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Don’t know how long this site will be available but if you type in a URL, it’ll show a screen capture of what the site looks like in Safari 2.0 or IE 5.2.3 or Mozillas 1.7.7.

Got this info from this article on digg.

Desktop Pipeline reports in this article that Firefox is vulnerable to a bug that was first reported back in 1998. There’s no word on that site when the bug will be fixed but they report that the problem can be circumvented if you close all other Firefox windows (and, assumedly, tabs) before opening a window to a secure site.

Here’s what I currently run:

Adblock 0.5.2.039
Clone Window 0.2.5
Ext2Abc 0.2.1
FlashGot 0.5.9.4
FLST 0.8.3
Greasemonkey 0.3.3
ieview 0.86
Image Zoom 0.1.7
LastTab 1.1
ListZilla 0.5.1
LiveLines 0.4.3
Minimize to Tray 0.0.1.20050212
MiniT+ 20050216.4
NoScript 1.0.7
Preferential 0.7
SessionSaver .2 0.2.1.027
Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.5
undoclosetab 20041125.5
User Agent Switcher 0.6.6
xMirror 0.2

Nicely done page listing tips for Firefox as well as links to extensions and other tips is Scott Kingery’s Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks page.

Moox maintains a suite of builds of both Firefox and Thunderbird that are optimized for various processor types.

It’s intended to be a how-to article on sending through and fetching email from GMail but this article from Freshmeat.net gives a good tutorial on setting up fetchmail and postfix.

The Windows Secrets newsletter has a really good column by Brian Livingston in this month’s issue that explains why we/you need wireless security and discusses various forms of protection. It’s kinda long but informative, nonetheless.

BTW, the article contains this link to a WinGuides.com site that has a pretty decent password generator.

Check out this article from Tom’s Networking and, if you’re using WEP, run, don’t walk, to WPA.

Cooperative Linux is an open source project (on SourceForge) that lets you run Linux “alongside” Windows without using things like VMware or VirtualPC. No, it’s not a Cygwin clone — you actually run the Linux kernel AND Windows XP. It’s been around for a while but I just found out about it.

This article lists 249 (or close to 249) “cool” hostnames using the various TLDs around. Examples? Sure, how about

mous.ep.ad (Andorra)
rut.aba.ga (Gabon)
spot.lig.ht (Haiti)
com.puser.ve (Venezuela)
del.icio.us (United States)