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MS .net Plugin automatically installed in Firefox
Unbelieveable – they did it again… Microsoft really seems to have massive problems when it comes down to “what users need” and “how to implement it”. Latest example I just learned of – the .net click-once thingy bitty extension that is installed AUTOMATICALLY and WITHOUT any knowledge of the user for Firefox. In a MSDN [...]
Fix Firefox
For a long time, I was encountering problems with Firefox on Windows. Especially on Ajax-sites, but also on various other sites, Firefox all of a sudden seemed to load and load and load forever – without even doing anything… The only possibility was then to shut down Firefox and kill the task in the Taskmanager. [...]
Windows XP SP3
I installed XP Service Pack 3 today. Two things happened: First of all, XPize, the nice little program that tweaked the look and feel of XP to something a bit more…. modern, does not work with SP3. This is confirmed; and after the XPize project apparently has been death for a while, signs look good [...]
Windows Media player doesn’t play all files
I have some strange issues recently with my windows media player – it does not play all video files any more (I have no problems on KDE with kmplayer, though). Turns out that this seems to be quite a common error…. The web-help of Microsoft points to this page, and it says something about iD3 [...]
CUPS and Samba integration
My server is up and running for quite some time now – but still, I have no way of printing when my client is running Windows. It is time to integrate CUPS and Samba. So, we start off with the official Gentoo Samba documentation; here are the sections out of /etc/samba/smb.conf: # This is the [...]
