Opera 8.5 is now free
Opera has removed the banner ads and licensing requirement in their 8.5 browser…it’s free. From their site: Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee…. Read more »
Author Archives: Wally
Apple Digital Campus Exchange
Viewed a webcast today from the Apple Digital Campus Exchange, a new community devoted to use of Apple products in Higher Ed. A quick tour around the site will reveal… Read more »
LibraryThing
Here’s a twist on social bookmarking…you go to the LibraryThing website and enter your book collection. Then others can see your collection and from that and collections of others, figure… Read more »
Port forwarding demystified
When I finally got wireless broadband at my house a few months back, I rushed over to Staples and purchased a LinkSys Wireless Router (the WRT54GS) so I could share… Read more »
Nano dissected
Of course you’ve wondered what was inside the new iPod Nano, right? Well, fortunately Ars Technica has done us the favor of reviewing one, then torture-testing it (e.g., running over… Read more »
New MARS look…
Thanks to Dorothea’s skill with a CSS chisel, we have a very new look for our MARS site. We’re now running release 1.3.1 with what I call the “Salo Effect”… Read more »
Your call is almost important enough to answer…
Doesn’t happen to cover the menu-tree maze I got caught in a week or so ago, but still a useful list of keystrokes required to “reach a real human being”… Read more »
EZproxy and MySQL living together
The other day I moved our EZProxy server application to the HP Proliant box described in an earlier post. EZProxy put such a small load on the machine I began… Read more »
IE only for FEMA Assistance
It’s not really on topic but then again maybe it is. Seems the FEMA website requires use of IE 6 in order to make a web-based request for help. Could… Read more »
Next stop…Loudoun
Haven’t seen mention of this yet on Mason’s website, but here’s a blurb from Leesburg Today: Sep 6, 2005 (LT) — After many years of discussing the idea, George Mason… Read more »