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I keep getting the java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: getProxyConfigURL error when trying to view certain pages with embedded java apps – ie http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/ and http://visualroute.visualware.com/ This was happening under 10.3 and I had hoped that the upgrade to 10.4 (Tiger) would resolve it.…
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Firefox running slow on Tiger?
One conclusion I am quickly coming to from using Tiger this morning is that Firefox (v. 1.03) seems to be running slower on Tiger than it was on Panther (OS X 10.3). Maybe (hopefully!) it is just me! I’ll keep…
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Tiger install update
In an update to my previous post on my install of Tiger here are a few more of my observations. After leaving the PowerBook running overnight, and re-starting it this morning it is now running at ‘normal speed’ again. That…
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Tiger successfully installed
Well Tiger arrived yesterday (Thursday) and after backing up my PowerBook I set about the installation. The upgrade proceeded without any hitches. The PowerBook is now noticably slower after re-starting but I am putting that down to Spotlight indexing the…
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Safari passes the Acid2 test
Acid2 is a page created by webstandards.org to test the web standards’ compliance of browsers as reported here on the 15th. David Hyatt, a Safari developer, is reporting that Safari is now passing the Acid2 test. If this is so,…
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Effectively marketing business blogs
You can significantly mitigate the costs of marketing your blog with some careful (ethical) SEO (search engine optimisation) tactics. Primary among these is to have a blog which is web standards compliant. Search engines love standards compliance – to this…
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Google Page Rank updated infrequently
Google (and the other major search engines) visits this site at least once a day and index the content. However, on the 12th of March this year I moved my blog from the old domain (tomandpilar.net) to this site and…
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Scoble biting the hand that feeds?
There’s an interesting debate happening on Robert Scoble’s blog. The debate is interesting, not because of the subject matter itself, per se, but rather because it seems to indicate that a seed change is happening in the blogosphere. Background: Last…
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