July 2008
4 posts
Click and Hold Menus in Firefox (OS X)
New Firefox, same problem. You see a link in the browser, you click your mouse button and hold it, expecting to see a context menu (what Windows or Linux users would see with a right-click), and nothing happens.
This is frustrating, because thanks to the infinite wisdom of Jobs, many Macs have only one mouse button. Once again, the good people at Mozilla have ignored a fundamental feature of the...
Installing EC2 AMI bundling tools in Debian
I recently rebundled my EC2 Debian image and, unlike the first time when I bundled from an existing public image, this time I wanted to do it from within my own image. (See the EC2 Getting Started Guide for background and howto.)
In order to do this, you need to install the AMI Bundling Tools, which Amazon helpfully (not!) provides in an RPM format. Despite rumors to the contrary, you don’t...
Why Google Shouldn't Index Flash
Apropos Adobe’s latest PR gimmick, Robert Hansen asks, how happy are you going to be when Google sends you to some complex Flash movie as the result of a web search? How do you feel when you see PDFs or PowerPoints in the results right now? I routinely skip over them as “more trouble than they are worth”.
If the information you are looking for is buried in a Flash movie, there...