This too shall pass.
I ran into this problem where I was unable to install Firebug in Firefox. It would act like it was installing, Firefox would restart, but the plugin was simply not there.
A little research revealed there could be a variety of reasons for this, but for me it turned out Avast! antivirus was preventing it from working.
I disabled the Network service in Avast! long enough to try again, and it all worked.
Hopefully this will help someone else who runs into the problem.
I discovered an excellent article listing some of the little-known features, disabled by default, that phpMyAdmin has. Check it out:
http://blog.ht4.ca/2009/12/29/hidden-phpmyadmin-features/
Some of the more useful ones include the Query History and Query Bookmarking. There is also a Designer Mode which lets you see the relations amongst your tables and more. I wish I had known about these, oh, 8 years ago!
This sign has an entirely different meaning if you are a fan if Battlestar Galactica.
R2-D2 was found wandering about in the latest Star Trek movie. This is pretty darned cool, and makes a good Star Trek movie even better. Now I’ll have to buy it on DVD when it comes out, just so I can pause it and see this for myself.
After eating lunch at a local restaurant yesterday, I noticed that when I was signing my receipt they had printed my whole credit card number on there. I hadn’t seen that happen in years, and I immediately scratched it out. I happened to be with a group of cyber security guys, and they were all in disbelief as well.
It would be very easy for a thief to pick up your receipt just after you leave, then go home and have an online shopping spree. The server or anyone else handling your receipt could do the same thing. Continue reading “Credit Cards: Fees, Minimum Amounts, and Your Rights”
I stopped by Asheville Parking Services today to renew my parking pass, and there on the waiting room table were all these magazines about, well, parking. Who woulda thunk?
If Senator John McCain has way by defeating the FCC’s move to support Net Neutrality with his “Internet Freedom Act“, this is what your Internet plan options could easily look like:
Say “goodbye” to experiencing the World Wide Web as you know it, and say “hello” to experiencing it as you do your cable TV, with restrictions on what you get unless you want to pay more, and unless the content providers pay more to be listed there.
As usual, the notion that a “government takeover” and a “marxist plot” are being bantered around to generate support for McCain’s bill through fear and ignorance. It goes without saying that McCain was the biggest beneficiary of telco/ISP money in 2008, to the tune of $894,379.
Picture courtesy of some quink at Reddit. Click the pic for the full-size image.
