Month: March 2005

Updated mozilla.org bug requesting addition of Yahoo Search Sidebar to Mozilla Update

I updated the bug requesting that they add my Yahoo! Search Sidebar to Mozilla Update. All I had to do was provide them with a direct link to the .xpi file on my new sourceforge project page...

C++Programming

stlfilt

stlfilt is a nice package that you run as a frontend to g++ (or other compilers) and it collects all of those nasty, long STL errors and warnings with a bazillion template parameters and parses them into something that humans who...

Rants

I hate sites that break the Back button

One of the most irritating things a web site can do is to break the expected behavior of the Back button in my browser. So by using inappropriate caching settings, a site can make it so that the Back button refetches content,...

Windows

Windows XP and WiFi problem solved

After mucking around a bit with my wireless settings (in efforts to get WPA working with WDS with Sveasoft Alchemy with my new 5 port switch), I found my wireless malfunctioning in a most bizarre and highly annoying way. The...

TiVo

Finally got both TiVos networked

It took a while, but both of my TiVos are now on my home network. The first problem was that origianlly I had my WAP54G in client mode, but that only supports one wired client. So I had to install Sveasoft's Alchemy firmware on...

Windows

IrfanView Shell Extension

IrfanView Shell Extension is an incredibly simple but useful freeware Windows program. It extends the excellent IrfanView image tool so that you can quickly do some of the more common operations, such as file format conversions,...

GeneralWindows

eCleaner

eCleaner is a freeware program that is used for cleaning up long email exchanges with lots of '>' characters in them. Here's a review from About.com. Since the author of eCleaner isn't really maintaining it anymore and his...