I haven’t tested it myself, but an “etc” posting on Ars Technica says: Want to get someone off IE6? Put these 11 characters into the address bar and hit enter: ms-its:%F0:. The browser will instantly crash. Better yet, set it as their homepage.
On the first day the Magic Mouse was available—well, not so much available as it was shipping with new iMacs, so available to play with in the Apple Store—I went to try it out. While I didn’t think it was the best thing since sliced bread (or any other such amazing invention), I did think [...]
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Posted 01 December 2009
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This information is provided as-is, with no warranty, etc., which is to say if you use this information at all, you do so at your own risk. I’ve been using an Apple Mighty Mouse (bluetooth) for years now, so for years I’ve been dealing with a scrollball that occasionally gets stuck. As someone who used [...]
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Posted 01 December 2009
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Tagged: alcohol, apple, apple mighty mouse, ball, degunk, denatured, denatured ethanol, denatured ethyl alcohol, ethanol, ethyl alcohol, gunk, mighty mouse, mouse, mouse ball, rubbing alcohol, scroll, scroll ball, unstick
… or “how to serve different image types at one URL.” … or “why I let myself get carried away reading from one blog post to another.” After discovering free and cheap SSL certificates, I was playing with some sites over HTTPS to see what different browsers would show for the security. Very quickly, I [...]
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Posted 04 November 2009
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Tagged: apache, content negotiation, extensions, file type extensions, file types, htaccess, image, image file types, image files, images, mod_negotiation, multiviews, w3, w3.org
StartCom is the certificate authority providing StartSSL certificates: unlimited 1-year domain-validated single-site SSL certificates for free (“Class 1″); unlimited 2-year domain-validated single-site, UCC, or wildcard certificates after paying $39.90 to further validate your account (“Class 2,” which necessitated photo IDs and a phone call, and is good for 1 year); 2-year EV certificates for $149.90 [...]
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Posted 03 November 2009
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Tagged: certificate, certificate authority, certificates, free, free ssl, ssl, ssl certificates, startcom, startssl, tls, ucc, wildcard, wildcard certificate
I suppose it’s a bit misleading to call the least bad something the “best.” This past weekend, I experience a harddrive failure–a 2-year-old WD RE2 0.5TB drive failed before its 5-year warranty was up and well before its MTBF (1.2 million hours = 136.895463 years). It’s been a while since I had a drive fail [...]
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Posted 27 October 2009
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Tagged: backup, disk, disk failure, disk utility, drive, failure, mac, mirror, os x, raid, raid 1, raid mirror, raid1, re, re2, redundant, smart, time machine, wd, wd re, wd re2
I’ve had my Mac Pro for over 2 years now and for much of that time I’ve been resigned to the idea that my Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mighty Mouse were just not going to work well more than 6 inches from the front-lower-right corner of the Mac Pro case. Early on, after I’d had [...]
Several weeks ago, I attempted to enable OpenID logins on this blog. It didn’t work well. It didn’t work at all. Bad Behavior, which I consider absolutely critical in cutting down the impact of spambots, also broke the chain of redirects/reposts that enable OpenID logins. Now, however, with Bad Behavior 2.0.30 (and 2.0.31), the RPX [...]
A slight misconfiguration had SpamAssassin dropping spam into ~/Maildir/.spam/ while Dovecot was looking for mbox files in ~/mail/. From my initial bit of Googling, I was expecting to have to download some program to do the heavy lifting. Luckily, I came across a very simple blog post with a very simple answer that worked like [...]
Of all the various services that I use/host online, I consider email to be, by far, the most critical. It’s been over 11 years since I registered my first domain name so as to have a permanent email address regardless of changes in educational institution or employer. I’ve gone through a variety of email setups [...]