WordPress 1.5 released
February 15, 2005 @ 10:34
Such a nice valentine's gift, WordPress 1.5 was released yesterday. There's work to do for me then....
Moronic Windows behavior
February 10, 2005 @ 14:29
I just bumped into another display of moronic Windows behavior. I'm setting up my mom's new computer with Windows XP Home. I have installed the...
Oh crap!
August 13, 2004 @ 12:26
I've spend a whole lot of time on this really gruesome bug. I foolishly tried to install an ISDN card after updating and patching Windows...
Changes and language switching
July 27, 2004 @ 13:15
I haven't been all that happy with this site for quite a while... for several reasons. One is that for an extended period of time...
Firefox
February 9, 2004 @ 18:59
In case you missed it: Mozilla released the successor to the Firebird browser (née Phoenix), called Firefox. Go get it... it's the best browser around...
FreeBSD
January 18, 2004 @ 15:53
Well, you could wait for it. First he starts obsessing over achieving the best high octane espresso, then he installs Linux on a spare partition,...
Linux, yea!
December 30, 2003 @ 01:01
OMG! I just installed Linux. Heh... It took a little doing, but I just installed Mandrake 9.2 on a spare partition and I'm typing this...
Generic Host Process
November 28, 2003 @ 17:40
When it comes to Microsoft Windows, I must confess to having a bit of a paranoid streak. The other day, when investigating some strange network...
XP and my local network
October 29, 2003 @ 21:11
Okay, I've now installed Windows XP four (FOUR!) times before figuring out why it won't play nice with my local network. I run my local...
New Mozilla releases not for download
October 15, 2003 @ 17:04
I guess this is good news. Mozilla.org released Mozilla 1.5, Firebird 0.7, and Thunderbird 0.3, but they're totally unavailable for download at the moment. Ftp.mozilla.org...
Unified User Data Storage
October 14, 2003 @ 10:20
This weekend I reinstalled my dad's computer. I did the whole data backup, format, reinstall dance and song routine, and apart from a couple of...
GoUp
October 9, 2003 @ 10:33
GoUp is a brilliant little extension for Firebird. This is what it does: Allows you to quickly move up a level in a site by...
Firebird downgrade
October 1, 2003 @ 14:34
Ick... I just downgraded from the Firebird 0.7 release candidate back to Firebird 0.6.1. I had initially downloaded the September 25 (or 26?) build of...
Oh yeah!
September 29, 2003 @ 10:01
Fresh release candidates for Mozilla Firebird (0.7) and Thunderbird (0.3). Update: Firebird finally has a whitelist system for blocking cookies! Unfortunately, the new release appears...
Firebird losing its tabs
September 9, 2003 @ 14:02
I mentioned before that Firebird occasionally manages to lose all open tabs. It happens consistently in the two following instances, so be warned: If Firebird...
F*** you too Microsoft
August 29, 2003 @ 13:30
My strong suggestion is that someone at Microsoft is decapitated for messing up in a small, but supremely annoying way. It has to do with...
2 become 1
August 29, 2003 @ 12:55
Owen points to a very interesting dual screen hack for Windows, Win2VNC, and Matthew Haughey's comments on controlling multi-computer, multi-monitor set-ups from one keyboard and...
Three more links
August 10, 2003 @ 19:27
These links don't really go anywhere... A real coilgun pistol: Gauss gun Pskov 1100. Now if I could only remember the name of that Amiga...
Firebird eats CPU time
August 10, 2003 @ 18:07
It's a bit annoying that Firebird v0.6 gobbles up 80 to 99 percent of the available CPU time when I have 25+ tabs open at...
OpenOffice
August 10, 2003 @ 12:32
I get the impression that Evan needs to have a look at OpenOffice....
Whitelist vs blacklist
August 5, 2003 @ 10:59
It appears as if more and more discerning websurfers who previously preferred Opera are switching to Mozilla Firebird. Firebird has a lot going for it,...
Losing my tabs
July 10, 2003 @ 09:09
One drawback of using Firebird with the Tabbrowser Extensions is that I've managed to loose all my open tabs a couple of times now. I...
Zempt and Plugin Manager
July 6, 2003 @ 15:49
Six Log mentions two great releases for MovableType users. I'm using a new weblog posting client, Zempt, to post this entry. It basically does the...
FTPEdit and tweaks
June 26, 2003 @ 00:09
How did I ever get anything done on this site without FTPEdit? This freeware text-editor with customizable syntax highlighting doubles as a FTP client, transparently...
Firebird is leaking
June 17, 2003 @ 14:35
I've been using Mozilla Firebird as my primary browser for a while now and I think it's a pretty darn good browser already. My only...
Mozilla done right
May 21, 2003 @ 22:26
I've been playing around with the recent Mozilla Firebird 0.6 release and I really love this browser. Firebird (previously Phoenix) is a lightweight implementation of...
Opera downgrade
April 21, 2003 @ 16:41
I have actually downgraded from Opera 7.10 back to Opera 7.03. It seems that the Opera 7.10 upgrade is mostly cosmetic changes to the interface...
Some Composite hurdles
March 26, 2003 @ 18:02
A while ago there was some talk on the MovableType forums about getting a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor working with...
Moz1.3 observations
March 17, 2003 @ 23:13
I've been using Mozilla 1.3 for a couple of days now and while it's got its good sides, it's not picture perfect. I'm not using...
Moz1.3
March 13, 2003 @ 23:21
Mozilla 1.3, just released! Release notes here. Okay... here's a wish: Moz1.3 now supports rich text editing in a document... I want it in my...
Backing up
February 27, 2003 @ 12:40
I was looking for a good, comprehensive backup program to automate and schedule my backups and I found the freeware Backup4all. It's got everything you...
Opera 7 first beta
November 13, 2002 @ 14:01
Sweet! The first beta of the new Opera 7 browser has been released. I'm downloading right now and it seems the servers are being hit...
Office wars
October 31, 2002 @ 09:22
Slashdot and the Register report that Suse is introducing their Linux Office Desktop distribution, which runs Microsoft Office right out of the box. In completely...
Trillian
October 30, 2002 @ 08:43
I have been seduced by Trillian. Trillian is a free instant messenger (IM) client that gives you access to all major chatservices (AIM, ICQ, MSN,...
Limited trial version
October 24, 2002 @ 16:26
Humbug! I'm trying out the Internet Researcher software that promises to create backups of websites, including pages that are launched through javascript popups, but the...
Pivot blogging
October 17, 2002 @ 17:43
Just stumbled into Pivot, a Dutch homegrown piece of blogging software. Looks pretty cool and workable. One of the biggest pros would be that it...
Archiving websites for research
October 10, 2002 @ 12:37
A short while ago I posted to the Association of Internet Researchers mailinglist (Air-L), asking if those gathered there knew some good programs to archive...