I’m sure I’m late to this party…but what the heck, I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 700m) and it’s great! The laptop, which was a nifty little machine 4 years ago (12″ screen, 2Gig proc, 1Gig RAM) was so slow it was useless – I mean, it took 30 seconds [...]
Getting those annoying “Bad Length” messages with Firefox on Leopard? Here’s the fix:
Go into System Preferences
Select “Accounts”
Uncheck the “Enable Parental Controls” checkbox.
Firefox will now work with db info. Huzzah!
Firefox is an unbelievable memory hog – which is why it crashes a lot. We all love it for its extensions/add-ons (I’m a big Foxmarks fan myself), but they frequently cause memory leaks and lead to crashes; one of the worst culprits is the extremely useful (for developers, that is) Firebug. They recommend turning it [...]