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Archive of entries posted on December 2008

DocPreview – browser plug-in to view Microsoft Word documents in Safari

Posted by yiming on 25 December 2008, 6:45 pm

UPDATE: As of early 2009, Schubert|IT’s Word Browser Plugin has been made a Universal binary. Therefore, DocPreview is no longer needed, as I originally wrote this plugin to fill in the gap when Word Browser Plugin was PPC-only. Word Browser Plugin offers a more advanced user interface than DocPreview. You should try [...]

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Change IP address via (ab)use of DHCP client id

Posted by yiming on 25 December 2008, 12:58 pm

Nowadays customers using cable modems tend to be re-assigned the same IP address once they get one. This is apparently done based on the client MAC address — unless that IP was already taken from the pool when the client connects, the DHCP server will tend to re-issue the old IP. Fairly nice, [...]

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Bad Google cookie kills Safari

Posted by yiming on 11 December 2008, 8:10 pm

In a bizarre case of digital food poisoning, I experienced a series of mysterious, persistent, reproducible crashes with Safari 3.2.1 this morning, traceable to a bad Google cookie.
The symptoms
Google has a nifty query suggestion feature that is turned on by default on its homepage search box. Whenever I typed in a phrase query [...]

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