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Portable Firefox

Paul Westbrook | 19 September, 2005 19:32

Firefox-LogoThis is pretty cool.  This page has a post for a Mac & PC Cross-platform Portable Firefox.  I have installed this on my iPod Shuffle.  And I am able to launch Firefox on my PowerBook and my Windows PC, with the same settings.

I do wonder about a couple of things:

  1. How will upgrades of Firefox work?  Will it be possible to install just the binary, and not loose the settings?
  2. I need to find a way that I can sync my settings from my Firefox install on my PowerBook.  I do not want to always run Firefox from a thumb drive, when I wouldn't need to .

[via MacSlash, TUAW]

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Bug with Auto-Locking keychain

Paul Westbrook | 19 September, 2005 15:48

I think that there is a bug with auto-locking my keychain in Mac OS X 10.4.  I wanted to automatically lock my keychain, so my laptop would ask for my authorization in order to get a password out of the keychain.  This is in addition to my current setting where I get asked for my password when the screen saver dismisses.

When I enable it, I do get asked for my authorization when an application wants to get a password from the keychain.  The problem is when the screen saver is activated on my laptop.  When I try to wake my computer up from the screen saver, the password dialog doesn't appear.  I have to restart the computer in order to use it. 

This problem goes away when I disable the auto-locking of my keychain.

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script to upgrade clamAV

Paul Westbrook | 19 September, 2005 11:54

I wrote this script to automatically upgrade my ClamAV installation. I have to run some hoops, as I run clamAV though amavisd-new. 

#!/bin/bash
 
tar -zxvf clamav-*.tar.gz
rm clamav-*.tar.gz
cd clamav-*
./configure
make
make check
sudo /etc/init.d/amavisd stop
sudo make install
sudo chown -R amavisd:amavisd /usr/local/share/clamav
sudo /usr/local/bin/freshclam -l /var/log/clam-update.log
sudo /etc/init.d/amavisd start
rm -rf clamav-*

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