Archive For November, 2002

The Top 5 Misconceptions About …

The Top 5 Misconceptions About LindowsOS – you have to run it as root? gah! what security is that?!

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The Register reports the first …

The Register reports the first MS Stinger smartphone can’t dial up from your contact book! How did that get past the bug testers?

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Ok, so you have to bring the s …

Ok, so you have to bring the site down for maintenance, and display a nice “closed” sign on the site to visitors.Using Apache this is easy.1. Create a directory, maintenance in the document root of the web server. Inside there put a .htaccess file with the following: <limit GET POST>order allow,denyallow from all</limit> Create an [...]

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Installing WinXPI spent the la …

Installing WinXPI spent the last few days trying to get Windows XP onto a machine. It’s my first time installing XP, but I’m an old hand at installing older versions of Windows.First of all, XP would die mysteriously with cryptic error messages about “DMA”, or “paged memory in unpaged something”, and IRQ errors which all [...]

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Irish Times Article – Departme …

Irish Times Article – Department to store data on citizens for four years, so they’re going to store all the webpage URLs I download for 4 years? What about POST and GET requests? Will ISPs be given money by the government to do this? What about leased lines? There’s a heated conversation going on in [...]

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[ILUG] Mozilla dead? – As Rick …

[ILUG] Mozilla dead? – As Rick points out AOL are free to take whatever they like out of the Mozilla codebase and put it into a propreitary product. He’s right, Mozilla won’t die, even if AOL goes away.

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the wonders of zap – neat book …

the wonders of zap – neat bookmarklet that’ll deactivate Flash on the current webpage.

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BetaNews | New 'Communicator' …

BetaNews | New ‘Communicator’ Threatens Netscape’s Future AOL this month debuted in beta form a standalone e-mail client bundled with a new version of AOL Instant Messenger and an address book, a package collectively dubbed AOL Communicator. Code-named Photon, Communicator has been in development for close to two years, although AOL has made no decisions [...]

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Review Results: A Summary of o …

Review Results: A Summary of our Desktop Linux ReviewsProblems at MandrakeClub.Review of Xandros Desktop 1.0Interview with Michael “Monty” Widenius, designer and lead programmer for the MySQL database.John discusses PHP.Jeremy used his laptop on an internal US flight? I asked if I could use my Gameboy Advance on our flight to Crete last summer and was [...]

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Mozilla 1.2 is out. The Galeon …

Mozilla 1.2 is out. The Galeon RPMs won’t work with it so I’ll probably have to install Galeon from source..

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