Essential Firefox Add-ons for Internet Addicts

Here’s a quick list of my favourite “can’t live without” firefox extensions. ColorZilla  – In-page Colorpicker / Advanced EyedropperFireftp – A fully featured FTP Add-onTab Mix Plus – Better Tab control & Session SupportWeb Developer – A brilliant array of tools for Web developers, can’t live without it.Mouse Gestures – Can’t surf without mouse gesturesInfoRSS …

Putty -> CentOS / RHEL Termcap linewrap settings

I have this weird line wrapping issue when using putty on CentOS so that when path names exceed 80 characters, it wraps onto the same line and deletes the text showing me my current path. I am no Termcap guru, but the old-school Unix Termcap gurus here at work gave me this fix that they …

Troubleshooting Slow Logins on Windows 2000 Terminal Services

Troubleshooting Slow Logins on Windows 2000 Terminal Services with roaming profiles / Outlook freezing when opening an attachment from Exchange Server (On Terminal Services and Fat Client). How are these 2 problems related? First let me describe the environment. Windows 2000 Active Directory 1x Raid 1 / Raid 5 with 2x Pentium 3 / 1gb …

Firefox has finally won me over..

Last week, I finally bowed down to the power that is Firefox. So where have I been, you may ask? I have been hanging my Internet based washing on Opera (Linux) and Maxthon (Windows) for the last couple of years. Let me explain why: First at work, I (still) use Windows 2000 as my workstation. …