The first update that Firefox tried to download and install failed. But it then tried again with a full download, which worked. What was a little strange is that Firefox opened a browser window after the failed install; but that makes sense considering that I didn’t have to try again with the full version, and…Continue Reading…
I forget where I read this, but I’ve been wanting to blog about it since last Thursday, when I first started researching about Ruby on Rails. It’s an awesome language, though I haven’t had a chance to code in it yet. It’s fairly new, and version 1.1 was only recently released. I emailed my computer…Continue Reading…
Yahoo only wants US traffic for YPN, and the best way to do that is to do geotargeting on your site. I’m now doing this for Invision Plus, serving both AdSense and YPN for US visitors, and just AdSense for everyone else. Here are the instructions for geotargeting Yahoo Publisher Network ads for US visitors…Continue Reading…
512 bytes is a very small amount of code (it fits on a single sheet of paper!), compared to the megabytes of code contained in software like Windows, Internet Explorer or Internet Information Server. Three bugs within these 512 bytes compromised the security completely – a bunch of hackers found them within days after first…Continue Reading…
Google Desktop Search has been improving at an insane pace. With most new versions, there is no announcement, no changelog, no version number. The setup file has grown in size from 1,353 KB on 8/24/2005 to 1,601 KB today, and this is all Google Desktop Search 3. I wanted to move my index file from…Continue Reading…