Thursday, October 26, 2006
Hack the Vote -- 10:08 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun
If you want to get yourself thoroughly depressed this morning, head over to Ars Technica and read their latest article on how easy it is to hack electronic voting machines without anyone ever knowing the difference. This could make that whole Bush-Gore election fiasco look like a trip to the Magic Kingdom. I think I'm going to have to go lie down now.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Firefox 2.0 Released -- 2:32 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun
The Mozilla team has released Firefox 2.0. This is probably a more incremental update than a full-blown .0 release, but it's still cool. The best new features for me are the built-in spell-checker and phishing protection. You can peruse the release notes for all the changes. Now I just have to track down a couple of extensions that don't have 2.0 releases yet.
IE 7 - Meh -- 2:16 pm CST, Update by The Master
I have been playing with the new IE 7.0 on my home PC since Sunday evening. It's a huge improvement over IE6, but overall I don't think it's any better than Firefox, and nothing they've added is truly revolutionary. Then again, everyone in browsers has been ripping off Mozilla or Opera for the last 5 years anyway.
It's . . . ALIVE! -- 2:06 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun
No, I'm not firing up the bad Halloween puns. I managed to bring back my old Celeron 400 box from the dead. It was randomly locking up or rebooting. Then one day it just refused to start up. After way too much trial-and-error, I determined that the problem was that it was being shorted on the case somewhere. After a couple of minor changes and a reassembly, it seems to be working fine again. It's not that its death would have been a HUGE loss, but I hate tossing perfectly useful hardware. It's old, but for the kids to do some surfing or word processing, it works fine. Special thanks to Crawl and The Master for helping me with the debugging.
The Master comments: And here I was sure you had a dying mobo. Heh. A short will do that though.
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