Since I’ve recently started using the nightly builds for Firefox, I’ve found two essential preference additions to the Firefox configuration: extensions.checkUpdateSecurity set to false, which allows the installation of extensions that don’t provide secure updates, and
extensions.checkCompatibility set to false, which allows the usage of extensions and themes deemed not compatible.
⊗ I want
a Kindle. In fact, I’ve just added the Kindle to
my Amazon.com Wish List. This is the first gadget that I’m yearning to own. I didn’t want an iPod, an iPhone, or a Zune, but for some reason the Kindle calls out to me.
⊗ Hmm. There are
problems with the “Newer Version” of Gmail? I guess I’m one of the lucky ones. Though, I do wish Gmail had a better mail archiving option than POP.
⊗ I have to admit. I like how Yahoo! Sports has finally given
MMA and
Boxing their own pages. MMA is even listed before Boxing in the top menu of sports, which is fairly indicative of how far Boxing as a sport has fallen.
⊗ Microsoft’s Bill Hilf wins the
quote of the day: “We just had a bunch of our global account managers in with us, people who handle our super big customers, and they said, these customers don’t even know who Richard Stallman is, they don’t even care.” No love for RMS.
⊗ I’ve been wondering why Andrew Morton
doesn’t use git for the -mm kernel.
⊗ Facebook
has a WSOD, White Screen of Death, for application developers.
⊗ If Mac OS X were the “
anti-Linux” according to InformationWeek’s Alexander Wolfe, how can Mac OS X be “a better Linux” than Linux?
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