And it was fun! I was really tired but after lots of sleep today fortunately not anymore.

So what's coming up next on the site? Probably the installer. It still needs some working on, and probably also some testers, but I'm sure it'll be fine. I still doubt if I have to do windows 98 support - win9x doesn't support services and would require some messing around to get working. I wonder if anyone still uses windows 9x - time for a poll!

Among my variegated responsibilities at work, I am in charge of maintaining a productive network environment. At the top of the corporation's priorities is a clean, uncompromised desktop for all employees, which is made excruciatingly difficult to maintain due to widespread usage of AOL, Internet Explorer, and a host of insecure browsing habits.

I was given the go-ahead for migrating to FireFox. It was initially heralded as the best thing since Adware; far and wide you could hear the "Ooos" and "ahhhs" especially in reference to how fast FF rendered corporate sites. The first week of zero malware on the 50-odd workstations was cause for a company-wide paid lunch by the boss.

The FireFox Folding@Home Team is *ONE* WEEK* (7 days) from our goal of overtaking the G4TechTV Team~!!! Here's the stats: [EOC Team Overtake]

For those who do not know, I am a FireFox Power User (TM). At work I have over 20 extensions installed, generally as part of a web development system. I also have massive memory woes :-/ At work I must close FireFox at least every 3 hours since it uses upwards of 300MB of RAM with 30 tabs open. At home, with an uptime measured in months, FireFox *averages* 600 MB of memory; necessitating the purchase of another 1 GB DIMM :-/ See comment #41 [spreadthefox.net] for the gory details.

I've been using daily builds for about the last 2 months. I upgrade every time the changelog seems to have more fixes than new bugs...basicaly once a week. I was insanely interested in the patches after 2/28 that *supposedly* fixed the tab memory leak, as this is the bane of my FF experience. However I never realized any improvements, and subsequently, the guy revoked his patch as it didn't fix and indeed broke a great many more things.

Google 302 Exploit Knocks Sites Out - clsc writes "The exploit: Redirect via 302 to another page of your choice, then watch as the URL of your your redirect script replaces the URL of that carefully selected page in Google's search results. Once this happens, feel free to redirect any visitor that is not Googlebot to any other page of your choice. Also applies to other search engines as well (not Yahoo! though)." [Slashdot]

I already noticed this thing when moving the site to spreadthefox.net (but didn't see any way of exploiting this): Google showed up results with firefoxfah.sf.net (the old domain) but with content from the new site. firefoxfah.sf.net has a 301 (Moved Permanently) redirect.

I'm going to London tomorrow - won't be for long though, at Friday I'll be back already. I'll have to get up at 4 am...