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Secure Registration and Login Fixed
If anyone has tried registering on the forums lately and was presented with a security warning, the issue is now fixed. Seems I didn’t read the manual as good as I thought I did
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Mail Server Restored
December 22, 2009 - 7:49 am
Tags: blog, email, forum, issues, server
Posted in Personal | No comments
For anyone who has tried to register with the forum and not gotten a confirmation e-mail, it seems the mail server has been stopped for a while. Today I discovered the problem and started the server backup. Everyone who tried to register should get your confirmation e-mail today.
Next Edition of JavaScript MAY Break the Scripts of Today.
December 21, 2009 - 6:09 pm
Tags: ECMA-262, Firefox, issues, javascript, Mozilla, Programming, SpiderMonkey, standards
Posted in Firefox, Internet, Programming | No comments
Jeff Walden, one of the Peer members of the Mozilla JavaScript module (SpiderMonkey) has brought to light some changes coming to their JavaScript interpreter in Firefox 3.7. These change will bring SpiderMonkey in line with the next edition of the JavaScript standard, ECMA-262. These count not only break existing code, but also introduce a new [...]
Moving Blog to New Server.
November 28, 2009 - 8:41 pm
Tags: blog, server
Posted in Personal | No comments
Well, I’m in the progress of moving the blog to a new server. This means that at the moment all comments are disabled (by requiring login). Should be back up soon.
New Server and end of Firefox Preloader
November 4, 2009 - 12:53 am
Tags: blog, Firefox, server
Posted in Firefox, Firefox Preloader, Glasser, Personal, Software | 11 comments
I know it has been a long time since I’ve updated Glasser. This has been compounded by loosing access to my server because of a bad update that killed SSH, but also work and getting a new server set up has slowed it.
I will admit that Firefox Preloader is kind of pointless to maintain [...]
IOBit Caught Stealing MalwareBytes database.
According to MalwareBytes, the security company IOBit, based in China has stolen their database of signature and incorporated it into their software’s database of signature. They determined this by using a fake detection that would have only appeared in their database and caught them red-handed.
You can read more about it at: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=29681
Dead Server
June 10, 2009 - 12:20 am
Tags: blog, server
Posted in Personal | 7 comments
For anyone who has been waiting for any updates for my Firefox stuff, it won’t be happening for a while. My webserver is botched and I am trying to move to a new host. In the mean time, everything is still downloadable.
A New Site… Again.
February 21, 2009 - 11:24 pm
Tags: blog, server
Posted in Personal | No comments
Well, I have moved hosts to one with more features and now I’m setting up a new blog so to say. It still uses all the old data so the old posts will remain but many new features are to come. Of those, I will now start hosting my software projects directly from my site. [...]
Window Live Writer
Some of Microsoft’s Window Live applications seems to be redundant for Vista, but some really seem kind of cool. Take for instance Window Live Writer. I’ve seen similar functionality in Flock, and other dedicated applications, but I really like Live Writer, just feels better. This is actually my first post using it and I may [...]
Web Server and Browser Security: Microsoft vs Open-Source
April 17, 2006 - 2:43 pm
Tags: Apache, Firefox, FreeBSD, IIS, Internet Explorer, Linux, Microsoft, Mozilla, security
Posted in Internet, Software | 2 comments
I know that this subject has been dragged out over and over but every one that does seems to be bias of one side or the other. Personally I prefer using open source servers and browsers; Firefox, Apache, and PHP; over Microsofts offering. My reasons for this are varied. I use Firefox [...]
New Blog!!!
January 27, 2006 - 12:07 pm
Tags: blog, server
Posted in Personal | No comments
I have not moved my blog back to my old webserver using b2evolution blog software. This now lets me maintain my own look an feel my blog (as soon as I come up with one). All my MSN Spaces blog entries and comments have been moved to to this softare and are complete.
June 9, 2009 - 3:00 am
Hey Mattew! Is it possible for you to write the “User Styles” script form the bookmark bar that matches the one use by Windows 7 explorer bar? Thanks in advance and keep the good work!