Seriously, there's a major security hole in Internet Explorer that also opens up vulnerabilities in other browsers. Even if you rarely if ever use IE, you need to secure your system if you're running Windows. If you don't know how to, Yahoo! Tech has a handy guide. It's fairly major, several popular websites have been hijacked, one well known ( Read more... )

Righty ho, backing up my firefox profile again, so as usual all my current extensions, some of them are just pointless unfortunately, and I've still not got around to installing some of those recommended to me. Ah well, completely clean profile on the machine I'm migrating to, will pick and choose as per usual.
( The usual long list )

Completely unsorted unformatted list from my extension list dumper, I'll probably go back and edit this into something more coherent later but I need the data posted somewhere so here it is:
( Complete dump of firefox extensions, for previous lists see the tag )

Yesterday, I had two posts I was planning to make at some point. Then my shiny new work laptop arrived, but it wouldn't stay online for more than 5 minutes and fixing it took me ages. But in another attack of shared brain[ 1], ( Read more... )

Well, se, the problem with constantly switching PCs is...

I'm spending most of this week on a different computer, but will want to be doing some web developement, so posted mostly for my reference, the addons that I've got installed on the work laptop (which I use for personal stuff when I'm travelling, etc as well):

( Dumped list from Extension List Dumper )

OK, so requiem2adream posted a YouTube parody of the PC/Mac adds where it's DC/Marvel, and it amused me, lots. She also linked to the whole series of them. So I watched them. One after another. All evening. I chuckled. Lots. Toy superheroes arguing over their movie deals. Then they went to the bar.

( Part one-Starring Hulk as the bouncer! )

innerbrat lists her favourite Firefox extensions, and asks: How have you customised your Firefox? Which add-ons have you used, how have you altered them, and what couldn't you do without?
So I thought I'd do a follow up to my firefox extensions post and list all those not listed there by me that I'm currently losing. A fair few of these (especially ( Read more... )

K, I've had a few different but very similar conversations with people recently, along the lines of If you're using Firefox but not using any plugins, you might as well be using Opera, because, quite simply, while Fx is great for security, customisation and flexibility, Opera is as good on security, is probably better for usability, and is better ( Read more... )

I know there are some physicists and other science types hanging around, this looks very cool, but it's way beyond my normal abilities to get the basics of science.
Quantum computer solves problem, without running
“In a sense, it is the possibility that the algorithm could run which prevents the algorithm from running,” Kwiat said. “That is at ( Read more... )

From theweaselking: Mike Hoye provides Ways To Make PDFs Not Suck for everyday use and viewing.

The short version:

Get Firefox.
Get the PDF-Download extension for Firefox, allowing you to choose to open PDFs in the browser, convert to HTML, or download to your PC, on the fly.
Get Foxit Reader, which is just like Adobe Reader but teeny and not bloated and fast.
No ( Read more... )