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LifeHacker.com ran a poll of their readers last week to determine what their “must-have” Firefox extensions are. Surprise, surprise — AdBlock was at the top of the list. LifeHacker is an ad-supported site, so the title for the post reporting the results is no shock. (I don’t see any need to block ads, myself — …
I like this review, especially the somewhat-snarky paragraph at the end: All in all, IE 8 beta 2 sucks a lot less than one might expect, given IE6 and IE7. It feels like the product is truly catching up to the current state of the browser art, and the fact that my brother-in-law will get …
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At the end of my last iPod Touch entry, I mentioned that I was going to try jailbreaking the Touch so I could load music onto it from Linux, instead of relying on a VMware Windows machine. I did so. Everything seemed to work with no problem, but after I loaded any song into it, …
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If you have any sympathy at all for Microsoft, you’ve gotta wince at this story. It’s not the first time something like that has happened either… on a trip to Toronto a few years ago, I saw an absolutely HUGE electronic billboard — which was showing a gigantic Windows error message-box instead of the ads …
So, having learned that the iPod Touch probably could replace my slowly-dying Palm TX, I’ve picked one up a few days ago. The box said that it required Windows or Mac OS X, which is an irritation but not a problem; I have this system set up to dual-boot between Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP, …
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Well, I did it. I’m writing this entry on my new (and newly-updated) iPod Touch. I have to say, I really like the interface. I’m still trying to figure out how to import all of my data to it, other than the music, but I’ll get it eventually. (This post is mostly a test.)
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I’m usually an all-out pro-technology guy, but I agree with this completely: no e-voting until it’s provably (and checkably!) secure against fraud. There are too many people who would see the ends (the election of their chosen candidates) as justifying the means (tampering with the voting system) — you’ve got to make it as hard …
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Quite interesting…
I’m very security- and privacy-conscious, so it came as something of a shock to read (on LifeHacker) about a kind of cookie file that I didn’t know existed. I picked up the Objection extension and took a look… there were files from all sorts of places, going back years. 🙁 I am not happy about …