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• Doug 9:44 am on March 22, 2008 | 1 | # |
  Tags: Apple, camino, Open Source, safari, Software, Stuff I Use, Sysadmin

  How can it be that by version 3.1 of this browser, that Safari still doesn’t support saving tabs between sessions? Sure, you can do it with various SIMBL hacks — but I have a strict policy these days of not running hacks or haxies on my systems.

  Saving tabs between sessions is simply a default and necessary behavior of a modern browser. When I close and reopen a browser (voluntarily or not) it should at least give me the option of returning to the same state as when I closed it. Safari still can’t do this. Safari still can’t set the focus in Gmail appropriately. It might be that there are a number of great features in 3.1, but I’m not going to end up seeing them, because Safari still can’t get basic stuff right. Until it does, I’ll stick with Camino.

   

• Doug 9:41 am on March 22, 2008 | 0 | # |
  Tags: china, computing, cyberwar, hacking, In the news, military, security, World

  Anyone who doesn’t believe that this sort of thing isn’t a major component of warfare and covert operations just hasn’t been paying attention. The Chinese are getting very good at it, the US and Europe seem to have finally recognized the necessity but seem behind the Chinese in their efforts.

  American capabilities also seem primarily defensively oriented thus far, in keeping with our paranoia about “homeland security.” It doesn’t seem like American military planners have yet realized the importance of offensive cyberwarfare and how it is going to be used, much like air power was against Serbia, to impact both governments and NGOs without having to put boots on the ground or drop bombs.

  Update 3/25/08: And more possible Chinese or Chinese-backed attacks on the Save Darfur NGO.

   

• Doug 1:07 pm on March 8, 2008 | 0 | # |
  Tags: OS X, Software, Work

  …the joys of no longer having to use Lotus Notes is no longer having to be concerned about using a web browser that’s compatible. It’s sad to say, but I have better luck reliably using Outlook Web Access on OS X than I did with Domino Web Access.

  Neither one of them is nearly as well designed or useful as Gmail and Google Calendar, though.

   

• Doug 1:01 pm on March 8, 2008 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Second Life

  I logged on to Second Life today to pay my parcel rent, and was prompted to download a new client. I understand why, but after getting used to the responsiveness of World of Warcraft, SL just seems so painfully slow. It’s always going to be slower since it can’t load textures and the like from disk the first time you encounter them, but I sure wish there could be some more significant optimization done.

  The fact that the new client broke my (expensive) animated horse doesn’t help either.

   

• Doug 7:02 pm on March 7, 2008 | 0 | # |
  Tags: WordPress

  I’m giving some consideration to switching weblog engines, due to the continual parade of security issues with WordPress. I’ve given thought to both blosxom and Tinderbox because of their simplicity and static HTML rendering, and the fact that by default neither deals with comments and trackbacks (generally nothing but a source of irritation and spam).

  Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be any easy means for extracting the few thousand posts I have here as plain text for easy import into one of these other systems. Unless something becomes obvious, I’m probably stuck, which sucks.

   

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