Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Spam, lovely spam

Posted by michael on March 21st, 2007 under General
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Ok, I’ve had to disable comments on the IE7 for linux post, the amount of spam that’s coming through is quite insane. Today there were 149 spam comments in my moderation queue. This site alone is eating up a large chunk of bandwidth on my host, I think (note: think) that it’s due to the [...]

Delay

Posted by michael on January 26th, 2007 under General
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The rest of the articles have been delayed; unfortunately work caught up with me. The JQuery/AJAX is half-written and should be up tomorrow along with another article.

Flash Player 9 for Linux

Posted by michael on January 17th, 2007 under General
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Finally, Linux users of all shapes and sizes can rejoice in not being rejected by sites that make use of Flash 8/9-only content. Adobe has released Flash Player 9 Final for Linux.
Announcement:
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/01/flash_player_9_for_linux_x86.html
Download:
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer/
x86 Linux for now, by the way.

Analysis of the slashdot effect

Posted by michael on January 9th, 2007 under Fun, General
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Yesterday’s IE7 on Linux post was (still is, for now) featured on the front-page of Slashdot, and subsequently experienced quite a sudden surge in web-traffic. Now, if there’s one thing that’s great about a large data set, it must be the ability to crudely analyse it and make incorrect assumptions!
Most of this is based on [...]

Internet Explorer 7 on Linux

Posted by michael on January 7th, 2007 under General, Hacks
 •  67 Comments

Updates

Sérgio from IEs4Linux wrote to say that the latest beta has fixed the black-box image problem, and also has no WGA requirements - so I think it’s best that everyone moves over to using his installer, as mine was a once-off and probably won’t be maintained! Thanks for the interest shown by everyone!
You can find [...]