Monthly Archives: March 2008

Daily-Weekly Finds #6

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  • Reg Scanner, looks like a great tool for finding stuff in the Registry. It’s discussed here.
  • Verizon is finally getting the Curve (via engadget), I bet they still dick it up and cripple it.
  • A lot of web sites now show you your approximate password strength when you sign up or change it. Passwordmeter.com now lets you see the rules and get a reading.
  • New/Enhanced Exchange Public folder Wisdom at “You had me at EHlO“

CDW Post Card

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I received a post card/mailing from CDW today.  A co-op advertisement for SONICWALL and WebSense.

It shows the obligatory IT Manager with head in hands.

The text:

IRONY:

The folks who stand to lose the most from a security breach are the same ones who hesitate to fund a solution.

We currently use both of these products.  Sonicwall email security (formerly MailFrontier) works pretty well.  Websense? Well, it *mostly* works.  For a 6.x product it’s still missing a number of features.  The add however hits home.

Firefox bookmarks toolbar broken…

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This started for me somewhere around Firefox 2.0.0.10 ish and it’s really annoying.

When Firefox is first launched, the initial window is fine. I have my bookmarks toolbar:

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Any new window I create (and I do use multiple windows regardless of tabbed browsing), the bookmarks toolbar goes blank…

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It doesn’t seem related to any plugins that I’m aware of. I’ve tried disabling most. I can’t imagine that it’s an actual bookmark in this folder but it could be.

Has anyone else seen this?

 

Edit/Update: This appears to be directly caused by or related to the use of Automated QA’s Test Complete Add/On:

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Disabling this puppy and my problems go away.