A year ago yesterday, a funeral was held for IE6, the browser from Microsoft that had a strong grip on its market share despite its age, limitations, and superior replacements. Regardless of the funeral, IE6 continues to be used. IE6countdown.com is a website run by Microsoft to monitor the market share of IE6 until it is below 1% (it is currently at 12% worldwide).10 years ago … [Read more...]
Video of Installing Windows 1.0 and Upgrading Through Every Version Since
Using VMWare and an unknown amount of time, an individual chose to install MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Fortunately, he recorded the process for us to gain some observations regarding the trend in Windows upgrade process and backwards compatibility … [Read more...]
Drip, drip, drip, drip! Four Independent Sites Posting Leaks
Has the hype of Wikileaks finally died down? The discussion of making a movie based on WikiLeaks or Julian Assange, the Editor-in-Chief of Wikileaks, is still rolling right along. Wikileaks has received a lot of attention from the media previously for leaking Iraq and Afghan war-related documents and the USA's diplomatic cables. As a result of some of this "attention", the … [Read more...]
‘You Either Die A Hero Or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain’ Makes Sense To Aaron Barr Now
The line from The Dark Knight, "'You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" probably makes sense to former HBGary Federal CEO, Aaron Barr now. At least according to Twitter, @aaronbarr is similar to a few Anonymous accounts: Previous coverage of this story: Stephen Colbert’s Take On The Anonymous-HBGary-WikiLeaks Story Must Read: The … [Read more...]
Integrating A File Browser Into A Website
For the past week, I've been on a mission to come up with a proof of concept to demonstrate that I could convert an organization's site from Joomla! to WordPress and simplify the site's back-end. I plugged away and got everything pretty comparable on the front-end. One of the sticking points that I came across, however, was Joomla's Docman plugin, a very thoroughly integrated … [Read more...]