My initial experiences with the Firefox 3.5 betas were not positive. For whatever reasons, the betas didn’t like me or my computers. So when it was time to upgrade to the real 3.5 release today I was a bit nervous…
Don’t be. If you’re running Firefox, you want to go to the Help menu and
Continue reading Public Service Announcement: FF 3.5 — Get It!
I recently mentioned that I was trying out the free Comodo Internet Security suite. I’m about done with the initial evaluation so I reckon I should share some initial impressions.
The free version touts firewall protection, antivirus and proactive security. It seems to do a pretty solid job at keeping an eye on what’s going
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I had an interesting challenge today: Needed to edit a large XML file (about 2 GB) to find and fix some bad data. I often use Notepad++ for quick and dirty editing, but not for this file. It told me the file was too big.
I tried a few other options and didn’t have much luck,
Continue reading JujuEdit — Edit Huge Files
Last week, Opera announced the latest beta version of their Mobile browser on the Windows Mobile platform. The Dev.Opera site has a nice breakdown of the latest features:
New rendering engine: Opera Mobile 9.7 uses our Opera Presto 2.2 rendering engine, which gives improved speed, 100/100 on the Acid 3 test, and many new standards support
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A few months ago I shared some information about checking for Conficker with nmap. Unfortunately, it turns out that post was out of date pretty quickly. Whoops. How about some updates?
From the nmap changelog page:
New Conficker versions eliminate the loophole we were using to detect them with smb-check-vulns,nse, so we’ve added new methods which work
Continue reading Conficker Detection: Updated