Walkie Talkie
Posted on November 9, 2009, under Entertainment.
“A Time for Choosing”
Posted on November 2, 2009, under Current Events, General.
“A Time for Choosing” by Ronald Reagan
Windows 7 – Homegroups
Posted on October 25, 2009, under Web Dev/Tech.
Finally! Easy home networking. I bought a Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack (3 licenses), set up a Homegroup to share files and a printer, and I’m loving it. Super easy.
Presidential control of the private Internet
Posted on August 28, 2009, under General, Security, Web Dev/Tech.
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet | Politics and Law – CNET News.
“Translation: If your company is deemed “critical,” a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.”
Yikes.
Ronald Reagan on Socialized Medicine
Posted on August 14, 2009, under Current Events.
New security risk in SSL implementations
More holes found in Web’s SSL security protocol.
It appears most modern browsers are susceptible to a simple man-in-the-middle attack on SSL certificates, meaning your encrypted browsing sessions can be intercepted.
The article lists Firefox 3.5 as the only modern browser not affected by the attack.
‘The Longest Day of My Life’ – D-Day Survivor Recalls Tragic Day
Posted on June 6, 2009, under Current Events.
UBCD for Windows
Posted on May 31, 2009, under Web Dev/Tech.
We went out to see some family this weekend, and they were having some issues with their WinXP computer. I was thinking about taking a Linux Live CD, but ended up giving the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows a try. It is pretty slick. You have to have your own copy of the Windows XP install files to create the boot disk ISO, but after that you can configure all types of software to be included on the CD image. Worth checking out as a handy tool to have lying around.
Memorial Day 2009
Posted on May 25, 2009, under Current Events.
Delicious Toolbar hangs IE8
Posted on April 27, 2009, under Web Dev/Tech.
Update 9/5/2009: The newest version of the IE Toolbar released recently works now. WOOHOO!
I’m running into a problem with the Delicious Toolbar 1.12.273.0 causing IE8 to hang on Windows XP SP3. It is super annoying, as I would like to use the Favorite Tags functionality on this machine.
worksforme – On Vista
I have the Delicious Toolbar running with IE8 on Vista with no problems. However for some reason the other computer I use running WinXP is choking on the Delicious addon.
Issue
After I install the Delicious Toolbar, I can open IE8 for one session. After closing the browser, the IE window disappears like everything is normal. When I try to open IE again, the chrome starts to load, but the window hangs. My home page doesn’t open, and the IE functions are frozen.
Behind the scenes, there are two iexplorer.exe processes, and one DeliciousManager.exe process still running. IE8 becomes responsive again once I kill the DeliciousManager.exe process in the Task Manager. Once I kill the DeliciousManager.exe process, the iexplorer.exe processes are freed up and end normally. Then I can start a new web browser session, until I run into the issue again when I close IE.
Attempt 1 – Disable potential conflicts
I tried disabling all other IE addons, setting exclusions in antivirus for real-time scans on the Delicious Toolbar data directories, and disabling the firewall. The DeliciousManager.exe task would still hang IE8.
Any Ideas?
Does anyone out there have any other ideas? If I find a solution, I will post a follow-up here.
