Monthly Archives: January 2008

Ghost Train - A Semi-Story of Semi-Fiction

Tuesday, 29th January, 2008 – 06:09

The rain is a gentle pitter-patter against the glass door of Heuston Station. The ticket inspector nips the end of his fag and drops it into a rapidly growing puddle outside the door. He fixes his cap and moves towards the semi-warmth of the station. He saunters past the ticket booths, past the waiting passengers [...]

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Using .htaccess to Prevent Hot Linking

Friday, 25th January, 2008 – 14:43

Hot linking is when another website embeds an image from your website in theirs by directly linking to the image. It’s considered bad form, as every time the image is requested by a browser it’s your bandwidth being used, and bandwidth costs money.

The good news is that you can prevent hot linking by adding the [...]

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Today, I Will Be Mostly Writing Nothing

Friday, 25th January, 2008 – 13:42

I had planned on doing a post about Parallels Desktop vs VMware Fusion, and then another on the government being forced to put useless bilingual health warnings on cigarette packs. Following that, I was thinking of doing yet another post on the non-arrival of the 10.5.2 update for Leopard.

But I couldn’t be arsed. You’ll have [...]

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Data Leak Bug in Firefox

Thursday, 24th January, 2008 – 11:57

Mozilla have confirmed that there’s a bug in Firefox that could lead to your private data being exposed. The security people at Mozilla have rated this security issue as low and are working on a fix.

The bug involves how Firefox deals with “chrome://” URI’s and escaped characters. The full technical details and a demo of [...]

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How Long Does It Take to Generate an Automatic Email?

Wednesday, 23rd January, 2008 – 23:05

For some reason I recently got it into my head to install Windows on my MacBook. Heresy, I hear you cry. But I’m on holidays, and I’m bored. Because Leopard comes with Boot Camp, I thought I’d give that a try, but it turns out that you need an original XP/ Vista disk - which [...]

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Leopard Update 10.5.2 to be Released Friday

Wednesday, 23rd January, 2008 – 21:12

According to InsanelyMac, Apple have just released a new build of the 10.5.2 update to developers, with the public release due to be made on Friday 25th January.

I’ve been waiting for this release for quite a while now, and I’ll be hoping that SMB support is fixed, so I won’t have to go through a [...]

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