Firefox 1.0.1 out

Go get it! http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

From the release notes:

Prior to installing Firefox 1.0.1, please ensure that the directory you’ve chosen to install into is clean and doesn’t contain any previous Firefox installations.

Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.0.1:

* Improved stability
* International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode. (To show International Domain Names in Unicode, set the

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Wed Paranoia

I’ve mentioned these folks before, but SysInternals released a RootKit checker this week. Odds are, you might want to go have a look. They explain it much better than I can… but suffice it to say this goes along with my rather steady whining about the evils of spyware/malware and other icky such

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Irony

So earlier today I saw this news article in which Microsoft’s security chief proclaims that Windows is more secure than Linux. Then this afternoon I read about the new MSN Exploit. Now, in all fairness, MSN isn’t an OS (thank heavens!) but I have to confess I laughed aloud when I

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More Active Directory fun, vonage

Yesterday was mostly all about getting the home network back to a functional state. It took a few trials at it, but I finally got win2k3 server up and going in a happy fashion(ie useful) and began the work to get all the clients configured as well. The way windows stores user

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When will I learn?

I always tell people to skip the upgrade and go with the clean install whenever dealing with Windows. I’ve been saying it for years! “Got an option to upgrade or clean install? Take clean install.” So what did I do? I tried the upgrade… and now I got nuttin.

I

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