.0.1 has been released! Don’t look for new features - this one is mainly about bug fixes and security (especially the punycode/IDN debacle of a few weeks ago that I wrote about in SecurityFocus). OK, there is ONE new feature: better tab control, or, as the release ...
Reason #5490 that LAMP rocks and Windows+IIS sucks
The fine bloggers over at Lockergnome’s Linux Fanatics blog have written an excellent, detailed rant about the huuuuuuuuge PITA they experienced when they migrated web sites from one Windows/IIS machine to another. Reading it, my heart was gladdened anew that I use LAMP (and MAMP: Mac OS ...
Killing a Mac OS X machine
My buddy Robert Citek has been interested, over the last couple of years, in ways to kill Unix machines. In other words, he tries to create scripts that will bring *nix machines to their knees. His interest isn’t malicious - he’s one of the most honest guys I know - but he thinks that ...
Firefox is THE success story in tech right now
Don’t believe me? IE’s market share is dropping, dropping, dropping, & guess who’s taking its place? Firefox. Microsoft’s IE continues to be seen as insecure and buggy, but guess what browser has a much better security record? Firefox. Guess ...
