I’ve been a longtime fan and user of Mozilla Firefox. It’s been far from perfect but the extensions had me hooked. As for IE, I’ve been a longtime hater. But that’s been changing recently. But that hierarchy has been turned on it's head in the last month and my browser usage has changed. Read the rest »
Internet Explorer 8 Gets It Right
I’ve forever ignored a problem Internet Explorer had when displaying this site. It displayed correctly (meaning the way the CSS said to) in every browser I used except IE. Now IE 8 gets it right (at least the IE8 I’m running on Windows 7). The problem was the way IE displayed the picture I put in the top left of many posts. This is how IE 7 and earlier used to display them. Notice the text starting at the bottom of the picture. This is the way every other browser [...] Read the rest »
Microsoft Security Updates
Microsoft released nine security updates this past Tuesday. When it came time to run Automatic Update on my Windows XP SP2 virtual machine (running under Parallels) I got 12 updates, so Microsoft pushed more than the security updates. The updates broke down as follows (all links are to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article number listed): Security Update for Media Player 11 (KB936782) Security Update for IE 7 on Windows XP (KB938127) Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (KB928365) Cumulative Security Update for IE7 on Windows XP (KB937143) Security Update [...] Read the rest »
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2007
It’s the second Tuesday of July and that means patches from Microsoft. This month brings six patches, three rated critical, two important, and one moderate. Only five patches are for desktop software and Windows Vista also gets its own unique patch although it’s the one rated moderate. Of these, only the .NET patches and the Vista patch were needed on my PCs. In addition to these security updates I also received a update (through automatic update) related to Intel processors. This was called a “microcode reliability update”. My test PCs [...] Read the rest »
I’m Back – IE6 Has To Go
Work, normal summer activities and family obligations has kept me offline for the month of July so far. Even worse, it’s kept me from having fun with these contraptions. So we’ll get back into the swing of things with a rant about Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. If your viewing this site using IE 6 you’ll see what I mean. You’re missing the page links in the top right of the header and you’ve got an extra, but empty, sidebar making for an extra wide page. And that’s after some tweaks [...] Read the rest »
Patch Tuesday for June 2007
Microsoft released six security patches today. Four of them were rated critical, one important and one moderate. There are patches for all supported desktop OS platforms, Internet Explorer, a couple mail apps and for a couple versions of Visio. There aren’t any Office patches. The critical desktop patches are: MS07-031 for Windows XP SP2, Windows XP x64 and Windows XP x64 SP2. It’s rated as “important” for Windows 2000 SP4. Earlier versions of Windows 2000 and XP may be affected but aren’t supported by Microsoft. On Windows XP this vulnerability [...] Read the rest »
IE Contributes To the Frustrating Journey
These past couple of days have reminded me why the tag line of this site is “A Frustrating Journey.” The first reminder was while working on an update to this site I thought everything was all set. FireFox, Safari and Camino (all on my Mac) liked the site and I was simply adding a widget lots of other people already used. I’m not naming the widget because I really don’t think the widget is the problem. What would happen is the widget would appear fine, but everything after the next [...] Read the rest »
Patch Tuesday for May 2007
Mac users take note – It’s the second Tuesday of May and that means it’s patch day for Microsoft. Microsoft released 7 critical update bulletins. Three of them affect Office 2004 for Mac so if you’re a Office 2004 for Mac user read on along with just about every Windows user. Two of the seven bulletins are for servers only. MS07-026 is for Exchange Server, including the latest version. MS07-029 is for the RPC interface to DNS server and affects their server software. That leaves 5 bulletins for desktops. Three [...] Read the rest »
Caution to the Wind – Internet Explorer 7
Microsoft released Internet Explorer for Windows XP on October 18th. Time to venture forward on The OS Quest and install it. So, brewed a pot of coffee, added a little extra, and went for it. Read the rest »
