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If you've been following the Firefox 3 news, you are no doubt aware that today (June 17, 2008) is the official release date for Firefox 3. Unfortunately, when Mozilla made the download available at 1 PM Eastern, the flood of traffic made the Mozilla servers virtually unreachable.

The initial rush …

Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. just gave a great cable tag definition on the NANOG mailing list.

The tags should have a short (two or three word) description, the authority for the patch (person's name or position, order number, or trouble ticket number) and where the [other]{.underline} end of the …

After a recent trip, I've misplaced the wall charger for my Motorola Q. It's likely that the silly thing is just in a bag somewhere in the house, but my wife thinks it may be at her office. None of that really matters — the silly thing is missing!

Although I …

My pager went off Saturday morning with the following alert: "/dev/hda6 is read-only!"

I can't remember the last time I received this alert. The filesystem in question is the home of this web site, as well as a few others. Being read-only isn't a major problem since most of …

As previously mentioned, automatic software updates was one of the most exciting improvements included in the previous release of Camino. As expected, Camino was kind enough to pop up and tell me a new version was available — Camino 1.6.1.

This minor update is mainly aimed at stability. Several …

Ladies and gentlemen, say "Hello" to a brand new Camino! Camino 1.6 has been released with some slick new features.

One that I'm really looking forward to is automatic software updates. Until now, Camino only checked for an update on startup. Considering how infrequently I have to restart my …

I've been having problems with Google Chat (in Gmail) this afternoon. I decided that logging out of Gmail and restarting Firefox might be a helpful exercise. When I returned to Gmail, I noticed that something was wrong: everything was right.

For some odd reason, I seem to have been zapped …

The good folks at Mozilla keep plugging away at Firefox 3. Now Firefox 3 Beta 5 is ready for download.

The two big ticket items for Firefox 3 Beta 5 are improved OS integration (Windows, OS X, and Linux) and increased Javascript performance. If you are one of those people …

It's a new day and new Firefox!

Okay, so the latest version of Firefox really isn't all that new (the original version of Firefox 2 was released way back in 2006). But, Firefox 2.0.0.13 does include some critical security updates over previous versions of Firefox 2. Another …

I'm not a fan of Firefox 3 Beta 4's new navigation buttons. I don't really use these buttons, but that huge Back button keeps distracting me. Thankfully there's a way to fix this, but it's not in the Preferences menu.

The key to getting a more reasonable set of navigation …

Let me start off by saying that I really don't have a lot of experience with Lotus Notes. I was able to suffer through using the client for about a week before I finally begged the Notes admin to forward my mail to my Gmail account. As an email client …

A few days ago, I talked about Mozilla Prism and how it came up short in a few key areas. At the end of that post, I briefly mentioned Fluid as an alternative for Mac OS X users.

In response to that brief introduction, Slaptijack reader Stephen has put together …

(Let me point out at the very beginning that I am aware that Mozilla Prism is still in beta. This commentary is specifically based on Mozila Prism 0.8 for Mac OS X.)

I love the idea of Mozilla Prism.

As an avid user of Gmail and other web-based applications …

Choosing a language in which to develop your custom Nagios plugins is pretty easy. You have two roads you can go down: compiled or scripting.

If you decide to build plugins using a compiled language, just about any will do. Generally speaking, C is the usual choice for something like …

As you might recall, I had previously taken umbrage with Cisco's inability to forward a range of ports to a particular host. Many readers have offered suggestions and links to other documents around the Internet offering various solutions, but none of them really sat quite right with me.

In hindsight …