Can you believe that I've been online since the ARPAnet and yet, in 2017, do not know the nuts and bolts of domain-name management? Perhaps you, dear reader, will point me toward the clues, and I promise not to be offended that you're quietly snickering there.

The recent LJ upheaval is far from the first signal that really, if you care about ( Read more... )

Dear Brain Trust,
The (local, paper) newspaper that I subscribed to recently shut down its print operation. I basically subscribed for three things: local news, grocery coupons (paid for the subscription easily), and the comics page. I'm looking for an online replacement for the comics page.
I've been using comics.com, which has many of the ( Read more... )

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Dear brain trust,

I finally have a new Mac, but it came with OS 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). I'd like to update to El Capitan. No problem, I figured; my older Mac was practically begging me to do this for a couple months, but I wasn't going to risk it on an older machine ( Read more... )

For the past couple weeks -- but not before then -- both Firefox and Chrome have been randomly seizing up on me on my Mac at home (running Snow Leopard). When this happens, first that application and then (about 10-15 seconds later) the entire machine become unresponsive, presenting the spinning beachball of doom. After a minute or so, but ( Read more... )

Dear LJ brain trust,

I use the Ghostery browser extension to notify me of (and disable until approved) third-party trackers on web sites, because I don't really want random sites snooping on my browsing habits. I just restarted Firefox, picking up some updates in the process, and the notifier thingie has gotten super-annoying and hard to dismiss ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about updating my streaming. You can help ( Read more... )

It used to be that if you put out a software product, and particularly as you produced new versions of it, people might complain about things that were hard or different (change bad!) or broke their workflow, and you'd decide whether to add some configuration parameters or redesign it again or just tell them to suck it up. There wasn't much they ( Read more... )

We sometimes hear about mandatory evacuations because of storms (hurricanes, winter storms, etc). Hearing about one a couple of years ago that was announced on a Saturday morning prompted me to ask this question about evacuations on Shabbat. Now the question of timing has come up ( Read more... )

I've been using cnn.com for my daily national/world news roundup, but they just redesigned the site and made it ugly and bloated. So I'm in the market for a news site that isn't ( Read more... )