Looks like WordPress 2.1 (code name Ella) was released a little less than an hour ago. Look at me with my breaking geeky news.
Anything good in the new version? Let’s take a too-much-time-on-my-hands point-by-point look, just because I can.
Dreamhost recently started something new where they are reducing the amount of disk space and bandwidth that you get with each hosting plan every day. For example, right now for the “Level 1″ hosting plan, it says you get 194.5 GB of disk space, and “On Jan 15th starting Disk drops to: (Sign up [...]
I installed wipfw today, because I needed a simple Windows firewall that could do egress filtering to block traffic to certain external IP addresses, and with my Windows XP SP1 setup, that’s just not possible. SP2 adds some better outgoing filtering to the firewall, but you still can’t just plug in an IP address.
But [...]
I’ve had a weird problem ever since upgrading to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, version 2.0.0.1. The browser’s CPU usage would keep going up the longer that Firefox was running.
So after a day or two of the browser being open, it would be using 20% to 30% of the CPU. I’ve seen [...]