Max's Miscellaneous Musings

Yay, a new version of Firefox.  I'm not as excited about it as you might think.  It's more one of those "meh" "Yays" instead of a truly ecstatic "Yay". The new version of FF decided to change the way it deals with opening new tabs.  I like control-clic… more »

MaxBabe got herself an iPhone on new year's eve.  I have long maintained that a phone is a phone is a phone, and should be nothing but a phone. That was until I met the iPhone.  This marvellous piece of technology has turned me around.  And so, in a fi… more »

Windows 7 is not too bad, as a client OS goes.  But I've really been missing the Quick Launch toolbar.  It's seemingly been replaced with a "pin to taskbar" feature, which is OK, I guess, but NOT the Quick Launch.  I've been living with this for a few da… more »

I've applied a b2evo mod that allows threaded comments - ie you can see replies to comments nested underneath said comment.  I don't know if a reply to a comment actually generates an outbound email to the original commenter.  I suspect it does not, but… more »

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I am, of course, referring to the "clean feed", in which people in the Australian government make decisions on my behalf, about what I should and shouldn't be able to see on the interwebs. The government seems to think that imposing web filtering on eve… more »

... and he's Chinese. Hands up anyone who's surprised.:no: There were two things I found really interesting about this article. First is - Botnets are alive and well. For all the antivirus and antimalware programs out there, we - the IT community -… more »

A blog O' Plesk hints :yes: Check your DNS is working: :yes: more »

You know, if companies like BitDefender can't get it right, what hope do the rest of us stand? |-| more »