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 [...]
It looks like Google’s Webmaster Tools are acting up tonight. It’s taking forever for the main webmaster tools page to load in the first place — approximately 90 seconds — and then the information looks pretty outdated and just wrong.
Large Tabs
Firefox 2.0’s tabs are way too wide for me. I want to be able to see all of my tabs on the screen at once. With 2.0’s default tab size and my usual window size, I can only see nine tabs at once (yes, I need a bigger monitor that can do [...]
I noticed an LRecvTrap.exe process running on my computer, and didn’t know what it was. So, like I usually do in this case, I searched for it on Google. But for this one there are absolutely no results on Google. So I looked into it myself, and I’m posting this so that [...]
I had some Windows XP icon weirdness going on today. About a week ago all my icons went blank. That happens once in a while, and I know that I need to reboot to fix it, so I was just waiting for a convenient time to reboot.
Today I finally did that. But [...]
Wow, have I been out of the geeky technology loop or what? I knew that 500GB hard drives were out and available, but I had no idea that there was a Seagate 750GB SATA hard drive out there and shipping.
I keep thinking I’d love to get three or four good-sized hard drives to replace [...]
According to the eRightSoft web site:
SUPER © (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) a GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora and the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. Player and Encoder of various types of multimedia files.
So, first of all, is the name supposed to be SUPER, and the © is just always around to make sure [...]