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So, I've migrated back to Firefox 1.0.7 from Firefox 1.5. Firefox 1.5 (aka "Deer Park") was too slow on my Linux laptop, which is a pretty small machine; it used (I might say abused) the canvas widget far too often, resulting in that last layer of abstraction that slows everything down to a crawl.

I also think my Palm V/m500 has finally started to show its age. Despite being reliable for the past five years, it has now crashed seemingly at random, taking all of its data with it. I'm now doing daily backups in the hopes I don't lose anything.

And I installed DOSEmu on my desktop. Is doing a full-blown emulation of an x386 with SVGA and SoundBlaster really the best way to provide access to ancient games like Powermonger and Dark Forces? I mean, other than actually running DOS, which would be, um, archaic.

Current Mood: annoyed

John C. Dvorak (yes, him), writes:

I use a utility called Prevx [link: www.prevx.com], a host-intrusion protection system, as well as one or two other antispyware packages to keep the stuff at bay. And it still sneaks in once in a while. Most recently, I forgot to turn off my CUTEftp client and left it running all night. In the morning some system had loaded some weird software called "active skin," and I had to use SpySubtract to remove 26 Registry entries. Exactly how anything manages to worm in through the open port and place items in the Registry is beyond me, but it happens all the time.

Emphasis mine.

Great Caesar's ghost, John, when are you gonna finally buy a Mac?