Archive for September, 2011

Twitter Posts for week ending 2011-09-30

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Firefox 7.0 Released

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Oh for gods sake Mozilla, the latest version of Firefox has the following changes:

  • Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
  • Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems
  • Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
  • The ‘http://’ URL prefix is now hidden by default
  • Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
  • Added support for the Web Timing specification
  • Enhanced support for MathML
  • The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8
  • Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
  • Fixed several stability issues
  • Fixed several security issues

Firefox 7.0 Release Notes

No Carbon Tax

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

This is a rather hilarious audio modification of an Anti Carbon Tax advertisement that was made by the Australian Trade and Industry Alliance. It’s based on a running joke from the South Park episode “Goobacks”.

South Park: Goobacks Episode Summary – TV.com

Waze Cartouche Full Screen Greasemonkey Script

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

I’ve put together a very simple script that will make the new Waze Cartouche (Papyrus) maximizes it’s screen usage. Now this may have some side effects so I’m not giving you any warranty on this script. It works for Chrome & Firefox (with Greasemonkey add-in) for me. If you want to leave any feedback please do so at userscripts.org, as I have disabled the comments on this post to keep all feedback in one place.

Waze Cartouche Full Screen

Twitter Posts for week ending 2011-09-23

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Twitter Posts for week ending 2011-09-16

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Mythbusting the NBN

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Engineering Week Lecture, Mythbusting the National Broadband Network.

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2011

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2011 has been released:

  • Vulnerability in WINS Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2571621)
  • Vulnerability in Windows Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2570947)
  • Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2587505)
  • Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2587634)
  • Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2451858)

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2011

Twitter Posts for week ending 2011-09-09

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Firefox 6.0.2 Released

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Another update, more root certificate changes & a fix for .gov.uk domains: