old stuff from October, 2006

more coming

Tuesday, 31 October 2006 1:29 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet

i wouldn’t have believed it until i saw the sreenshot on the left. 11,562 spam. wow. someone’s been working out. it is a shame that most of the work these guys did will be all for naught. ha! i’m sorry to say it but you guys lead an empty, useless life.

spam is up

Friday, 27 October 2006 11:32 am by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, software

i started an experiment a few days ago. i noticed that my spam mail has been inching up in quantity. its not uncommon to receive spam these days so now i get to notice how much is coming in. i took a screenshot of my mail folders last 23rd of october. those 250 million+ of [...]

windows defender

Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:11 am by noel
posted in software

its free (sort of) and microsoft released the final already. its been in beta for sooo long. to download defender you’d be ask to download a validation tool to validate your copy of windows. i think i was asked this because i was using firefox 2.0. the validation tool is a 1.35 meg download. do [...]

firefox and acid2

Wednesday, 25 October 2006 1:43 pm by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

firefox 2.0 is officially out. time to throw some acid2 in the mix. here’s what i got. no. it still doesn’t pass it but the rendered page certainly looks better than the one rendered by ie7. although i do have to give points to ie7 for making the fonts look better making the page easier [...]

css changes for ie7

Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:30 am by noel
posted in internet, web development

there are definitely changes in how ie7 would handle css. they are detailed in the ie development blog. some of these changes do correct how css is implemented in ie7 but they also break the hacks that developers made to correct the css implementation in ie6. like the chicken and egg thing. makes for interesting [...]