The main hard drive on the workstation has been running out of space for the past few months, and the limits of semi-draconian purging has reached its limit. Basically, … Continue reading »
The battery on my old Treo 180 is nearing its end. While the phone has never great on battery life, I’m now only getting a bit over a day … Continue reading »
I have to proclaim the total awesomeness of Sage, a feed reader for Firefox. My long-ago attempt to slap one together in PHP hasn’t been touched in close to … Continue reading »
I found wififreespot.com to be pretty complimentary to, say, jwire.com, which lists mainly commercial wi-fi providers, e.g., Starbucks, Kinkos, hotels, etc. No idea on the accuracy of the listings, yet. … Continue reading »
Here’s a Wiki that compiles a listing of Cleveland Wifi Hotspots. This list distinguishes between free and not-free spots and at least has a verification column. It might … Continue reading »
Courtesy of this Lifehacker.com link, we have this browser security test that scans for browser vulnerabilities in IE, Firefox/Mozilla and Opera. I just upgraded Firefox to 1.0.2, but the … Continue reading »
The main PC in the house had been making whining noises for the past few months. This morning, it became sufficiently annoying for me to open up the computer … Continue reading »
This post on Hack-A-Day has instruction for getting to FireFox’s “advanced” configuration page. You can then make changes so that network pipelining is turned on, i.e., the browser will … Continue reading »
I’ve been getting a lot of comments spam in the past few days trying to improve the pagerank of some online pharmacy. Firewall rules haven’t been that effective, since … Continue reading »
A follow-up to the mail server upgrade from a few weeks ago, and we’ve wound up upgrading Sendmail and Cyrus to the FC3pre versions (8.13.1 and 2.2.6, respective). These … Continue reading »