March 17th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, linux/unix, notes, software, technology, web hosting
Late last month, the Debian GNU/Linux project announced that security patch support for the old stable release, 3.1 (codename Sarge), will end on the last day of March. Many people will be using servers, integrated and other special systems with Sarge for a long time to come, without applying any patches, and I’m afraid I’ll [...]
December 25th, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, notes, software
Not much time passed after I posted my previous entry about using Firefox 3 Beta 2 as my main browser until I realized that while I had browsed around for almost a day without much trouble, I hadn’t used Ajax heavy sites such as Facebook and WordPress’ admin interface. As soon as I started using [...]
December 24th, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, software
Firefox 3 Beta 2 has a few quirks and instabilities, but is generally much faster and more pleasant to use than 2.x (I’ve tried the official win32 release and various Linux compiles), so I hope I’ll be able to keep using it. A few non-critical extensions which I normally use, haven’t been updated for this [...]
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 [...]
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