December 24th, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, software
Today when I switched to Firefox 3 Beta 2, I realized it was time to get rid of Google’s toolbar. I haven’t used this rather heavy, bloated extension for anything else than swiftly performing searches of the current website (queries such as site:420.thrashbarg.net wtf), and I guessed that a much smarter way of doing this [...]
December 3rd, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, technology, web hosting
As I was setting up my sister’s website I had one of those “How on earth did I manage to miss this?” moments: namely, the use of custom domains has been supported in free Feedburner accounts since early July this year. This is yet another example of how the Google empire is taking over the [...]
September 1st, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in Finnish, internet, linux/unix, politics, suomeksi, technology
Tämä teksti syntyi alkuperäisesti vastauksena Tietokone-lehden Tietoja koneesta-blogille.
Itse käytän aina NoScript, CookieSafe ja Adblock Plus-laajennuksia Firefoxissa. (EDIT: Cookiesafea ei ylläpidetä enää, maailma on siirtynyt käyttämään saman tekijän CSLite-nimistä lisuketta)
Käytännössä tämä tarkoittaa sitä että pääsen eroon javascripteistä, java- ja flashcrapleteistä, kaikista evästeistä ja mainoksista, jos en salli niitä erikseen, mikä on tarvittaessa helppo tehdä domain-kohtaisesti. Nykyisin [...]
July 21st, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, linux/unix, technology, windows
Windows Home Server, based on Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition “minus the Exchange mail server”, has been released. This raises a number of questions in my head: Will the new category of Home Server hardware, combined with presumably easy to understand support for multi-disk redundancy be the ultimate backup solution Normal People and Very [...]
July 5th, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, personal, technology, web hosting
This will be an overly lengthy piece of sort-of technical yadda-yadda, but I’ll provide a
Short version: I switched to DreamHost from… nothing (a home server), paying together with other family members. My monthly web hosting expenses will thus be comparable to the cost of an ice cream cone. DH has very generous, increasing bandwidth [...]
