Firefox goodies

2005-12-29 Thread Ben Scott
Hi all, Time for a random You may find it useful to know... post. I use Firefox. (BTW -- Firefox 1.5 rocks. Faster and more stable, I've found.) I like Firefox a lot. I've recently come across a few things in Firefox that just really made my day. I figured I'd share. I encourage

Re: Help me avoid Exchange

2005-12-29 Thread mike shlitz
Hi, I've been following with interest the discussion re: a replacement for MS Exchange. I have been looking for a viable alternative for having an Exchange server, for some time. I am looking into Scalix (http://scalix.com/) and wondered if anyone has yet compiled a list of all the possible

Re: Firefox goodies

2005-12-29 Thread Christopher Chisholm
My favorite thing about firefox is actually a plugin for firefox called 'adblock'. It's probably the most amazing invention mankind has ever known. It allows you to right-click on any graphic and block it from being displayed. In addition, it allows you to block flash videos and other

Re: Firefox goodies

2005-12-29 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 29, 2005, at 12:24, Ben Scott wrote: / don't let web pages take over my browser // It's my fscking computer; get your grubby JavaScript off it Indeed. Check out NoScript: http://www.noscript.net/whats Last I heard DHS was recommending Firefox with NoScript as the safest browser

Re: Help me avoid Exchange

2005-12-29 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 29, 2005, at 12:36, mike shlitz wrote: I am looking into Scalix (http://scalix.com/) and wondered if anyone has yet compiled a list of all the possible FOSS alternatives avilable out there? I'm not sure about the list, but if you're compiling one, this looks pretty slick too:

Re: Firefox goodies

2005-12-29 Thread Bruce Dawson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Should we have a TipsAndTechniques web page on www.gnhlug.org? - --Bruce Bill McGonigle wrote: | On Dec 29, 2005, at 12:24, Ben Scott wrote: | | / don't let web pages take over my browser | // It's my fscking computer; get your grubby JavaScript

Re: Firefox goodies

2005-12-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: // It's my fscking computer; get your grubby JavaScript off it JavaScript can be grubby, but it also enables things like AJAX, which can be genuinely useful/neat. Anyways, my favorite two extensions are: 1: Bugmenot -- bypass compulsory web registrations.

Re: Firefox goodies

2005-12-29 Thread Michael ODonnell
Check out NoScript: http://www.noscript.net/whats Last I heard DHS was recommending Firefox with NoScript as the safest browser platform. Also in the bag-o-goodies: SessionSaver, FasterFox, CustomizeGoogle, FlashBlock. FlashBlock and AdBlock are indeed wonderful FireFox extensions, as are

Firefox security strategy (was: Firefox goodies)

2005-12-29 Thread Ben Scott
On 12/29/05, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Check out NoScript ... On 12/29/05, Kevin D. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JavaScript can be grubby, but it also enables things like AJAX, which can be genuinely useful/neat. Heh. I was wondering if this would happen. :) I'm not

GNHLUG website (was: Firefox goodies)

2005-12-29 Thread Ben Scott
On 12/29/05, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should we have a TipsAndTechniques web page on www.gnhlug.org? There's nothing keeping anyone from adding one. For those who don't know, anyone can edit the GNHLUG website, just by completing a simple registration. Anyone who feels like

Re: GNHLUG website (was: Firefox goodies)

2005-12-29 Thread Bruce Dawson
Ben Scott wrote: On 12/29/05, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should we have a TipsAndTechniques web page on www.gnhlug.org? There's nothing keeping anyone from adding one. OK. Done. --Bruce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Firefox security strategy (was: Firefox goodies)

2005-12-29 Thread Ben Scott
On 12/29/05, Kevin D. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JavaScript should have been designed ... such that it doesn't even have the capability to do risky things. To me, you just described Java, but that's another thing entirely. To some extent, but not completely. Certainly, at one point in

Re: Firefox security strategy (was: Firefox goodies)

2005-12-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: To some extent, but not completely. Certainly, at one point in it's history, Java was being sold as an ideal sandbox for things like client-side intelligence in web pages.[1] However, it was still designed around the idea of a general-purpose programming language which

Re: Firefox security strategy (was: Firefox goodies)

2005-12-29 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 29, 2005, at 16:04, Ben Scott wrote: Then again, I don't really *know* anything about Firefox's internals; I've just read blurbs and articles here and there. Maybe most of what I want is already there. Firefox does have some limitations on JavaScript. For instance, I recently read

Re: Help me avoid Exchange

2005-12-29 Thread Thomas Charron
Below are devils advocate responses. Becouse while I agree on many of them, there comes a point when 'D00d, Exhang3 1z sux0rs!' may need a little check.. ;-) On 12/23/05, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Issues with Exchange I can think of, off the top of my head:a) The aforementioned backups

Re: Help me avoid Exchange

2005-12-29 Thread Thomas Charron
On 12/22/05, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to come up with (currently) valid reasons why it's a bad ideato move engineering over to an Exchange-based IMAP server from a linux/cyrus-based IMAP server.So, I'm asking for help from those ofyou who have current, relevant experience with

Re: Firefox security strategy (was: Firefox goodies)

2005-12-29 Thread Thomas Charron
On 12/29/05, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: catastrophic bug.Guess which one has a zero-day exploit today for thesame thing that was supposedly patched in the past few months? Oh! Oh! I Know! FIREFOX! http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20051212.fireburn.php

Follow-up: Red Hat / Fedora dual boot

2005-12-29 Thread Zhao Peng
Hi, I'm back to bug you guys on this thread. (BTW, It's very likely that I may use some terms incorrectly, due to my unfamiliarity with linux. Sorry about that. :) ) In case you may forget, let me repeat my situation: only 1 hard drive, and only RedHat Enterprise installed on it, and no

Re: Help me avoid Exchange

2005-12-29 Thread Ben Scott
On 12/29/05, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g) If the load issue is enough to justify a separate Exchange server, then add another Windows Server licensing cost. Unless, of course, someone has an MSDN subscription.. I'm not sure, but I think the MSDN license does not permit