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Firefox 4 Beta 1: Installing Non Compatible Extensions

If you need to install extensions which are not compatible with Firefox 4 Beta 1 you need to make the following changes:

  • open page about:config
  • right-click anywhere on page and select New -> Boolean
  • Enter preference name as extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0b
  • click OK
  • enter value as False
  • click OK

You should now be able to install extension compatible with older version of Firefox, even though many will not work.

WARNING: Adding extension which are not compatible with Firefox 4 Beta 1 could break you Firefox Install and you will probably not get any support from the developers.

2010
07/08
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Robert Wallace
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Wine development release 1.2-rc6 available

The Wine development release 1.2-rc6 is now available.

What’s new in this release (see below for details):

  • Many translation updates.
  • A lot of bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/site/git for details.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.

via WineHQ.

2010
07/02
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Robert Wallace
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Upgraded to WordPress 3.0

Just upgraded to WordPress 3.0 (without a backup… I like living on the edge). Not much to say yet, but I do like having the updates option under Dashboard which lists WordPress, Plug-in, and Theme updates available.

Anyway, I’ll try to write up anything interesting I find along the way…

2010
06/18
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Robert Wallace
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Parted Magic 4.11 Released

A new release of Parted Magic had just been announced bumping up the version from 4.10 to 4.11.

What is Parted Magic?

Parted Magic is a Linux Live CD using GParted and Parted to handle hard disk partitioning tasks. Parted Magic also includes other great applications like Clonezilla, Partimage, TestDisk, Truecrypt, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, etc… making it a great Rescue/Utility Live CD

What’s new in version 4.11?

Updates:

ext3grep-0.10.2, fsarchiver-0.6.10, gdisk-0.6.7, hdparm-9.28, lftp-4.0.7, lzip-1.10, ms-sys-2.1.5, openssh-5.5p1, gencfs-1.0.2, gsshfs-1.0.3, sgsearch-1.1.3, chromium-6.0.424.0, gsshfs-1.0.1, linux-2.6.32.15, parted-2.3, syslinux-3.86, mc-20100509_git, ntfs-3g-2010.5.22, super_grub_disk_1.98s1, udev-157

Removals:

xarchiver

Additions:

file-roller-2.30.0, lm_sensors-3.1.1, perl-5.10.1, dbrl-1.9.5-79, clonezilla-2.3.5-21, rarlinux-3.9.3, unrar-3.9.7, vmfs-tools-0.2.1

Where can I download or find more information?

2010
06/14
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Robert Wallace
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toto – git powered blog engine

Just came across toto [http://github.com/cloudhead/toto], a minimalistic git powered blog engine. Using git as the datasource for you blog engine is a really great idea since all of you posts will be Version Controlled using git, and you can use github.com if you don’t have access to a git repository.

Qouting the REAME from toto

philosophy

Everything that can be done better with another tool should be, but one should not have too much pie to stay fit. In other words, toto does away with web frameworks or DSLs such as sinatra, and is built right on top of rack. There is no database or ORM either, we use plain text files.

Toto was designed to be used with a reverse-proxy cache, such as Varnish. This makes it an ideal candidate for heroku.

Oh, and everything that can be done with git, is.

If you think about it, a VCS (git, hg, svn, etc) makes for a great datasource for many other application, all you need is a repository and your application now has built in version control. Also, you eliminate the need to have a full blown DB to power your application. Got a few projects were I could apply this to.

Still not sure if I want to keep WordPress or roll my own (using django). Any suggestions?

2010
02/11
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Robert Wallace
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