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Archive for April, 2004
Server went down
In: Personal
17 Apr 2004Ugh the server hosting this site went down for at least 7 hours today with no news or emails from the hosting company. Even their own site was down. I’m looking at sharing a dedicated server with several online friends, so maybe I’ll be rid of these problems and have less downtime.
Mozilla Backup is an excellent, excellent tool for making backups of your Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird profiles. Something that should be included in those applications in some similar form or incarnation. That said, I just lost my latest Firefox profile from today’s Windows XP clean-up-the-junk-by-reformatting operation, even after I remembered to backup my profile immediately [...]
New Firefox feature: add smart keywords from form fields.
In: Mozilla
13 Apr 2004I haven’t been getting nightly builds recently and I just did so when I noticed at The Burning Edge that 2004-04-11 builds include this new “Add keyword for this search” feature. Now that is so useful because the old way of doing this is so non-intuitive and difficult to explain to non-technical users (who really [...]
Speaking in binary
In: Fun
7 Apr 2004Via weirdbeardmt in this thread: Binary translator converts regular text to binary and vice-versa. Beware – the binary dialect of geek-speak is now easily translatable. Conversation occuring here.
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