Author Archives: aebrahim

Mozilla Digital Memory Bank

Posted on June 22, 2008 by aebrahim

The folks over at the Mozilla Digital Memory Bank kindly took the time to interview me last November. I just noticed that the interview transcript has been posted online last month.

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Firefox 3 and Hotmail Incompatibility?

Posted on June 20, 2008 by aebrahim

I tried to log into my Hotmail account today with Firefox 3.0, and I got the following error: Clearing the cookies and cache doesn’t help. When I log in via IE7, it works fine. This problem started to happen after … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3.0 Released

Posted on June 18, 2008 by aebrahim

After a lot of hard work by the Mozilla team and tons of volunteers, Firefox 3.0 has been released. Help set the Guinness World Records for downloads by downloading today. Personally, my favourite new feature is the AwesomeBar. What’s yours?

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Google Groups and FeedDemon Woes

Posted on June 8, 2008 by aebrahim

I’ve been having a couple of issues recently with a Google Groups hosted list that I manage, for which no solutions seem to be available. Issue #1 – Google Groups Atom Feed id and link attribute broken I’ve detailed this … Continue reading →

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Guest Internet Access via FON Routers

Posted on June 3, 2008 by aebrahim

A couple of weeks ago I was talking to Yusuf about setting up wireless internet access at my workplace for guests. In the past we had them plug into our wired network, but the downside of this is that unless … Continue reading →

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ATI Mobility Radeon Drivers from Dell

Posted on June 2, 2008 by aebrahim

A couple of days ago I wrote about some headaches upgrading to Windows XP SP3. This was related to my ability to rotate my screen being scuttled by the SP3 update. Microsoft said I needed a driver update to restore … Continue reading →

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Windows XP SP3 Update Gotchas

Posted on May 30, 2008 by aebrahim

I took the plunge and updated my machine to Windows XP SP3 today, a good month after general release. I don’t like to install Microsoft software when it’s first released, because more often than not, there are too many unknown … Continue reading →

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Hillary

Posted on May 29, 2008 by aebrahim

A friend of mine wrote a blog entry about Hillary and I felt like writing a response because there are a lot of things I don’t agree with. Hillary’s campaign has not been one waged on ethics and grassroots support … Continue reading →

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Mailing Lists and Email Deliverability

Posted on May 11, 2008 by aebrahim

I subscribe to a number of moderated lists, and one of the poor practices that I see is untimely moderation of email. When list messages are not moderated quickly, there are two major pitfalls that end users can experience of … Continue reading →

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Is Apple Wireless Friendly?

Posted on May 11, 2008 by aebrahim

With the great success of the iPhone and iPod Touch, you’d think Apple would be sitting pretty as the king of wireless networking. Plus, Apple has a reputation for making relatively complicated tasks more user friendly by having more streamlined … Continue reading →

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